Practical Guide to Diagnostic Parasitology

Klappentext Practical Guide to Diagnostic ParasitologySecond EditionAn essential training aid and reference guide for laboratorians.* Includes easy-to-follow collection and ordering guidelines and diagnostic techniques.* Offers extensive discussion and a table to assist physicians with ordering the most appropriate diagnostic tests.* Provides extensive information on method selection, clinical relevance, and test menus.* Features diagnostic algorithms, summary tables, and identification keys.* Presents comprehensive organism information on facing pages.* Includes "how-to" tips based on 30 years of the author's benchwork experience* Serves as a resource for microbiologists, physicians, medical technologists, public health personnel, teachers, and students. Zusammenfassung An essential training aid and reference guide for laboratorians.* Includes easy-to-follow collection and ordering guidelines and diagnostic techniques.* Offers extensive discussion and a table to assist physicians with ordering the most appropriate diagnostic tests.* Provides extensive information on method selection, clinical relevance, and test menus.* Features diagnostic algorithms, summary tables, and identification keys.* Presents comprehensive organism information on facing pages.* Includes "how-to" tips based on 30 years of the author's benchwork experience* Serves as a resource for microbiologists, physicians, medical technologists, public health personnel, teachers, and students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1. Philosophy and Approach to Diagnostic ParasitologyWhy Perform This Type of Testing?Who Should Perform Diagnostic Parasitology Testing?Where Should Diagnostic Parasitology Testing Be Performed?What Factors Should Precipitate Testing?What Testing Should Be Performed?What Factors Should Be Considered When Developing Test Menus?Risk Management Issues Associated with STAT TestingSection 2. Parasite Classification and Relevant Body SitesProtozoa (Intestinal)Protozoa (Other Body Sites)Protozoa (Blood and Tissue)Nematodes (Intestinal)Nematodes (Tissue)Nematodes (Blood and Tissue)Cestodes (Intestinal)Cestodes (Tissue)Trematodes (Intestinal)Trematodes (Liver and Lungs)Trematodes (Blood)PentastomidsAcanthocephalaTable 2.1 Classification of Human ParasitesTable 2.2 Cosmopolitan Distribution of Common Parasitic InfectionsTable 2.3 Body Sites and Possible Parasites RecoveredSection 3. Collection OptionsSafetyCollection of Fresh Stool SpecimensPreservation of Stool SpecimensCollection of BloodCollection of Specimens from Other Body SitesTable 3.1 Fecal Specimens for Parasites: Options for Collection and ProcessingTable 3.2 Approaches to Stool Parasitology: Test OrderingTable 3.3 Preservatives and Procedures Commonly used in Diagnostic Parasitology (Stool Specimens)Table 3.4 Advantages of the Thin and Thick Blood FilmsTable 3.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of Buffy Coat FilmsTable 3.6 Potential Problems of Using EDTA Anticoagulant for the Preparation of Thin and Thick Blood FilmsTable 3.7 Body Sites and Possible Parasites RecoveredSection 4. Specimen Test Options: Routine Diagnostic Methods and Body SitesOva and Parasite Examination of Stool SpecimensOther Diagnostic Methods for Stool SpecimensTesting of Other Intestinal Tract SpecimensUrogenital Tract SpecimensSputumAspiratesBiopsy SpecimensBloodCulture MethodsAnimal Inoculation and XenodiagnosisAntibody and Antigen DetectionTable 4.1: Body Site, Procedures and Specimens, Recommended Methods and Relevant Parasites, and CommentsTable 4.2: Serologic, Antigen, and Probe Tests Used in the Diagnosis of Parasitic InfectionsSection 5. Specific Test Procedures and AlgorithmsMicroscopyOva and Parasite ExaminationFecal Immunoassays for Intestinal ProtozoaLarval Nematode CultureOther Methods for Gastrointestinal Tract SpecimensMethods for Urogenital Tract Spec...

Product details

• Authors: Lynne S Garcia, Lynne S. Garcia, Lynne Shore Garcia
• Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.06.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9781555814540
• ISBN: 978-1-55581-454-0
• Series: ASM Books; ASM
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine