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 enlarge | Author: William J. Foreyt
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 67528
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 5
Pages: 235
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.9 x 1
ISBN: 0813824192
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.089696
EAN: 9780813824192
ASIN: 0813824192
Publication Date: October 15, 2001
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 For veterinarians and veterinary pathologists March 15, 2006
N. D. De Bruijn (europe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book, covering much animal species with their specific parasites. Nice pictures.
Good but... December 28, 2005
Abigail L. Casillo (College Station, TX)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is very helpful for fecal identification of most parasites. It does not help you with identification of larvae or adults. The book is also not in color which can be a factor when identifying the differences between some eggs. It also can have more than the necessary information (llamas, pigs, wildlife, humans). Overall a good reference to have on hand.
Foreyt August 31, 2005
H. Schwarz (Melbourne, Vic, Australia)
Very handy reference manual for egg identification, but would be even better if it contained pictures of larvae and adults.
 Great help! September 3, 2004
Frances K. Takacs (Norcross, GA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I needed an informative book with pictures like this. I am starting out in the veterinarian Technician field and have been reading fecal samples now for awhile. This book even beats the book they keep next to thier microscope. This shows some of the parasites not seen very often, but should be known. I keep it with me. This is a book I have no problem telling others to buy. Definetly no regrets here!
 An OK Parasitology teaching guide for classroom use January 12, 2004
Sue B Reith (Bainbridge Island, WA USA)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
This book has its place as a basic general student Parasitology textbook, which I suspect may be its intent... When compared for overall content to other parasitology reference manuals, such as Georgi's Parasitology for Veterinarians (an excellent reference for professional veterinary use if looking for the parasite's background, though not for its ID) I'd give it about a "C" rating. However, I simply cannot recommend this book for use as a reference guide for specifically identifying the parasite eggs or oocysts seen on a microscope slide. Why? One reason is that many of the eggs in the book are artists' hand-drawn, stylized renditions. These cannot compete with actual photographs, wherein the nuances of fine photographic detail set one species of worm egg apart from often quite similar eggs of other species... And, there are inconsistencies in the presentation... On one page, for example, a few hand-drawn egg illustrations show the comparative size of various egg species. Actual size of egg type 'A', for example, is noted to be somewhat smaller than that of egg type 'B'. A few pages later, however, egg 'A', the smaller of the two on the comparative size page, appears in a photo to be about 4X larger than egg type 'B', shown in another photo on that same page. This is critical because often two species of eggs can be so similar in appearance that to accurately determine one species from another for proper eradication, size really DOES matter! Some of the egg photos that are available (and not all are), such as the Haemonchus contortus egg, are of poor quality, thus of no real use for reference... There has been an ongoing livestock parasite management crisis lately on an international scale, because lack of a good photo ID reference book has caused eggs from other worm species to be mis-identified as those of Haemonchus contortus. The egg of one specific and very nasty worm, a Liver fluke called Fasciola hepatica, is often misidentified as Haemonchus, but it unfortunately does NOT respond to the same wormer that wipes Haemonchus out. As a result, the Fasciola hepatica worms, treated with wormers that kill off Haemonchus, refuse to die! The host animal is then determined to be harboring a 'resistant' strain of Haemonchus, and is recommended for culling. But in this book the egg from the Liver fluke is actually found many pages away from the Haemonchus egg, and listed under another host species altogether. Sadly, as a reference to be used for accurate identification of the eggs/oocysts of internal parasites seen on a microscope slide, this book cannot take the place of the out-of-print 1st thru 5th Editions of Sloss' Veterinary Clinical Parasitology.
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