Advances in Parasitology

by Elsevier Science

Overview

From the Reviews of Previous Volumes
"In reviewing this volume as a whole, one is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing."
-PARASITOLOGY
"The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers."
-ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080580791
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/07/1993
Series:	ISSN , #33
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	299
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Professor David Rollinson is a Merit Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he leads a research team in the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for schistosomiasis. He has had a long fascination with parasites and the diseases that they cause, this has involved him in many overseas projects especially in Africa. He is on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of parasitic diseases, the editor of Advances in Parasitology and a former President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. His research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, which combines detailed molecular studies in the laboratory with ongoing collaborative studies in endemic areas of disease, to explore the intriguing world of parasites in order to help control and eliminate parasitic diseases.

Table of Contents

J. Pepin and F. Milord, The Treatment of Human African Trypanosomiasis.
I. Landau and A. Chabaud, Plasmodium Species Infecting Thamnomys rutilans: A Zoological Study.
B. Fried, Metacercarial Excystment of Trematodes.
K. Rohde, The Minor Groups of Parasitic Platyhelminthes.
I. Burgess, Sarcoptes scabiei and Scabies.
Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE SERIES "One is struck by the quality and scholarship of the various chapters and the obviously efficient editing." —PARASITOLOGY

"The policy of the editors of Advances in Parasitology to include reviews from any aspect of parasitology and the high standard of individual papers have resulted in this series of volumes becoming an indispensable source for students, teachers, and research workers." —ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY

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