VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Declared in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with first year standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Name and classify important veterinary parasite species by their scientific and/or common names, as appropriate. Audience: Graduate 2. Recognize parasites based on the morphological features of different stages. Recognize the general size, shape, and diagnostic features of adults, larvae, eggs, cysts, etc. Audience: Graduate 3. Identify how parasites of veterinary importance are transmitted. Describe salient features of the life cycles of these parasites, including as definitive hosts, intermediate hosts, paratenic hosts, infective parasite stages, prepatent and patent periods, etc.; other factors influencing transmission such as host environment, diet, season, etc. Audience: Graduate 4. Discuss the effects of parasites on their hosts. Describe the conditions under which disease is produced, the clinical signs and characteristics of disease, the role of host immunity, pathogenic mechanisms, and parasite stages responsible for pathology. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain how parasite infections are diagnosed, treated and controlled. Describe techniques of diagnosis, availability and efficacy of treatment, and the respective roles of different methods of control (e.g., vector control, management practices, chemotherapy). Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Name and classify important veterinary parasite species by their scientific and/or common names, as appropriate. Audience: Graduate 2. Recognize parasites based on the morphological features of different stages. Recognize the general size, shape, and diagnostic features of adults, larvae, eggs, cysts, etc. Audience: Graduate 3. Identify how parasites of veterinary importance are transmitted. Describe salient features of the life cycles of these parasites, including as definitive hosts, intermediate hosts, paratenic hosts, infective parasite stages, prepatent and patent periods, etc.; other factors influencing transmission such as host environment, diet, season, etc. Audience: Graduate 4. Discuss the effects of parasites on their hosts. Describe the conditions under which disease is produced, the clinical signs and characteristics of disease, the role of host immunity, pathogenic mechanisms, and parasite stages responsible for pathology. Audience: Graduate 5. Explain how parasite infections are diagnosed, treated and controlled. Describe techniques of diagnosis, availability and efficacy of treatment, and the respective roles of different methods of control (e.g., vector control, management practices, chemotherapy). Audience: Graduate