Description
We enthusiastically present the eighth edition of this book with numerous updates on topics of vigorous contemporary research. We continue to preserve essential qualities of the text that students and professors liked in the first seven editions. The reception accorded Foundations of Parasitology has been most gratifying. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Keep them coming.
SCOPE OF THIS BOOK
This textbook is designed especially for upper-division courses in general parasitology. It emphasizes principles, illustrating them with material on the biology, physiology, morphology, and ecology of the major parasites of humans and domestic animals. We have found that these are of most interest to the majority of students. Other parasites are included as well, when they are of unusual biological interest.
The first three chapters delineate important definitions and principles in evolution, ecology, immunology, and pathology of parasites and parasitic infections. Chapters on specific groups follow, beginning with protozoa and ending with arthropods. Presentation of each group is not predicated on students having first studied groups presented in prior chapters; therefore, the order can vary as an instructor desires. As always we have strived for readability, enhancing words with photographs, drawings, electron micrographs, and tables.