Clinical Parasitology

Catalog description

Course covers important parasites of humans including zoonoses and emerging parasitic diseases. Life cycles, clinical features and infective diagnostic stages will be included in the lecture component. The laboratory will include demonstrations and diagnostic procedures. This course will provide the necessary pre-clinical competencies required for advancement to the clinical education component of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program. This course is taught largely at an undergraduate level. Graduate students will have additional course requirements/expectations. Lect. 1, Lab 2. Prerequisite: MIC 230 ; admission to Clinical Lab Science B.S. Program or the Clinical Microbiology M.S. Program or consent of the instructor. Not open to students who have earned credit in BIO 406 /506. Offered Spring.