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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 -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D. (06.04.2019)
Field survey techniques. Collecting of small mammals, birds, and fish followed by parasitological examination of collected specimens. Methods for collecting and preserving medically important arthropods, mainly ticks and bloodsucking Diptera. Microscopic determination of parasitic protozoa, helminths and arthropods from free living and domestic animals. One week in the field station of Charles University in South Bohemia.
Literature - Czech
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D. (12.03.2019)

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

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

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. 

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Jan Votýpka, Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

This field course is focused on demonstration and identification of arthropods, helminths and protozoa parasitizing in wild and farm animals. The course documents ontogenesis and life cycles of selected groups of parasites in natural conditions. Emphasis is placed on methods of parasite collection, including parasitological examination of various hosts, methods of fixation and preservations of parasites and subsequent processing for their identification etc. Practical demonstrations include the capture of small rodents by two trapping methods, collection of their ectoparasites and total autopsy of rodents for the presence of endoparasites; capture and examination of birds for ectoparasites and blood parasites; parasitological examination of farm animals; for blood-feeding arthropods: identification and autopsy demonstrating the presence of transmitted protozoa, isolation and cultivation of live parasites; collection of aquatic larvae of parasitic (blood-feeding) insects; collection and identification of aquatic and terrestrial molluscs and demonstration of transmitted helminths; collection and identification of leeches etc.

 
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