• The strength of Essentials of Medical Parasitology is its precise essential exam-oriented text in bulleted format • Includes more than 150 color schematic diagrams and more than 100 slides which makes the learning much easier. All diagrams are easy to reproduce in the examination • Exhaustive, yet easy to draw life cycle diagrams • The only textbook of parasitology with latest updates in laboratory techniques, epidemiological data and treatment regimes • Summary of laboratory diagnosis and treatment given in separate boxes for quick review • Latest updates such as vaccine trials of malaria, drug resistance in malaria, Del Brutto’s diagnostic criteria of neurocysticercosis, culture techniques and immunodiagnostic techniques in parasitic diseases incorporated