Intro to Medical Parasitology

medical parasitology

concerned primarily with parasites of humans and their medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities

parasitology

area concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of one livign organism on another

tropical medicine

illness indigenous to or endemic in a tropical area but may also occur in sporadic or epidemic proportions in areas that are not tropical

symbiosis

living together of two unlike organisms

commensalism

symbiotic relationship in which two species live together and one species benefit without harming or benefiting the other

mutualism

two organisms mutually benefit from each other

parasitism

One organism (ectoparasite or endoparasite) lives in or on another, depending on the latter for its survival, and usually at the expense of the host

A parasite living inside the body of a host