Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses: Fish and Plant-Borne by Paiboon Sithithaworn, Puangrat Yongvanit, Smarn Tesana,

By Paiboon Sithithaworn, Puangrat Yongvanit, Smarn Tesana, Chawalit Pairojkul (auth.), K. Darwin Murrell, Bernard Fried (eds.)

The food-borne parasites mentioned during this ebook are infections of animals that are transmissible to people and represent an enormous part of the missed Tropical ailments (The international overall healthiness Organization). The expanding reputation of the general public well-being value of those zoonoses, their complex hyperlinks to poverty, agricultural intensification, environmental degradation, and the shortcoming of acceptable instruments for his or her keep watch over used to be the muse in the back of this e-book. some time past those illnesses have been constrained to populations residing in low- and middle-income international locations, however the geographical limits and populations in danger are increasing and altering as a result of expanding overseas markets, enhanced transportation platforms, and demographic adjustments. it really is envisioned that the variety of humans at the moment contaminated with food-borne trematodes by myself exceeds forty-one million, and the variety of humans in danger around the world , together with these in built nations, is 750 million. the focal point of this e-book is on these zoonoses which are transmitted by means of fish, plant and invertebrate meals. whereas humans, in particular these residing in built nations, are regularly conscious of meat-borne zoonoses akin to trichinellosis and cysticercosis, fewer are conversant in parasitic ailments attributable to liver, lung and intestinal flukes, fish-borne tapeworms, and tissue roundworms. This ebook stories not just the superiority and distribution of those zoonoses, together with to be had healthiness and fiscal influence information, but in addition highlights gaps in our wisdom base that has to be stuffed so that it will achieve insights on methods to prevention. the themes on epidemiology, prognosis, and medical facets emphasize wisdom gaps that restrict an entire figuring out of those zoonoses, and goal the place higher learn investments on those parasitic illnesses might be concentrated. Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses: Fish and Plant-Borne Parasites offers the highbrow problem and stimulation had to construct a extra concerted foreign attempt on prevention of those zoonoses. it really is a fantastic quantity for parasitologists, microbiologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, and graduate scholars and pros within the fields of public wellbeing and fitness, infectious disorder, meals safeguard and nutrients science.