• Written as per the latest curriculum of MBBS and MD (Microbiology) • Rearranges all the chapters in as sequential format and thoroughly updated and expanded to include new data • Adds the recent advances in each topic such as vaccine trials in Leishmania and Malaria, drug resistance in malaria. The new and fresh look reinvigorates the reading experience • Includes many new ph…
Parasitism is a widespread phenomenon in nature. The number of species of parasitic animals is about 7 % of the total number of animal species. The first scientific definition of the phenomenon of parasitism was given by R. Leucart in 1879. Parasitism is defined as a form of coexistence of organisms of different species, in which one organism (parasite) uses another (host) as a source of food a…
Contemporary British parasitologist Frank Cox has explored how the question of what parasitology is has shaped the history of the discipline. Given that the parasitic lifestyle is common to helminths, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, fungi, parasitoid insects, some plants like mistletoe, and even birds like cuckoos, there is—and has historically been—a need to narrow down the subject …