Martin-
Do you mean only parasites? In developed countries, viruses, fungi and
bacteria are more common agents of disease than are parasites. The
American Society of Microbiologists has good links to relevant material.
Clinical microbiology typically begins with a Gram stain of patient
material, and I recommend the recent text ($49.95) and CD ($59.95
individual copy; network $495), "Direct Smear Atlas" by Marker, Siders and
Allen, from www.wwilkins.com, Williams and Wilkins, 351 W. Camden Street,
Baltimore, MD 21201-2436. There are similar clinical books and CD's for
viruses and parasites. For Clinical Parasitology, I like: Price's 1993
Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites, CRC Press, Ann Arbor; Lynn Garcia's book
(name forgotten; perhaps Clinical Parasitology); Larry Ash's Blood and
Tissue Parasites; Peters, Wallace and Gilles 1991 "A color atlas of
tropical medicine and parasitology, Wolfe Med Pub, London, England; and
the ASM Manual of Clinical Microbiology is comprehensive and should be with
any type of clinical lab. I also like D. Leland's Clinical Virology text
for clinically-oriented virology. Having said this, except for Gram stain
examination and selective culture, identification and drug susceptibility
assays in clinical labs mostly follow protocols from commercial companies
specific to their proprietary machinery and supplies, especially for
bacteria diagnosis. Vitek, Microscan, Abbott and Microscan are among the
many suppliers of such custom assays.
Among parasites, reference material, collection and processing material,
and quick stains are available from many commercial suppliers. I like
Scientific Device Labs, Glenview, IL (scidev at aol.com) for parasite and
mycology materials, and other good ones are Meridian, Carolina Biologicals,
NC, Trend Scientific, MN, and Turtox, Rochester, NY. Good 2x2 slides are
available from Lynne Garcia's Visual Teaching Aids company, Santa Monica,
CA; from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Turtox, and others.
About three commercial kits are available for ELISA's and/or IFA's for
Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and Entamoeba; Alexon, Techlab, and Meridian are
among the suppliers; internationally, Cellabs (Sydney, Australia) has a
wide array of assays, mostly IFA. I'm less familiar with European
suppliers, but I think commercial resources should not be overlooked when
training medical technologists or their equivalent.
Hope this is helpful,
Jerry
o. At 10:22 AM 9/30/98 +0200, Martin Ortseifer wrote:
>Hello people,
>>i'm searching for books, web- sites or other sources in order to give
>short but interesting resumee of the most common diseases. The forum
>will be a class of Medical- technical- assistants that have to work
>later on in hospital laboratories.
>>Thanx in advance
>>Martin
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