People, parasites, and plowshares : learning from our body's most terrifying invaders / Dickson D. Despommier ; foreword by William C. Campbell.

By: Despommier, Dickson DMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780231535267Subject(s): Host-parasite relationships -- Popular works | Medical parasitology -- Popular works | Parasites -- Popular works | ParasitologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: People, parasites, and plowshares : learning from our body's most terrifying invaders.DDC classification: 578.6/5 LOC classification: QL757 | .D47 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
This new house : Trichinella spiralis -- Hooked on parasites : Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus -- Houdini's nefarious cousins : the trypanosomes, the schistosomes, and the lymphatic filariae -- A parasite for all seasons : Toxoplasma gondii -- The unholy trinity : Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the hookworms -- The long and the short of it : tapeworms - Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Echinococcus granulosus, and Echinococcus multilocularis -- All's well that ends well : Dracunculus medinensis -- Nature has all the answers. What's your question?.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-201) and index.

This new house : Trichinella spiralis -- Hooked on parasites : Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus -- Houdini's nefarious cousins : the trypanosomes, the schistosomes, and the lymphatic filariae -- A parasite for all seasons : Toxoplasma gondii -- The unholy trinity : Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and the hookworms -- The long and the short of it : tapeworms - Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Echinococcus granulosus, and Echinococcus multilocularis -- All's well that ends well : Dracunculus medinensis -- Nature has all the answers. What's your question?.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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