| Department of Ecology
50 % Department of Veterinary Pathobiology 50 % | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 12 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | practical-oral examination No aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures: 1 course modul per week. Theoretical exercises: 1 course modul per week. Practicals: 2 x 2 hours per week | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | E3, fall E5, fall Theoretical exercises in course modul E5 Practicals Tuesdays and Thursdays 13-15 | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 045518 Zoology | ||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| To give a broad introduction to animal groups including parasites, such as protozoans, helminths and arthropodes, which may occure in natural ecosystyms or human and husbandry animals. The course is the base for the other compulsory courses under the Master of Science for Parasitology. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The course include introcuction to the biology introduction to the biology of the most important parasites elucidating the morphology, life-cycles, physiology and biological potentials. Knowledge is also including the distribution and importance of parasites in natural ecological systems and in human, wild animal and husbandry. The principles of identification of parasitic groups of animal.Animal groups acting as intermediate hosts will also be covered in some degree. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Lectures will in general lines present the animal system with focus on the groups including parasites. In relation to the various groups of parasites the morphological adaption and variation in life-cycles will be presented.Through theoretical exercises it is possible for the students to go into depth of a subject using case studies or project orientated studies.In the practicals a representative number of parasites from human beings and animals will be presented. The life-cycle of some parasites will be presented using infection experiments just as is possible to use the most important identification criteria of parasites in practise. | |||||||||||||||
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| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Flemming Normand Frandsen, fnf@kvl.dk, Management, Phone: 3528 Jesper Monrad, jm@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology/Section for Parasitology, Phone: 35332761 Error. Person Not Found | |||||||||||||||
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