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PAPER VIII (A)Medical Zoology
Introduction to Parasitotogy (pertaining to various terminologies used). Brief introduction to pathogenic microbes: Viruses, Rickettsias Spirochaetes and Bacteria. Brief accounts of Iife history, mods of infection and pathogenicity of the following pathogens with reference to mon, prophylaxis and treatment:
(a) Pathogenic protozoans: Entamoeba, Typanosoma, Leishmanis, Ciardia Trichomonas Plasmodum.
(b) Pathogenic helminths; Fasciolopsis, Schistoma, Echinococcus Ancylostoma. Trichinella, Wuchereria, Dracunculus, Oxyuris.Brief account of anhropods as direct agents of disease or dis comfort; accidental injury to sense organs; blood loss; entomophobia; dermatoais; mylasis; allergy and venoms. Arthropods as vectors of human diseases; Malaria (Anopheles Stephensi A. cullcifacies); yellow fever and Dengue haemorrhagic (Aedes aegyoti Ae. albopictus); Filariasis (culex pipiens fetigans Mansonia sp.); Japanese B. Encephalitis (C. tritaenor- hynchus) Plague (Ctenocophalides cheopis) and Epidemic typhus (Pediculus).
Distribution biology and control of the above mentioned vectors. Histopathological changes in organs in relation to diseases such as liver cirrhosis,
nephrosis; tumors, cancers.
Epidemic diseases, such as typhoid, cholera, small pox: their occurrence and eradication
programmes.
Brief introduction to human defense mechanisms Antigens and antibodies.
General account of drug therapy and drug resistance.
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