Covers human medical parasitology and provides comprehensive, relevant diagnostic methods in comprehensive tome.

• Presents complete information on individual parasites and provides information related to life cycles, morphology, disease presentations in the immunocompetent and compromised patient, diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, and prevention.
• Offers clear and complete diagnostic procedures for use in the clinical microbiology laboratory, describing traditional and rapid techniques used for parasite detection and identification.
• Reviews more than 3,000 papers published since the previous edition.
• Offers a brand-new section containing medical case histories.