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- Both a textbook for students and reference work for veterinarians, pharmacists, laboratory staff, pet and livestock owners
- Richly illustrated throughout in full color
- Features lifecycle illustrations and SEM and TEM micrographs
- Provides a list of parasiticides (antiparasitics) for veterinary use
- Includes 100 questions for testing reader comprehension
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This textbook focuses on the most important parasites affecting dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, rabbits, rodents, birds, fishes, reptiles and bees. For each parasite, the book offers a concise summary including its distribution, epidemiology, lifecycle, morphology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, prophylaxis and therapeutic measures. Numerous informative tables and more than 500 color micrographs and schemes present the most important aspects of the parasites, their induced diseases and the latest information on suitable prevention and control measures. 100 questions at the end of the book offer readers the chance to test their comprehension. The book is well suited as both a textbook and a reference guide for veterinarians, students of the veterinary and life sciences, veterinarian nurses, laboratory staff, and pet and livestock owners.
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Book Title: Animal Parasites
Book Subtitle: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention
Authors: Heinz Mehlhorn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46403-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46402-2Published: 15 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83512-9Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46403-9Published: 01 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 719
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 411 illustrations in colour
Topics: Parasitology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Zoology, Public Health, Medical Microbiology, Tropical Medicine