152 Pages
by CRC Press

152 Pages
by CRC Press

152 Pages
by CRC Press

Parasitology provides all the basic principles of this increasingly studied subject, emphasised by specific, but important examples rather than covering organisms of just one particular group. It is ideally suited to the new modular/semester system now used by most universities and is laid out in the form of `notes' (rather than detailed descriptions), accompanied by simple flow charts and... Read more
1. Introduction to parasitology 2. Biology of parasites 3. Life-cycles and methods of invasion of hosts 4. Development and maturation of the parasite 5. The effect upon the host 6. Host response 7. Methods of escape from the host 8. Distribution and epidemiology of the parasites

Biography

Jack Chernin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Portsmouth, UK.