PARASITOLOGY

General Module

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

5-year Single Cycle Master's Degree Programme in VETERINARY MEDICINE

Disciplinary Sector:

Parasitology and Parasitic Animal Diseases

Is part of:

PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SCALA Antonio

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None

AF code:

40000204

Teaching period

Single Annual Cycle

Objectives

The goal of the course is the knowledge of morphology, lifecycles and epidemiology of the most common parasites in veterinary medicine. The course provide a basic education that can allow students to understand other disciplines, first of all to Parasitic Diseases, but also Pathology, Inspection and Quality of Food of Animal Origin and the Clinics.

Contents

The biological associations (symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism and parasitism); definition of definitive and intermediate host, and carrier; contact with the host; movement and adhesion to host; overcoming the defense systems; internal migration, reproduction; exit from the host; parasitic specificity; the concept of zoonoses; notions of immunoparassitologia; parasitosis and immunodeficiencies; systematic of animal parasites. Parasitology as a branch of ecology. Notes on the application of biotechnology in parasitology. Classification and morfobiologic

Recommended Bibliography

- Parassitologia degli animali domestici- Terza edizione, Lisimaco Casarosa, Ambrosiana – Milano.
- Guida allo studio della parassitologia. Pampiglione - Canestri Trotti, Società Editrice Esculapio – Bologna.
- Parassitologia Veterinaria. Urquhart -Armour- Duncan- Dunn- Jennings, Edizione Italiana - Claudio Genchi UTET - Torino.
– Parassiti in Medicina Veterinaria – metodi di identificazione ed indagine microscopica. Sloss M.W., Kemp R.I., Edi-ermes, Milano.

The slides and other material used for lectures is made available to the students on the online evet.uniss.it platform.

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