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This clearly organized, detailed reference provides an overview of the etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnostic tests, treatment and control procedures, and recent advances and challenges for the parasitic infections and diseases transferred to humans by animals in North America. Individual chapters describe the widespread ignorance of these diseases, Toxocariasis and Baylisascariasis , Trichinellosis , larval tapeworm infections, intestinal tapeworm infections, other zoonotic helminths, Cryptospoidiosis , Toxoplasmosis , Babesiosis , other zoonotic protozoa, and zoonotic arthropod parasites. The contributors mainly teach in American universities; one teaches in Mexico, two are with the US Center for Disease Control. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)