People, parasites, and plowshares : learning from our body's most terrifying invaders /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2013.
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Table of 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?.