Product Description: The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the biology of the planorbid snail Biomphalaria glabrata mainly as related to the snail’s role as a host of larval trematodes . This snail is of great importance in medical and economic zoology as a vector of important trematode (fluke) diseases in human and veterinary medicine and in wildlife biology...read more

Product Description: Digenetic trematodes constitute a major helminth group that parasitize humans and animals, and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The diseases caused by trematodes have been neglected for years, especially as compared with other parasitic diseases...read more

Product Description: Humans suffer from numerous parasitic foodborne zoonoses, many of which are caused by helminths. The helminth zoonoses of concern in this book were once limited to diseases of animals, but have now become transmissible to humans. This book reviews not only the prevalence and distribution of these zoonoses, including available health and economic impact data, but highlights gaps in our knowledge that must be filled in order to assess the importance of a particular zoonosis...read more

This revised and expanded second edition presents techniques, instrumentation and applications of overpressurized, rotational and high-performance quantitative thin layer chromatography. It contains practical information of the detection, identification and documentation of chromatogram zones; optical quantitation; flame ionization detection; automation and robotics; and nucleic acid derivatives.

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Product Description: The fourth edition of this work emphasizes the general practices and instrumentation involving TLC and HPTLC, as well as their applications based on compound types, while providing an understanding of the underlying theory necessary for optimizing these techniques...read more

Product Description: Trematodology - the study of a class of medically important parasitic, flat-bodied worms - has made significant advances over the past ten years. The tremendous amount of information accumulated from research discoveries and technical developments related to trematode biology makes this book a timely and necessary part of the literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This title discusses all phases of thin-layer chromatography (TLC), including the preparation of biological samples prior to TLC, general practices of TLC, and applications based on compound types. Stresses practical rather than theoretical aspects of TLC, compares modern TLC with other separation methods, contains extensive coverage of sample preparation methods, surveys the latest instrumentation for high-performance and overpressured TLC, covers current principles and techniques, and more...read more