Medical Parasitology

Parasites and parasitic morbidity and/or disease seem to be a birth right of the tropics. This is a sequel to greater biodiversity fragmented in relation to biogeography and climatic shifts congenial to nocturnal enemies of humans like mosquitoes. At the base of parasitic diseases man has recognized a dichotomy namely animal diseases and diseases of man but there may be links between humans and animal (zoonoses).We are just begining to understand what is known as zoonoses. India can now boast of being free of smallpox and plague but bad hygienic conditions are not allowing the control of malaria dengue filaria typhoid leprosy etc. The aim of the present books is to provide a brief but reasonably comprehensive information to the medical student as well as students of medical laboratory techniques. To be a comprehensive parasitologist of some worth and meaning the present book has been designed. Equal emphasis is given to microbes and the protozoan and metazoan parasites.