Report of the Malaria Expedition to Nigeria, Vol. 2 PDF Download

Author: H. E. Annett
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ISBN: 9781331963615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Excerpt from Report of the Malaria Expedition to Nigeria, Vol. 2: Of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Medical Parasitology The series of new blood filariae described in the following pages were found during the examination of a large number of West African birds of different species for parasites of the red blood corpuscles. The discovery of the blood filariae naturally led to a search for their parent forms: but time did not permit of any extensive investigations being made as to the nature of their intermediary hosts. Opportunities also occurred for observations on human filariasis in West Africa, which combined with the work on avian filariasis, will, it is hoped, throw considerable light on this very interesting branch of parasitology. The description of the parasites has involved a great amount of labour in the examination of the literature of the subject, and for this reason, and also because of the rapidly increasing importance of the subject, and of the desire for a comprehensive work, often expressed by investigators in tropical countries, it has been considered desirable to incorporate in this work Stossich's extensive bibliography, and also to introduce chapters on the Nematodes in general and the Filariae in particular, for the greater part of the matter of which we are indebted to the valuable works of Shipley (Worms etc., The Cambridge Natural History) and Railliet (Zoologie medicale et agricole). The authors wish particularly to thank Mr. A. E. Shipley for his useful advice and help; Mr. Robinson, who kindly undertook the identification of the birds of our collection; Dr. A. H. Hanley for much valuable material; and our colleagues at University College for their assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."