Medical Parasitology

Host – Parasite relations; Vectors; Parasitic protozoa – characteristics, mechanism of disease causation, diagnosis and epidemiology; Entamoeba histolytica, Trichomonas vaginalis, Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium; Parasitic helminths – characteristics, mechanism of disease causation, diagnosis and epidemiology; Nematodes – roundworms – Ascaris lumbricoides, Strongyloides stercoralis, Cestodes – Tapeworms – Taenia saginata, Taenia solium Taenia multiceps, Echinococcus granulosus; Trematodes – Flukes: Schistosomes; Malaria – characteristics, mechanism of disease causation, diagnosis and epidemiology; Some Ectoparasites of medical importance- characteristics, mechanism of disease causation, diagnosis and epidemiology; Hemoflagellates – characteristics, mechanism of disease causation, diagnosis and epidemiology; American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease); African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness); Cutaneous and Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis; Visceral Leishmaniasis (Kala-Azar); Host defences against parasitic diseases.