Your Areas of Responsibility Lectures Any specific assignments given A set of facts/info about selected species of parasites (A-I)

9 topics A- Morphology (structure)-size

9 topics B- Taxonomy: Largely based on morphology. Know where to place organism in the scheme of things. Phylum ????? (Sarcodina)

9 topics C – Life cycle, including the ontogenetic (developmental) stages and their size.

9 topics C – Life cycle, including where found environmentally.

Be more specific! Habitat

9 topics C – Life cycle, including prepatent period: The period of time from infection of a host with a parasite until one can demonstrate that the host is infected by finding a stage of the parasite (cyst, egg, larva, etc.) in or from the host.

9 topics D – Geographic distribution: Where in the world would you find it?

Trypanosoma gambiense

9 topics E – Symptoms: Aspects which you observe (headaches, fever, jaundice, etc.)

9 topics F – Pathology: Damage from infection. Physical damage/changes done to body which you can see. Otherwise know as the consequences of the infection.

9 topics G – Diagnosis: How to look for the parasite, where to look, and what do you expect to see. Do not base on symptoms.

9 topics H – Epidemiology: How does it spread through a population?

9 topics I – Drug of Choice and Prognosis: Treatment and what you expect to happen/prospects.