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Dickson D. Despommier
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College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
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Robert W. Gwadz
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Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
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Peter J. Hotez
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Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Nematodes
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 2-6
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Pages 6-11
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Pages 11-17
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Pages 17-24
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 25-32
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Pages 32-40
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 40-47
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 47-53
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Pages 53-57
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Pages 57-61
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 61-70
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Pages 71-74
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Cestodes
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 76-80
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 81-84
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 84-89
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- Dickson D. Despommier, Robert W. Gwadz, Peter J. Hotez
Pages 89-100
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Pages 100-106
About this book
Worldwide, the numbers of people suffering and dying from parasitic diseases are overwhelming, with more than 100 million cases and 1 million deaths each year from malaria alone. Despite the magnitude of the problem and the importance of the parasites that cause opportunistic infections among persons with HIV/AIDS, medical schools in the United States, Canada, and other developed countries consistently reduce the amount of time spent on parasitic diseases in the curricu lum. As a result most medical students receive limited information about these diseases, and are inadequately prepared to diagnose or treat them as physicians. This problem is too large to be resolved within the time available for parasitology in the medical school curriculum; at most, students can be acquainted with the salient features of the medically important parasites. Likewise, the traditional isolation of parasitology from the rest of the curriculum (consistent with its exclu sion from most microbiology texts) is another unresolved problem. In my opinion, this is why most physicians are unable to think about the differential diagnosis of parasitic diseases in the same way that they routinely balance the probabilities of malignancy, cardiovascular, renal, and pulmonary disease vs other infectious diseases. To resolve these problems, relevant paradigms from parasitology must be used in the teaching of cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and immu nology.
Authors and Affiliations
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College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA
Dickson D. Despommier
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Laboratory of Malaria Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Robert W. Gwadz
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Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Peter J. Hotez