Clin Para

• Parasitology is the area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of one living organism on another.
• Medical parasitology is concerned primarily with the animal parasites of humans and their medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities.
• Tropical medicine is a branch of medicine which deals with tropical diseases and other special medical problems of tropical regions.
• Tropical disease is an illness which is indigenous to or endemic in a tropical area but may also occur in sporadic or epidemic proportions in non-tropical areas.
• Symbiosis is the living together of unlike organisms and may also involve protection or other advantages to one or both partners.
• Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship in which two species live together and one species benefits from the relationship without harming or benefiting the other, such as Entamoeba coli in the human gut.
• Parasitology is an area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of one living organism on another.
• Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship in which two organisms mutually benefit from each other, such as Flagellates in the digestive system of termites.
• Medical parasitology is concerned primarily with the animal parasites of humans and their medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities.
• Tropical medicine is a branch of diseases which deals with tropical diseases and other special medical problems of tropical regions.
• Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship in which one organism, the parasite, lives in or on another organism (host), depending on the latter for its survival and usually at the expense of the host, such as Entamoeba histolytica in the human gut.
• Tropical diseases are an illness which is indigenous to or endemic in a tropical area but may also occur in sporadic or epidemic proportions in non-tropical areas.
• Ectoparasite is a parasite living outside the body.
• Endoparasite is a parasite living inside the body.
• Symbiosis is the living together of unlike organisms and may also involve protection or other advantages to one or both partners.
• Hematozoic parasites live inside red blood cells.
• Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship in which two species live together and other species benefits from the relationship.
• Cytozoic parasites live inside cells or tissues.
• Coelozoic parasites live in body cavities.
• Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship in which two organisms mutually benefit from each other.
• Enterozoic parasites live in the intestines.
• Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship in which one organism, the parasite, lives in or on another organism (host), depending on the latter for its survival and usually at the expense of the host.
• Erratic parasite is a parasite found outside its usual habitat, such as adult Ascaris worms may migrate from their usual habitat (small intestine) into other sites (e.g. lungs).
• Ectoparasite is a parasite living outside the body.
• Flagella are whiplike structures arising from the ectoplasm of Protozoa.
• Metazoa are multicellular organisms.
• The phylum Arthropoda, which includes medically significant insects, is a phylum of Metazoa.
• Protozoa are unicellular organisms that have a locomotory apparatus.
• The phylum Sarcodina, which includes the amebae, is a subphylum of Protozoa.
• The phylum Ciliophora, which includes Balantidium coli, is a ciliated phylum of Protozoa.
• The phylum Nematoda, which includes round worms, is a phylum of Metazoa.
• The phylum Microspora, which includes spore-forming parasites, is a phylum of Protozoa.
• The phylum Apicomplexa, which includes all members as parasitic, is a phylum of Protozoa.
• Protozoa have two stages: the cyst, which is a non-feeding, non-motile, infective stage, and the trophozoite, which is the feeding/vegetative, motile stage.
• Pseudopodia are hyaline, foot-like extrusions from the ectoplasm of Protozoa.
• The phylum Sarcomastigophora, which includes atrial flagellates and hemoflagellates, is a subphylum of Protozoa.
• Cilia are hairlike projections from the ectoplasm of Protozoa.
• The phylum Platyhelminthes, which includes flatworms, is a phylum of Metazoa.
• E. coli/E. dispar cyst is a protozoan cyst.
• Endoparasite is a parasite living inside the body.