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Parasitology Course BIOL 2272

This course is still under construction and will be updated regularly

A course on parasitology in English by Fred R. Opperdoes

Research Unit for Tropical Diseases,"Christian de Duve" Institute of Cellular Pathology and Laboratory of Biochemistry, Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 74-75, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium

Table of contents

• Definitions and concepts
  • Definition of parasitism
  • Parasitic associations
  • What is parasitology
  • Different types of parasites
  • Mechanisms of infection
  • Types of parasite 2
  • Types of host and vector
  • Parasite reservoirs
  • How do parasites survive inside an immunocompetent host ?
  • Harmful effects of the parasite on the host
  • Prophylaxis
• Trypanosomiases
  • African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness
    • Trypanosoma brucei as the model organism
    • Diagnosis and treatment
    • Drugs
    • Tsetse traps
    • Fact sheet on sleeping sickness in the soudan
  • American trypanosomiasis or Chagas' disease
    • Symptoms and Pathology
    • Immunity
    • Treatment
    • Chagas' press release
    • Interruption of transmission (press release)
    • Uruguay free of transmission
• Leishmaniasis
  • Immunity
  • Parasite and host cell
  • Different manifestation of the disease
  • Treatment
  • Survival of parasites in the macrophage
  • Oxygen defense mechanisms
  • Mode of action of anti-trypanosomatid drugs
  • Anti-leishmania vaccines
  • Leishmaniasis and AIDS
• Malaria
  • The four Plasmodium species
  • The Plasmodium life cycle
  • Immunity
  • Clinical manifestations
  • Vaccine development
  • Chemotherapy
    • Mode of action of anti-malarials
    • Drug resistance
    • Novel drugs
      • Artesunate
      • Pyronaridine
  • Prophylaxis
  • Plastids in the Apicomplexans
  • The WHO malaria fact sheet
  • Visit an interesting website on malaria
• Babesiosis
  • Hosts and vectors
  • Life cycle
  • Cattle babesiosis
  • Human babesiosis
• Theileriosis
• Schistosomiasis
• Lymphatic filariasis
• Onchocerciasis or river blindness
  

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• Questions
• Terms