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HU Credits:
3
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Animal Sciences
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Rehovot
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Gad Baneth
Coordinator Office Hours:
by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Gad Baneth
Course/Module description:
The course describes basic principles in parasitology
The lectures will be recorded. The recordings would be available to students after the end of the semester
Course/Module aims:
To provide the student with a basic understanding of parasitology
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To understand basic terms and principles in parasitology including life cycles, groups of parasites and means of preventing parasitic diseases
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures with reference to the scientific literature for further enrichment
Course/Module Content:
1. Preface to parasitology
2. Basic terms in parasitology A
Medical and veterinary Importance of parasites, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, ectoparasites and endoparasites, types of hosts and vectors, monoxenous and heteroxenous life cycles.
3. Basic terms in parasitology B
Introduction to protozoa, specific organelles, motility.
4. Protozoa
Reproduction mechanisms of protozoa, cysts and cyst formation.
5. Apicomplexa
Apicomplexan organelles, the basic aplicomplexan life cycle, coccidia and coccidiosis.
6. Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae
Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum
7. Apicomplexa: Cryptosporidium
8. Apicomplexa: Babesia and babesiosis
An introduction to ticks and transmission of tick-borne pathogens, babesiosis of domestic animals
9. Apicomplexa: theileriosis
10. Apicomplexa: hepatozoonosis
Hepatozoon canis, Hepatozoon americanum
11. Malaria
12. Kinetoplasta : trypanosomiasis
13. Kinetoplasta: leishmaniasis
14. Flagellates
Giardia, Trichomonas, Amoeba
15. Introduction to helminthology and trematodes
16. Nematodes 1
Ascarids, Anisakis, Ancylostoma, Spirocerca lupi
17. Nematodes 2
Trichuris, Trichinella, Filaria
18. Cestodes 1
Dipylidium, Taenia
19. Cestodes 2
Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis
20. Course summary
Required Reading:
-
Additional Reading Material:
Georgi's Parasitology for Veterinarians. 11th edition 2020. Author: Bowman. Elsevier.
Grading Scheme :
Written Exam % 100
Additional information:
Teaching and the final examinations may change subject to the university's regulations and availability of frontal teaching and examinations on campus
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