Free-Living Amebas: Natural History, Prevention, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Disease [Hardcover]

This book places greater emphasis on the practical problems of epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and pathological aspects of the two principle types of free-living amoebic infection: the acute disease produced by Naegleria fowleri and the chronic, subacute and opportunistic form, produced by acanthamoeba spp.1. Introduction 2. Historical Perspective 3. Protozoology, taxonomy, and nomenclature of free-living amebas 4. Ecology, epidemiology, and environmental factors 5. The disease: Clinical types ? manifestation and course 6. Anatomo-pathological characteristics: PAM and GAE 7. Laboratory Diagnosis: PAM and GAE ? cerebrospinal fluid examination 8. Retrospective diagnosis: PAM and GAE 9. Animal Models: PAM and GAE 10. Free-living and amphizoic amebas in animal hostsThis book places greater emphasis on the practical problems of epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis, and pathological aspects of the two principle types of free-living amoebic infection: the acute disease produced by Naegleria fowleri and the chronic, subacute and opportunistic form, produced by acanthamoeba spp.US? 1985 CRC Press, Inc.