Parasite Immunology - MB160P75E
Title: Parasite Immunology
Czech title: Imunologie parazitárních nákaz
Guaranteed by: Department of Parasitology (31-161)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Explanation: nahrazuje MB160P35
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: RNDr. Iva Kolářová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Iva Kolářová, Ph.D.
RNDr. Tomáš Macháček, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MB160P35
Is incompatible with: MB160P35
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Annotation -
THe course starts on September 29, 2025.

Parasite immunology is an advanced course that requires the basic knowledge in immunology and parasitology. This course is suitable for master and PhD students.

Aim of the course is to provide information about host immune mechanisms operating against selected groups of parasites, including protozoa, helminths and ectoparasites. You will learn details about the relationship between parasites and particular host immune mechanisms, parasite immune evasion mechanisms and immunopathology of parasitic infections.

Last update: Kolářová Iva, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.09.2025)
Literature -

Ratcliffe: Encyclopedia of Immunobiology. Elsevier 2016
Lamb: Immunity to parasitic infections. Wiley 2012
Reviews in Nature Reviews, Trends in Parasitology, Frontiers and other related scientific journals
PDFs of lecture presentations are provided in Moodle.

Last update: Kolářová Iva, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.09.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Oral exam

              

Last update: Kolářová Iva, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.09.2025)
Syllabus -

The order of lectures is subjected to change.

1. Sleeping sickness(Kolářová)

2.  Malaria (Kolářová)

3. Leishmaniases (Kolářová)

4. Chagas disease (Kolářová)

5. Vaccines: intro, vaccines against vector-borne diseases (Kolářová)

6. Toxoplasmosis (Kolářová)

7. Cryptosporidiosis and Giardiasis (Kolářová)

8. Immunodiagnostics (Kolářová)

9.  Schistosomosis (Macháček)

10. Intestinal helminthoses (Macháček)

11. Tissue helminthoses (Macháček)

12. Helminths: vaccines, immune evasion (Macháček)

Last update: Kolářová Iva, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.09.2025)
Entry requirements -

Parasite immunology is an advanced course that requires the basic knowledge in immunology and parasitology. This course is suitable for master and PhD students.

Last update: Kolářová Iva, RNDr., Ph.D. (24.09.2025)