This book chapter discusses three main aims of grazing management as a means of controlling nematode and trematode populations and limiting their impact on their hosts, namely: to limit the acquisition of infective stages (larvae and metacercariae) by susceptible hosts in order to reduce the...

This chapter focuses on 3 waterborne diseases of humans, namely schistosomiasis, Dracunculus medinensis infection and Buruli ulcer, describing their aetiology, clinical features, diagnosis, mode of transmission, incubation period, period of communicability, occurrence and distribution, control and...

This chapter focuses on the life cycle and host-seeking behaviour of trematodes, using cercariae as an example. The factors affecting disease transmission to intermediate (usually molluscs) and definitive hosts (man and other vertebrates) are discussed.