xx, 549 pages : 29 cm

This textbook in parasitology incorporates the spectacular advances in biological sciences within recent years. It presents students and research workers with a broad approach to the morphology, ultrastructure, speciation, life cycles, biochemistry, in vitro culture and immunology of parasitology

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Parasitism: what is a parasite -- Niches, habitats and environments -- Protozoa: the amoebae -- Flagellates: intestinal and related forms -- Haemoflagellates -- Sporozoea: gregarines and coccidia -- Sporozoea: haemosporina: malaria; basic biology -- Sporozoea: malaria in man and the animal kingdom -- Sporozoea: haemosporina other than plasmodia; piroplasmia -- Opalinata and ciliophora -- Helminth parasites: platyhelminthes: monogenea -- Trematoda: aspidogastrea -- Trematoda: digenea -- Digenea: bucephalidae, fasciolidae, opisthorchiidae, dicrocoeliidae

Digenea: plagiorchiidae, echinostomatidae, heterophyidae, trogylotrematidae -- Digenea: schistosomatidae -- Digenea: strigeidae, diplostomatidae, paramphistomatidae -- Physiology of trematodes -- Cestoda: cestodaria -- Eucestoda: general account -- Eucestoda: minor orders -- Eucestoda: pseudophyllidea -- Eucestoda: cyclophyllidea -- Physiology of cestodes -- Nematoda: general account -- Aphasmid nematoda -- Phasmid nematoda: rhabditida, ascaridida and oxyurida -- Phasmid nematoda: strongylida -- Phasmid nematoda: spirurida -- Physiology of nematodes

Acanthocephala -- Immunoparasitology -- In vitro cultivation of endoparasites: general principles; protozoa -- In vitro cultivation of endoparasites: helminthes