Faculty of Science

Objectives

This course aims to provide students with knowledge and critical understanding of the interaction of eukaryotic parasites with the immune system of humans and other mammalian hosts and to examine ways in which protection against these diseases might be achieved by vaccination.

Contents

Immune responses to protozoan infections (Malaria, Leishmaniasis, Trypanosomiasis), Antigenic variation and diversity in malaria; antigenic variation in African trypanosomes, immunopathology of protozoan and Helminth infections, immune responses to Helminth infections (schistosomiasis, filarial nematodes, intestinal nematodes, cestodes), Helminth evasion and modulation of immune responses, Approaches to vaccination against protozoan and Helminth infections, Use of immunological methods for the diagnosis of parasitic infections