Digenetic Trematodes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Toledo, Rafael (Editor), Fried, Bernard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 766
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Vaccines.; Parasitology.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Vaccine.

Digenetic trematodes constitute a major helminth group that parasitize humans and animals, and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The diseases caused by trematodes have been neglected for years, especially as compared with other parasitic diseases. However, the geographical limits and the...

Table of Contents:

• Form and Function in the Digenea
• The Systematics of the Trematoda
• Schistosomiasis
• Fascioliasis
• Paragonimiasis
• Liver Flukes
• Intestinal Trematode Infections
• Epidemiology of Trematode Infections
• Diagnosis of Human Trematode Infections
• Schistosomatidae and Diplostomidea
• Amphistomes
• Dicrocoeliidae Family
• Selected Wildlife Trematodiasis.