Emerging parasitic infections.
Parasitic infections are felt by most individuals to have little impact on the health and well being of most inhabitants of Canada, Western Europe, and the United States. As the authors show in this article, parasites are always "emerging" somewhere and have a significant impact on those areas of the world. Moreover, as we are becoming an ever-smaller global village, catastrophes and instability in the Third World affect control of parasitic diseases endemic to those areas, ensuring greater chances of transmission to visitors there. The foundation of successful limitation of parasitic diseases in both developing and developed regions is still accurate and rapid diagnosis.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27834, USA. jchristie@pcmh.com
John D
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Christie
Lynne S
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Garcia
D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000469:parasitology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology*