Introduction

• He was the first scientist to introduce the single lens microscope.

  Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
• Give his name

  
• He first published a scientific study on a protozoal disease

  Louis Pasteur
• Give his name loius pasteur

  
• founded the field of tropical medicine

  Patrick Manson
• Give his name

  
• He discovered the malarial parasite.

  Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Give his name

  
• He showed the transmission of malarial parasites by mosquitoes.

  Ronald Ross
• Give his name

  
• He introduced the word “zoonosis”.

  Rudolf Virchow
• give his name

  
• It is the area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of one living organism on another.

  PARASITOLOGY
• It is concerned primarily with parasites of humans and their medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities.

  MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY
• It is a branch of medicine that deals with tropical diseases and other

  special medical problems of tropical regions.

  TROPICAL MEDICINE
• It is an illness, which is indigenous to

  or endemic in a tropical area but m

  TROPICAL DISEASE
• Parasiticinfectionisfoundin MAN alone.

  ANTHROPONOSIS
• Parasitic infections mainly affect man, where animals become INFECTED in the life cycle of the parasite.

  ZOOANTHROPONOSIS
• Parasitic infectionismainly in animal, may be acquired by man.

  ANTHROPOZOONOSIS
• They are living organisms, which depend on a living host for their nourishment and survival.

  PARASITE
• They multiply or undergo development in the host.

  Parasite
• Give 5 Types of parasites

  1. ECTOPARASITE
  2. ENDOPARASITE
  3. OBLIGATE PARASITE
  4. FACULTATIVE PARASITE
  5. ERRATIC PARASITE
  6. ACCIDENTAL PARASITE
  7. TEMPORARY PARASITE
  8. PERMANENT PARASITE
  9. SPURIOUS PARASITE
  10. PSEUDOPARASITE
  11. HYPERPARASITE
• a parasite living outside the body of a host.

  ECTOPARASITE
• a parasite living inside the body of a host.

  ENDOPARASITE
• these need a host at some stage of their life cycle to complete

  OBLIGATE PARASITE
• may exist in a free- living state or may become parasitic when the need arises.

  FACULTATIVE PARASITE
• It is found in an organ which is not its usual habitat.

  ERRATIC PARASITE
• which the parasite is not usually found.

  ACCIDENTAL PARASITE
• lives on the host only for a short period of time.

  TEMPORARY PARASITE
• remains on or in the body of the host for its entire life.


  PERMANENT PARASITE
• free-living organism that passes through the digestive tract without infecting the host

  SPURIOUS PARASITE
• It can be mistaken as parasite

  PSEUDOPARASITE
• Parasite that parasitizes another parasite.

  HYPERPARASITE
• defined as an organism, which harbors the parasite and provides nourishment and shelter

  Host
• 5 CLASSIFICATIONS OF HOSTS

  1. DEFINITIVE HOSTS
  2. INTERMEDIATE HOSTS
  3. PARATENIC HOSTS
  4. RESERVOIR HOSTS
  5. ACCIDENTAL HOSTS
• It is one in which the parasite attains sexual maturity and adult stage.

  DEFINITIVE HOSTS
• It harbors the asexual or larval stage of the parasite.

  INTERMEDIATE HOSTS
• the parasite does not develop further to later stages.

  PARATENIC HOSTS
• allow parasite’s life cycle to continue and become an additional source of infection.

  RESERVOIR HOSTS
• Classification which the parasite is not usually found.

  ACCIDENTAL HOSTS