Medical Parasitology Teaching unitCourses:MICROBIOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGYYear: Year 3 of Bachelor's in MedicineDegree: Bachelor's in MedicineDescriptionThe parasitic behaviour its phenomena and stages. Study of life cycles of the most important human parasites. General aspects of the protozoa. Metazoa as agents of human disease: helmints and arthropoda.ObjectivesStudents will be able to link the microbial strategies which induce the infectious process with the virulence factors and put them against the defense mechanismsStudents will be able to infere the measures for the control of infections on the bases of the knowledge of pathways and mechanisms for the acquisition and spread of pathogenic agentsStudents will be able to distingüis aspects of the morphology, physiology and genetics of the diverse microbial groupsStudents will be able to apply experimental methods for the detection and identification of pathogenic agentsStudents will be able to describe the basic ideas of biologic behaviourvwhich define the human parasitesStudents will be able to describe and apply specific methods for the study of human parasites and its parasitosisStudents will be able to distinguish the specific targets of the microorganisms and metazoa, used in the development of antimicrobial and antiparasitic drugs, and to deduce the mechanisms of resistance to these drugs.SubjectsLecture topicsThe parasitic behaviour: Phenomena, stages and elements involved in parasitismProtozoa: general aspects. Intestinal, urogenital and superficial protozoaProtozoa causing invasive infections (blood protozoa)Metazoa as human parasites: Helmintes (Cestodes, trematodes y nematodes) and arthropodaLaboratory topicsMicroscopic observation of protozoa