Offers a parasitology text for biology and/or zoology students at the undergraduate level. This title emphasizes principles with related information on the biology, physiology, morphology, and ecology of the major parasites of humans and domestic animals.

This is a parasitology text for biology and/or zoology students at the undergraduate level. It emphasizes principles with related information on the biology, physiology, morphology, and ecology of the major parasites of humans and domestic animals. This is not a diagnostic manual for medical students.

1 Introduction to Parasitolog 2 Basic Principles and Concepts I: Parasite Ecology and Evolution
3 Basic Principles and Concepts II: Immunology and Pathology
4 Parasitic Prototoa: Form, Function, and Classification
5 Kinetoplasta: Trypanosomes and their Kin
6 Other Flagellated Protozoa
7 The Amebas
8 Phylum Apicomplexa: Gregarines, Coccidia, and Related Organisms
9 Phylum Apicomplexa: Malaria Organisms and Piroplasms
10 Phylum Ciliophora: Ciliated Protistan Parasites
11 Phyla Microspora and Myxozoa: Parasites with Polar Filaments
12 The Mesozoa: Pioneers or Degenerates?
13 Introduction to the Phylum Platyhelminthes
14 Trematoda: Aspidobothrea
15 Trematoda: Form, Function, and Classification of Digeneans
16 Digeneans: Strigeiformes
17 Digeneans: Echinostomatiformes and Paramphistomiformes
18 Digeneans: Plagiorchiformesand Opisthorchiformes
19 Monogenea
20 Cestoidea: Form, Function, and Classification of the Tapeworms
21 Tapeworms
22 Phylum Nematoda: Form, Function, and Classification
23 Nematodes: Trichurida and Dioctophymatida, Enoplean Parasites
24 Nematodes: Rhabditida, Pioneering Parasites
25 Nematodes: Strongylida, Bursate Rhabditians
26 Nematodes: Ascaridida, Intestinal Large Roundworms
27 Nematodes: Oxyurida, the Pinworms
28 Nematodes: Spirurida, A Potpourri
29 Nematodes: Filaroidea, the Filarial Worms
30 Nematodes: Camallanina, the Guinea Worms and Others
31 Phylum Acanthocephala: Thorny-Headed Worms
32 Phylum Pentastomida: Tongue Worms
33 Phylum Arthropoda: Form, Function, and Classification
34 Parasitic Crustaceans
35 Parasitic Insects: Mallophaga and Anoplura, the Lice
36 Parasitic Insects: Hemiptera, the Bugs
37 Parasitic Insects: Siphonaptera, the Fleas
38 Parasitic Insects: Diptera, the Flies
39 Parasitic Insects: Strepsiptera, Hymenoptera, and Others
40 Parasitic Archnids: Subclass Acri, the Ticks and Mites