Parasitology and Vector Biology - Hardcover

Marquardt, William H.; Demaree, Richard S.; Grieve, Robert B.

9780124732759: Parasitology and Vector Biology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0124732755 ISBN 13: 9780124732759

Publisher: Academic Press, 1999

Parasitology and Vector Biology, Second Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to human and animal parasitology. It provides basic information on the biologies of such agents as protists, worms, and arthropods, but it also emphasizes how control programs can be structured in a sociological, political, and economic milieu. Students and researchers alike will appreciate the added coverage of the molecular aspects of parasitology in this new edition.

* Includes more than 400 photos and drawings
* Contains sidebars that discuss various aspects of parasitic disease
* Discusses the real-world control of parasitic diseases, within biological, social, and economic contexts
* Offers an expanded discussion of vector biology
* Includes an extensive glossary
* Consistent, logical organization allows the student ready access to important material

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Review:

"The book is very well written...There is a complete glossary and the index is well done. The line drawings are excellent. ...these authors have many decades of collective experience in the teaching of parasitology and research, and I think it shows in what they have attempted to do in writing this volume. They have done a very good job."
—Gerald W. Esch, Wake Forset University, for AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGISTS (2001)

About the Author:

William C. Marquardt is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, where he has been affiliated since 1966. Professor Marquardt received his Ph.d. from the University of Illinois, Urbana in 1954. He was a member of the Center of Zoonoses Research at the Unversity of Illinois from 1962-66 and Associate Director of the Arthropod-Borne and Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Colorado State University from 1987 to 1995. His publications include approximately 75 refereed papers in periodicals, four books, as well as book reviews and chapters.

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