Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses Fish and Plant-Borne Parasites /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Murrell, K. Darwin (Editor), Fried, Bernard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: World Class Parasites, 11
• Subjects: Medicine.; Parasitology.; Virology.; Food > Biotechnology.; Public health.; Infectious diseases.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Public Health.; Infectious Diseases.; Food Science.

The food-borne parasites discussed in this book are infections of animals which are transmissible to humans and constitute an important component of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (The World Health Organization). The increasing recognition of the public health significance of these zoonoses, their...

Table of Contents:

• Fish- and Invertebrate-Borne Parasites
• Liver Flukes
• Intestinal Flukes
• Paragonimiasis
• Diphyllobothriasis: The Diphyllobothrium latumHuman Infection Conundrum and Reconciliation with a Worldwide Zoonosis
• Anisakid Nematodes and Anisakiasis
• Capillariasis
• Gnathostomiasis
• Angiostrongyliasis
• Plant-Borne Parasites
• Plant-Borne Trematode Zoonoses: Fascioliasis and Fasciolopsiasis
• General Aspects of Infection
• Immunology of the Infection
• Molecular Epidemiology of Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses.