This text - useful for schools of public health, medicine, and veterinary medicine, as well as public health and animal health institutions - offers information on zoonoses and communicable diseases common to man and animals in Latin America and the rest of the world. This edition is published in three volumes. This, the first, includes bacterioses and mycoses; the second, chlamydioses, rickettsioses and viroses; and the third, parasitic zoonoses. This text also includes maps, tables and figures that help explain the transmission cycle and the geographic distribution and prevalence of many of these diseases.