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Medical entomology - practical course - MB160C36
Title: Praktikum z lékařské entomologie
Czech title: Praktikum z lékařské entomologie
Guaranteed by: Department of Parasitology (31-161)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/5, C [HT]
Capacity: 16
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : MB160P26
Incompatibility : MB160C26
Is complex co-requisite for: MB160T27
Annotation -
Required for students of the Master's Degree in Parasitology, it is necessary to take a lecture in Medical Entomology (B160P26) before or at the same time. Also suitable for students of zoology or entomology. The maximum number of students in the course is 16.

The lab focuses on the demonstration and identification of individuals (crustaceans, mites, insects) on permanent microscope slides and stereomicroscopes in the dead (alcohol or "dry" slides) or live state (ticks and mites, bloodsucking flatworms, and selected Diptera). Basic morphological characters useful for identification and determination of individual groups of blood-sucking arthropods and their most important representatives are discussed. Part of the lab is devoted to the anatomy of each group (stained slides, dissection of flatworms and mosquitoes), and structures important for pathogen transmission are highlighted. The lab also includes a half-day field trip to the floodplain forest (Libický luh) to visit a mosquito hatchery with demonstrations of the developmental stages of several groups of blood-sucking insects. During the course, students will also learn how to dissect insects and identify (transmitted) parasitic protozoa.
Last update: Votýpka Jan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.08.2024)
Literature -

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/parasitology/vyuka/LekEnt_CV/

https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=375

Volf, Horák a kol: Paraziti a jejich biologie, Triton 2007

Mullen, Durden a kol: Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Academic Press 2002, 2009

Last update: Votýpka Jan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.08.2024)
Requirements to the exam -

Active participation in the laboratory course (only one absence is allowed). For final exam, students can use their own notes and drawings created during the lessons.

Last update: Votýpka Jan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.08.2024)
Syllabus -

Syllabus

1. Methods for collection and conservation of arthropods and parasitic Crustacea (Branchiura, Copepoda)

2. Toxic claws (Scorpionidea, Aranea), ticks (Metastigmata, Argasidae)

3. Ticks (Metastigmata: Ixodidae)

4. Other parasitic mites (Mesostigmata, Prostigmata, Astigmata), storage pests (Acaridae and Glyciphagidae), allergenic mites and atopic allergies (allergenic mites test)

5. Phthiraptera (mainly Anoplura, Amblycera, Ischocera)

7. Hemiptera (Cimicidae, Reduviidae)

7. Aphaniptera

8. Diptera: Nematocera (Phlebotominae, Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae)

10. Diptera: Nematocera (Culicidae)

10. Diptera: Brachycera (Tabanidae, Stomoxidae, Glossinidae, Hippoboscidae, Nycteribiidae), larvae myiases (Hypodermatidae, Oestridae, Cuterebridae, Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae)

11. Dissection of selected representatives of blood-feeding arthropods: morphology of the stinging-suction system, anatomy of the digestive system, reproductive organs

12. Excursion to the breeding ground of mosquitoes and other blood-feeding arthropods

Last update: Votýpka Jan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.08.2024)
 
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