"Have a chew of dulie," said Crubog . . . "What is it?" asked Potter, half-suspiciously. "Seaweed. " "Is it good for the virility? . . . " "And what is the virility?" asked the old man. "Does it make you more attractive to women?" Potier shouted in his ear. "No. " "What is it good for then?" "WortnS. " "Worms?" "Intestinal worms. You'll never again pass a worm if you eat a fistful of dulse first thing in the morning and last thing at night. " "If it's an anthelmintic, I'll try a spot of it," said Potter. - From Bogmail, a novel by Patrick McGinley (1981) With modern techniques of chemical isolation and structure determination, the old distinction between herbal and chemical remedies has largely been broken down. By chemotherapy we now mean simply the treatment of disease by drugs (the word medicines has unhappily been eclipsed). The distinction made between chemotherapy and non chemical therapy (e. g. , radiation, physiotherapy, surgical intervention, immu nomodulation) remains useful despite some minor overlapping. The present work thus deals with drugs and their use in parasitic disease. (Since we are dealing with the treatment of incipient as well as established infection, chemotherapy subsumes chem oprophylaxis as well as chemotherapeusis per se. ) Definition of parasitism as a biological modus vivendi, although important in itself, need not concern us here. We need simply delimit the scope of the book, and that is easily done.
Parasitic Diseases: The chemotherapy
... sensitivity to inhibitors. Knowledge of the biochemical and molecular differences between parasite and host and of rate-limiting Biochemical Adaptation of Parasites to the Host 5 Biochemical Adaptation of Parasites to the Host.
The Chemotherapy of Human Parasitic Disease
Chemotherapy of Tropical Parasitic Infections
; This handbook is designed to provide information about the pharmacological properties and therapeutic uses of the major drugs currently employed to combat the human parasitic infections encountered in the tropics.
The International Society of Chemotherapy meets every two years to review progress in chemotherapy of infections and of malignant disease.
This book presents a comprehensive and up to date account of the chemotherapy of parasitic diseases, both human and veterinary. The book starts with an overview of parasitic diseases.
Control of Human Parasitic Diseases focuses on the present state of control of the significant human parasitic infectious diseases.
The International Society of Chemotherapy meets every two years to review progress in chemotherapy of infections and of malignant disease.
Development of Chemotherapeutic Agents for Parasitic Diseases: Proceedings of the International Conference, Versailles, 11-13 June, 1974