Handbook on Parasitology
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Handbook on Parasitology - K. Renuka
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CONTENTS
UNIT – I
INTRODUCTION
I Parasitology
A branch of Biology which deals with the inter – relationship between intraspecific animals or individuals (two animals) is called as parasitology. For better understanding of parasitology, we have to understand the different between Parasite, Parasitism and Parasitology
a) Parasite is an animal which depends on other animals for their life processes.
b) Parasitism is an act of living on other animal.
c) Parasitology is the study of inter-relationship between two individuals.
Parasitology is an important branch of science where in we deal with basic questions like:
1. Why an animal depends on other animal, how and where aspects have to be studied.
2. It deals with human diseases and causes for the diseases.
3. Study of variety of relationship of parasites and their life cycle, hosts, influence on host, mode of transfer.
i. Etiology (an organism which is responsible for causing a disease).
ii. Prevalence (area of distribution)
iii. Epidemiology (study of distribution and existence of organism in particular geographical area)
iv. Pathogenesis (study with deals with the pathogenic or pathological conditions caused by parasite).
v. Symptomology (symptoms of the disease)
vi. Diagnosis (clinical test)
vii. Immunology
viii. Prevention and control
II. Importance of Parasitology
Parasitology is studied by Parasitologist, Biochemists, Physiologists, Chemotheraphtic, Morphologists, Ecologists, Ethologists and Epidemiologists.
Parasitology is novel route finder of Physiological adaptations, Biochemical adaptations, Morphological adaptations and Wide range of immunity
III. What is parasitism?
For clear understanding of the concept parasitism, it is necessary to understand different types of associations and they are:
Symbiosis: Symbiosis comes from the Greek word symboiown (= to leave together). The term symbiosis could broadly be used to include all the different kinds of relationship which exist in nature.
A. Phoresis:
This term is used for a particular type of association in which one organism (larger) merely provides shelter, support or transport for another (smaller) organism of a different species
Ex: Fishes belonging to the genus Fierashfris which live within the respiratory tract of Holothurians or occasionally starfish. These fishes are relatively helpless and are readily attacked and discovered by other species; therefore they seek the transport from holothurians, which appears to be undistributed by the presence of the fish.
In Phoresis there is no metabolic dependence of either of the associates on the other. This type of phenomenon could clearly represent a stage similar to that in the early evolution of parasitism, since chance contact followed by the use of one species and shelter by the other is likely to have been the first step in an association leading to the parasitic way of life.
B. Commensalism:
The term literary means ‘eating at the same table’. It is a type of loose association between animals of different species is which two animals live together without either being metabolically dependent on the other, although one or both organism may receive some benefit from the association. It is more important to stress, the absence of metabolic dependence in this type of association, for it is the absence of this feature, in particularly which separates a commensal sharply from a parasite. This association is not intimate since the tissue of the commensals is not in organic contact nor need it be permanent.
Ex:
1. Hermit crab (Eupaguerus prideauxi) and Sea anemone. Certain species of hermit crab and sea – anemones, in which the anemone lives on the shell sheltering access to the food caught and scattered or unwanted by the crab, whereas the crab benefits by the presence of the sea – anemone which assists in warding off undesirable predators. The crab crawls into shell which is too small for itself and uses the pedal disc of the anemone as cover for the unprotected position of its body (Ex: endocommensalism,).
2. Oxpicker Birds and African Mammals: The birds feed on the lice and ticks of mammals such as rhinoceroses and server to warn them of approaching enemy by displaying their own independent reactions. (Ex: ectocommensalism)
C. Parasitism
Of all the types of animal associations, perhaps parasitism has been, in the past, the most difficult to define. This has been largely due to the failure to recognize that the term has only a relative meaning but also to the insistence, by most authors, that a parasite must necessarily be harmful to its host animals.
To be classified as a parasite an organism must not only be in continuous intimate association with an individual of a different species, but it must also be metabolically dependent on it to some degree.
At one end of the hypothetical scale, is zero dependence, i.e. a free – living organisms; at the other end is 100 percent dependence or total parasitism. In between these two extremes are a range of organisms which satisfy their metabolic