Module Specification
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Title Veterinary Parasitology and Public Health
Code LIFE216
Coordinator Dr AP Jackson
Infection Biology
A.P.Jackson@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2016-17 Level 5 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
LIFE118  

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
LIFE367; LIFE328 

Co-requisite modules:
 

Linked Modules:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 26

 3
Three focused research seminars leading to summative assessment
      1
Animal and public health tutorial prior to summative assessment
30
Timetable (if known) This refers to timetabled lectures
  		This refers to scheduled times for summative assessments
  		         
Private Study 120
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Unseen Written Exam  2 hours  Semester 2  60  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 1 
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Coursework  2 hour  Semester 2  40  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Assessment 2 Notes (applying to all assessments) Assessment 1 will be 12 short answer questions Assessment 2 will be an essay 

Aims
This module aims to:

1.    Describe the major parasitic diseases of companion and food producing animals and related parasites that impact on global human health;

2.    Outline control methods for parasitic infections;

3.    Develop knowledge and understanding in molecular and cellular biology, ecology and epidemiology relevant to parasitism, and the ability to apply, evaluate and interpret this knowledge to solve problems.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

1.    Describe the diversity, life history, diagnosis and control of economically-important parasites of animals, and those human parasites of global importance;

2.    Define fundamental concepts in parasitology, such as host-parasite interaction, life cycle, virulence, as well as the consequences of parasitism;
3.    Evaluate the relative importance and the nature of different threats of parasitic infection in terms of pathogenicity and impact on socio-economics;

4.    Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the principles of veterinary parasitology and public health, and how this knowledge has been applied to solve problems.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lecture -

This refers to timetabled lectures

Seminar - Three focused research seminars leading to summative assessment

This refers to scheduled times for summative assessments

Small Group Learning - Animal and public health tutorial prior to summative assessment

Syllabus
1 

Introduction to veterinary parasitology
    1.    Coccidiosis
    2.    Water-borne coccidia: Eimeria and Cryptosporidium
    3.    Cyst-forming coccidia: Neospora and Toxoplasma
Babesiosis
    4.    Babesia and other piroplasms
    5.    Control and prevention of tick-borne fevers
    6.    Ticks as ectoparasites and vectors
Trypanosomiasis
    7.    African trypanosomes
    8.    Control and prevention of animal trypanosomiasis
    9.    SEMINAR: Tsetse control
Nematodes in livestock
    10.  ‘Wormy sheep 1’: Teladorsagia circumcincta
    11.   ‘Wormy sheep 2’: Haemonchus and Nematodirus
    12.  ‘Wormy cattle’: Ostertagia and Dictyocaulus
    13.   Principles of control of parasitic infections in ruminants
Nematodes in companion animals
    14.   Cyathostomes and cyathostomiasis in horses
    15.   ‘Worm you r dogs!’: Toxocara and Angiostronglyus
    16.   SEMINAR: nematode research
Heartworm
    17.    Heartworm and other filariae
    18.    Immunity to parasitic nematodes
Fasciolosis
    19.   The biology of Fasciola hepatica
    20.   Control of Fasciola hepatica
    21.   SEMINAR: Research strategies for liver fluke

ANIMAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH TUTORIALS

Arthropods
    22.   Skin deep? Examples of ruminant myiasis
    23.   Mange and other mite diseases
    24.   Overview of ectoparasite/vector control
    25.   Vector biology and parasitic disease

Recommended Texts
Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.
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