Zoonoses: Parasitic and Mycotic Diseases

by Garg, Sudhi Ranjan

ISBN: 9789351302292
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2021
Price : Rs. 10995.00
Biblio : xiv+296p.,col.,plts.,figs.,tabls.,ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Sudhi Ranjan Garg is a senior Professor of Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology in the College of Veterinary Sciences, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Hisar (India). He has also worked as Head of the Department. Dr. Garg completed his Master of Veterinary Sciences in Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology in 1982. He was later awarded Russian Government Scholarship for doctoral studies and obtained Ph.D. from the prestigious All-Russian Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine in Moscow in 1991. <BR> Dr. Garg has over 30 years of experience of extensive graduate and postgraduate teaching and research on zoonotic diseases. Dr. Garg is currently engaged in propagating the ‘One Health’ concept in the region.

About The Book

Zoonotic diseases include a vast variety of infections that can be transmitted from vertebrate animals to human beings and vice versa directly or through vectors, water, food, or environmental sources. Parasites and mycotic agents constitute a large group of such pathogens that affect millions of people worldwide. Due to their ubiquitous nature, these pose a serious threat to public health, particularly in the developing countries because of inadequate public health and sanitation infrastructure. <BR> The present book “Zoonoses: Parasitic and Mycotic Diseases” elaborates the public and livestock health implications of important zoonotic helminthic, protozoan and fungal pathogens particularly in context with the developing countries. Detailed descriptions coupled with beautifully presented illustrations in the book provide excellent comprehension of these diseases and the associated human-animal-pathogen-environment interactions in a simple and interesting manner. The students teachers, public health professionals, veterinary practitioners and planners will find the book very useful in understanding the dynamics of parasitic and mycotic zoonoses and in evolving intervention strategies for their prevention, control and elimination.

Table of Contents

Preface vii <BR> List of Contributors xi <BR> 1. Taeniasis and Cysticercosis 1 <BR> 2. Echinococcosis 23 <BR> 3. Diphyllobothriasis 49 <BR> 4. Trichinellosis 62 <BR> 5. Dracunculiasis 86 <BR> 6. Fasciolosis 95 <BR> 7. Schistosomiasis 121 <BR> 8. Leishmaniases 134 <BR> 9. Toxoplasmosis 148 <BR> 10. Trypanosomosis 177 <BR> 11. Babesiosis 207 <BR> 12. Cryptosporidiosis 224 <BR> 13. Sarcocystosis 235 <BR> 14. Pentastomosis, Myiasis, Tungaosis, Scabies and Dermatitis 251 <BR> 15. Mycotic Zoonoses 277 <BR> Index 291