2. What is Medical Parasitology?
Medical parasitology or human parasitology is restricted to
studying those parasites that are living in or on the body of
humans and with aspects of the host-parasite relationship
having medical significance. In other words, medical
parasitology is the subject which deals with the parasites
that infect man, the diseases caused by them, clinical
picture and the response generated by man against them.
17. Protozoology, the study of
protozoans. The science had its
beginnings in the latter half of the
17th century when Antonie van
Leeuwenhoek of the Netherlands
first observed protozoans by
means of his invention, the
microscope.
18. Protozoans also serve as
experimental organisms in many
studies of cell and molecular
biology.
