PARA 702: HOST-PARASITE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS

This course aims to give the students a solid foundation in the knowledge of disease transmission. The course will consist of lectures and tutorials and laboratory demonstrations of the principal factors which interact to affect levels of parasite infection and treatment of infections in humans and animals. The integration and management of host-parasite-environment relationships, in terms of transmission, population dynamics, environmental management, environmental modulation of host-parasite relationships, host and parasite behaviour, immune responses, pathology and pharmacology, to decrease parasitic disease.