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Field Parasitology I - MB160T27
Title: Terénní parazitologie I
Czech title: Terénní parazitologie I
Guaranteed by: Department of Parasitology (31-161)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/7, C [DS]
Capacity: 11
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Additional information: http://www.natur.cuni.cz/parasitology/
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Jana Bulantová, Ph.D.
RNDr. Libor Mikeš, Ph.D.
Mgr. Karolina Volfová
doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : {At least one of the following subjects: MB160C26, MB160C36}
Is co-requisite for: MB160T67
Annotation -
It is recommended that this course be taken in the first year of the Master's degree in Parasitology (the course takes place in the second half of June). Students are required to complete the lectures and practical courses in the core courses of Parasitology (especially Medical Entomology B160P26 and B160C26, also appropriate Parasitic Protozoa Biology B160P37 and B160C30, Helminth Biology B160P33 and B160C28). Due to the duration of the course, it is not advisable to take the course in the 3rd year of the BSc unless the student plans to graduate in the fall term.

The course lasts 7 full days (plus marginal half days for arrival and departure), usually in the second half of June. Location: Field Station Ruda (Veselí nad Lužnicí).
Contents: Methods of collecting parasites, trapping and studying their hosts (amphibians, birds and small mammals) in the field. Identification and processing of collected material in the field laboratory.
Last update: Votýpka Jan, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (31.08.2024)
Literature - Czech

Materiály z přednášek v pdf (z kurzů entomologie, helmintologie a protozoologie)
Volf, Horák a kol: Paraziti a jejich biologie, Triton 2007
Mullen, Durden a kol: Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Academic Press 2002, 2009
Klíče FAUNA

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

Active participation in the field (laboratory) course (absence is not allowed). It is obligatory to keep protocols that will include all observations, catches, autopsies, etc., including a list of all hosts (common and scientific names) and parasites (scientific names) and drawings of the observed parasites. 

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

The field course focuses on the demonstration and identification of arthropods, helminths and protozoa that parasitize wild and domestic animals. The laboratory course documents the ontogeny and life cycles of selected parasite groups under natural conditions. Emphasis is placed on methods of collecting parasites, including parasitological examination of their hosts, fixation and preservation of parasites, and subsequent preparation for identification and further processing. Practical demonstrations include the capture of small rodents in live and snap traps, collection of their ectoparasites and general dissection of rodents for the presence of endoparasites, capture and examination of birds and bats for ectoparasites and blood parasites, and parasitological examination of livestock, capture of blood-sucking bipeds in light and CO2 traps or exhausters, their identification and dissection for the presence of transmitted protozoa, isolation of live parasites for the purpose of their cultivation and in vitro study, collection of aquatic larvae of parasitic insects, collection and identification of aquatic and terrestrial molluscs and detection of transmitted helminths, collection and identification of leeches, etc.

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