Parasitic Diseases of the Lungs

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barrios, Roberto. (Editor), Haque, Abida K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pneumology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37609-2

Most parasitic diseases occur in tropical and subtropical regions, but some, such as toxoplasmosis and cryptosporidiosis, are endemic or rapidly emerging elsewhere, including the United States and Europe. Diagnosis is often difficult as the clinical manifestations of many parasitic lung diseases are...

Table of Contents:

• Diagnosis of Pulmonary Parasitic Diseases
• Molecular Pathology of Pulmonary Parasitic Diseases
• General Mechanisms of Tissue Injury in Parasitic Infections
• Protozoal Infections
• Nematoda
• The Trematodes
• Cestoda
• Interpretation of Lung Biopsies with Parasitic vs. Pseudoparasitic Structures: Artifacts that Resemble Parasites and Parasites that Resemble Artifacts
• Arthropods and Bronchopulmonary Pathology.