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Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline , the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in question but by their way of life.
Clinical laboratory in a hospital setting showing several automated analysers.. A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are conducted out on clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. [1]
Parasitology – the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them; Pathology – study of the causes and effects of disease or injury; Human biology – the biological study of human beings. Pharmacology – study of drug action; Biological (or physical) anthropology – the study of humans, non-human primates, and hominids
Medical parasitology is concerned with three major groups of parasites: parasitic protozoa, helminths, and parasitic arthropods. [2] Parasitic diseases are thus considered those diseases that are caused by pathogens belonging taxonomically to either the animal kingdom , or the protozoan kingdom .
Veterinary parasitology is a branch of veterinary medicine that deals with the study of morphology, life-cycle, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and control of eukaryotic invertebrates of the kingdom Animalia and the taxon Protozoa that depend upon other invertebrates and higher vertebrates for their propagation, nutrition, and metabolism without necessarily causing the death of their hosts.
[citation needed] The Kato technique (also called the Kato-Katz technique) is a laboratory method for preparing human stool samples prior to searching for parasite eggs. Eggs per gram is a laboratory test that determines the number of eggs per gram of feces in patients suspected of having a parasitological infection, such as schistosomiasis.
An introduction to medical protozoology, with chapters on the spirochætes and on laboratory methods. 1928. with revision and abridgment by Biraj Mohan Das Gupta: Knowles's introduction to medical protozoology (2nd ed.). Calcutta: U. N. Dhur & Sons. 1944. with Biraj Mohan Dasgupta and Ronald Senior-White: Studies in the parasitology of malaria ...
(Laboratory) Water bath: to incubate specimens or samples As well as those "used in microbiological sterilization and disinfection" (see relevant section).