Course Specifications/Overall Aims of the Course
- Part of this course will focus on parasitic infections of humans with knowledge concerning biological,
epidemiological, and ecological aspects of parasites causing diseases in humans. It concerns different
parasitological-related diseases in Egypt that are causing serious health problems. This part of the course will
discuss medical helminthology, protozoology, and entomology concerning their morphological features, life
cycle, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, different diagnostic techniques, and the most recent lines of
treatment and prevention with control strategy for each parasitic infection. Moreover, it also covers laboratory
diagnosis of human parasitic infections.
The other part of the course provides students with the essential knowledge to recognize the epidemiology,
mechanisms of pathogenesis, clinical picture, methods of laboratory diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and
control measures of RNA and DNA viral infections in humans.