Synopses & Reviews
Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition provides easy access to pertinent information on parasite life cycles, importance, location in host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters are organized by animal host species, including laboratory animals, humans, llamas, ratites, dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, and birds, as well as reptiles, wildlife, and marine animals, often missing from veterinary parasitology textbooks, but of practical interest to veterinarians.
The manual includes step-by-step instructions for the most common diagnostic procedures used in routine veterinary practice.
Features of the Fifth Edition include:
Updated and enhanced references Information on new drugs Improved parasites of marine mammals section Sections on laboratory animal parasites and human parasites Over 500 photographs and figures Foreyt underscores the strong relationship between parasites and the overall health of animals and stresses that indiscriminate use of drugs is a poor substitute for good management and nutrition in controlling parasites. The text also offers insights into the evolving relationships between hosts and parasites.
Wildlife and zoo workers, veterinary practitioners, students, and technicians will find this to be a readable and accurate resource of information about parasites in a variety of animals—wild, domestic, common and exotic.
Synopsis
-- Contains information needed regularly (life cycles, importance, location in host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, treatment) about internal and external parasites of a variety of animals -- wild and domestic, common and exotic
-- Features 326 photographs and drawings and numerous tables
-- Covers dogs, cats, cattle, sheep, goats, Ilamas, horses, pigs, birds, ratites, laboratory animals, and select parasites of wildlife, marine mammals, and reptiles
Synopsis
Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition provides easy access to pertinent information on parasite life cycles, importance, location in host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters are organized by animal host species, including laboratory animals, humans, llamas, ratites, dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, and birds, as well as reptiles, wildlife, and marine animals, often missing from veterinary parasitology textbooks, but of practical interest to veterinarians.The manual includes step-by-step instructions for the most common diagnostic procedures used in routine veterinary practice.Features of the Fifth Edition include: Updated and enhanced referencesInformation on new drugsImproved parasites of marine mammals sectionSections on laboratory animal parasites and human parasitesOver 500 photographs and figuresForeyt underscores the strong relationship between parasites and the overall health of animals and stresses that indiscriminate use of drugs is a poor substitute for good management and nutrition in controlling parasites. The text also offers insights into the evolving relationships between hosts and parasites.Wildlife and zoo workers, veterinary practitioners, students, and technicians will find this to be a readable and accurate resource of information about parasites in a variety of animals -wild, domestic, common and exotic.
Synopsis
Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition is a practical, thorough, bench top reference for basic diagnostic veterinary parasitology. The manual provides pertinent information on parasite life cyles, importance, location in the host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, and treatment. It also includes step-by-step instructions for the most common diagnostic procedures used in routine veterinary practice.
Sections are organized by animal host species, including dogs; cats; cattle, sheep and goats; llamas; horses; pigs; birds; ratites (ostriches, emus, and cassowaries); and laboratory animals, as well as wildlife, reptiles, marine mammals, and humans. There is a section in which common artifacts found in fecal samples are presented, and the last section includes conversion tables and a list of abbreviations.
Features of the Fifth edition include:
* updated and enhanced references
* information on new drugs
* improved section on parasites of marine mammals
* sections on parasites of laboratory animals and humans
* over 500 photographs and figures
Readers will find this to be an easily accessible and accurate resource for information about parasites in a variety of animals - wild, domestic, common and exotic.
About the Author
William J. Foreyt is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman. Dr. Foreyt specializes in veterinary and wildlife parasitology, epizootiology, and parasitic and disease interactions among domestic livestock, wildlife and humans
Table of Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
Section 1. Diagnostic Parasitology.
Section 2. General Parasitology.
Section 3. Parasites of Dogs.
Section 4. Parasites of Cats.
Section 5. Parasites of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats.
Section 6. Parasites of Llamas.
Section 7. Parasites of Horses.
Section 8. Parasites of Pigs.
Section 9. Parasites of Birds.
Section 10. Parasites of Ratites (Ostriches, Emus, and Cassowaries).
Section 11. Parasites of Laboratory Animals.
Section 12. Parasites of Wildlife.
Section 13. Parasites of Wildlife.
Section 13. Parasites of Marine Mammals.
Section 14. Parasites of Reptiles.
Section 15. Parasites of Humans.
Section 16. Common Artifacts in Feces.
Section 17. Tables.
Index.