Welcome to the PARASITOLOGY (BIOL 5341) web page!

Instructor: Dr. Dana Nayduch

Fall 2008

· Lecture Syllabus

· Lab Syllabus

LAB MANUAL (updated 2008 version) for DOWNLOAD (pdf file)

Lecture note outlines and supplements (updated frequently)

Print these and put them in your binder.

· Introduction

· Intro to the Protozoa

· Kinetoplastids (hemoflagellates)

o Glycosome

o African sleeping sickness

o Trypanosome VAT/VSG

o Kinetoplastid morphologies

· Other Flagellates (trichomonads, Giardia, etc.)

o Hydrogenosomes

Exam 1

· Amoebae & Ciliates

· Apicomplexans – Part I – Intro and Plasmodium

· Apicomplexans – Part II – other malaria organisms

· Coccidia

· Gregarines and piroplasms

Exam 2

NEWS (check here periodically – may appear as bonus on tests)

• Autochthonous Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, Louisiana

SUPPLEMENTS for LAB you should print these out and put them in your notebook.

• Microscopy
• Good laboratory practice
• Working with BSL2 organisms
• Protozoa morphology comparison tables
• Parabasalids (Trichomonads from humans and termites)
• Helminth eggs, etc.
• Ascaris dissection - color

• FWS – Fish parasites, necropsy and protocols

LECTURE supplements (helpful web sites, etc.):

• VSG/VAT – link to how Trypanosomes evade the immune response
• Images of Plasmodium species
• Cestode anatomy from my PowerPoint
• Onchocerca volvulus life cycle movie

• Heartworm link