Sarah J Pitt Author

Dr. Alan Gunn has an undergraduate degree in Applied Zoology and a PhD in parasite biochemistry. He is Principal Lecturer and Subject Leader for Biosciences at the School of Biological and Environmental Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published research papers on many aspects of parasitology and taught parasitology to undergraduates for over 30 years. As well as authoring the successful first edition of ‘Parasitology: An integrated approach’ he has also written ‘Essential Forensic Biology’, the third edition of which was published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2019.

Dr. Sarah J. Pitt has an undergraduate degree in Microbiology, MSc in Medical Parasitology & Applied Entomology, and a PhD in Microbiology. She is Principal Lecturer in Microbiology at the School of Applied Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK, and a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science. She has published in parasitology with a particular focus in clinical and diagnostic parasitology. She gained extensive practical parasitological knowledge living and working in Zimbabwe and Tajikistan. She has been teaching parasitology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for over 20 years. As well as co-authoring the first edition of ‘Parasitology: An integrated approach’, she has also written ‘Clinical Microbiology for Diagnostic Laboratory Scientists’, published by Wiley-Blackwell in January 2018.