Syllabus
Biology of parasitic protozoa (Classification, phylogeny, structure and ultrastructure, life cycles and host-parasite relationships of protozoan parasites of man and animals. Obligatory course of the MSc curriculum for students of parasitology).
1. Introduction. The general classification of the organismal realm. Unicellular eukaryotic organisms: Protista, Protoctista, Protozoa, Archezoa. Protozoan phyla.
2. Phylum Euglenozoa. The kinetoplastid flagellates I. (Bodonids: Bodo, Cryptobia, Trypanoplasma).
3. Phylum Euglenozoa. The kinetoplastid flagellates II. (monogenetic trypanosomatids, digenetic trypanosomatids, Trypanosoma, Leishmania).
4. Phylum Metamonada (retortamonads, diplomonads: Giardia and related organisms). Phylum Oxymonada.
5. Phylum Parabasala. The trichomonads and related organisms. Hypermastigine flagellates.
6. Parasitic amoebic organisms I. Phylum Percolozoa. Naegleria fowleri and the primary amoebic meningoencephalitis. Phylum Amoebozoa (Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia). Amoebae and Legionella infections.
7. Parasitic amoebic organisms II. Intestinal amoebae.
8. Phylum Apicomplexa I. Gregarines and related organisms. Cryptosporidium.
9. Phylum Apicomplexa II. Coccidia (Eimeria, Toxoplasma, Neospora, Sarcocystis).
10. Phylum Apicomplexa III. Hemozoea (Plasmodium, Babesia, Theileria).
11. Phylum Ciliophora.
12. Non-protozoan organisms, traditionally studied by protozoologists I. Fungi: Phylum Microspora.
13. Non-protozoan organisms, traditionally studied by protozoologists II. Animalia: Phylum Myxozoa.
14. Non-protozoan organisms, traditionally studied by protozoologists III. Chromista: proteromonad flagellates, opalines and Blastocystis.
15. Non-protozoan organisms, traditionally studied by protozoologists IV. Fungi: Pneumocystis. Czech protozoology, past and present. Reading material: An Illustrated Guide to the Protozoa (2nd edition) Vols. 1 and
2. (J.J. Lee, G.F. Leedale and P. Bradbury, Eds.). Society of Protozoologists, Lawrence, Kansas, USA., 2000, 1432 pp. Sleigh, M.
1989. Protozoa and other protists. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 342 pp. Hausmann, K. and Hülsmann,N.
1969. Protozoology. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, N.Y., 338pp.
Annotation
An advanced course dealing with taxonomy, phylogeny, structure, fine structure, life cycles and host-parasite relationship of protozoan parasites of man and animals including invertebrates
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