Although this is probably old news to some of you (through links from
the ASP and University of Queensland pages), I believe it may be time to
officially publicise the QUT Parasitology Pages.
http://www2.life.sci.qut.edu.au/darben/paraqut.htm
Hopefully now free of bugs and odd things happening with the table of
contents, the QUT Parasitology Pages offer some links to areas of
parasitological interest and an extensive list of jpeg images of human
parasites (some excellent, some poor quality). These pages were set up in
the face of rising student numbers in the parasitology courses taught at
the Queensland University of Technology and a deteriorating clinical
collection and disappearing library books. They are meant as a secondary
source of information to our students, a resource base for academics who
do not normally teach in the area of parasitology and an opportunity to
introduce students to some of the resources the internet has to offer.
The images are originals, taken from the QUT Clinical Parasitology
collection (hence the varying quality) and each features the name of the
parasite, the stage indicated and (if necessary) an approximate scale bar.
I hope that other people can find this resource useful. I have received
some excellent advice so far from people who have stumbled across it in
their travels and would appreciate any feedback on the subject. Due to
the vagaries of the computer account systems hereabouts, comments might
have a better chance of getting to me if sent to the address at the top
of this message (darben at redash.qut.edu.au), rather than the mail link on the
pages.
thanks for your attention and comments,
Peter Darben
School of Life Science
Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
"No longer making the world safe from pig worms - you're on your own now
folks"
