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A comprehensive account of protozoan and metozoan diseases in modern clinical practice, with orientation towards clinical management of parasitic infections. In the past, parasitology was considered as an obscure subject of little relevance to the majority of clinicians and microbiologists. Over the last decade, however, much has happened to change this, not least the explosion in foreign travel This textbook is the forth in the Principles and Practice series, providing an expansive and detailed coverage of clinical microbiology. It has a similar appeal to that of Zuckerman's, Principles & Practice of Clinical Virology, with an international authorship and emphasis placed on integrating new knowledge in a clinically relevant manner. . An essential, up-to-date sourcebook on the fundamentals of human parasitology . Provides a global approach with renowned and international authorship . Completes the quartet of Principles and Practice series in Microbiology

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Author:   Stephen H. Gillespie (Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free and University College Hospital Medical School, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK) ,  Richard D. Pearson (University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, 300 Park Place, MR4 Buildings, Room 2115, Charlottesville, V A 22908, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.588kg
ISBN:  

9780471977292

ISBN 10:   0471977292
Pages:   752
Publication Date:   25 October 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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a vital sourcebook (Medical Laboratory World, January 2002) ...this is an excellent book... (Microbiology Today, August 2002) ...a good book with some excellent chapters... (Tropical Doctor, October 2002)

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Stephen Gillespie Professor of Microbiology and Regional Microbiologist, Royal Free and University College School of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. Richard D. Pearson is the editor of Principles and Practice of Clinical Parasitology, published by Wiley.

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