Intestinal infection continues to be a major problem worldwide to which helminths make an enormous contribution with billions of individuals currently affected. Like the first volume - which covered bacterial, viral and protozoan infections of the gut - this book brings together clinical descriptions of disease and up-to-date guidance on management with important basic helminth infection. The contributors are an international panel of experts - with expertise as clinical and laboratory investigators and many of whom have a continuing active research interest in those parts of the world where these infections are most common. This companion volume produces serves as a complete text on enteric infection. The book should be of value to infectious disease physicians, microbiologists, gastroenterologists, general physicians and hospital specialists, as well as basic scientists working on all aspects of intestinal infection.