Volume : 2, Issue : 4, April - 2013

Study of the Systematics of Free Living Protozoan from Mumbai Region Maharashtra

Dr. Umakant Pandharinath Kamble

Abstract :

Protozoan’s are unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that are placed in animal kingdom protista. The word protozoa come from the Greek word Protos and Zoon meaning “First animals are eukaryotic protists. The study of protozoa is of great practical important to man, several species form highly virulent parasites of men and animals, causing various dreadful infectious diseases particularly in the tropical countries. No less than twenty to twenty five different species of parasitic protozoa are known to live in man alone. The knowledge of these parasites is useful from the medical point of view. The knowledge of the portals of entry and means of transmission of these parasites is of vital important from the stand point of preventive medicines. Thus a general study of the phylum protozoa is most essential to understand the parasitic forms and to fight out their menace to mankind, domestic animals and crops.