COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEROLOLGICAL DIAGNOSTIC IN PARASITOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PAR 5018 SEROLOLGICAL DIAGNOSTIC IN PARASITOLOGY ELECTIVE 1 4 0 7

Offered By

Medical Parasitology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SONGÜL BAYRAM DELIBAŞ

Offered to

Medical Parasitology

Course Objective

Learning technical materials and devices related to serological diagnosis in parasitology and serological methods

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define, describe and apply serological tests
2   Define biosafety in laboratory and associate with laboratory practise
3   List and prepare solutions and materials used in serological tests
4   Prepare antigens used in serological tests
5   List and apply rapid diagnostic tests
6   List prefered serological tests in certain parasitosis and associate with diagnostic criteria
7   Outline electrophoresis and western blotting
8   Define serological tests specific to certain parasitosis (Dye test, avidity test etc.)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Technical devices in using serological tests and their properties
2 Biosafety in laboratories
3 State and prepare solutions and materials used in serological tests
4 Prepare antigens used in serological tests
5 Aglutination (HA, IHA) methods
6 Properties fluoresance microscope and fluoresance stains
7 Immunofluoresance methods
8 Convantional ELISA methods
9 Special ELISA methods
10 Electrophoresis and immundiffusion methods
11 Immunuchromatographic methods (Rapid diagnosis tests)
12 SDS-Page and western-blot methods
13 Other serological methods(Dye, avidite, compleman fixation )
14 Serological tests specific to certain parasitosis and criteria of diagnosis

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Ozcel s Medical Parasite Disease Ed. M. Ali Özcel, 2007

Supplementary Book(s):
1. General Parasitology Gülendame Saygı, 1999
2. Diagnostic Medical Parasitology, Ed. Lynne Shore Garcia, 2007
3. Markell And Voge's Medical Parasitology, Ed. William A. Petri, David T. John, 2006
4. Atlas of Human Parasitology, Ed. Lawrence R., 2007


Materials:
It will be used material and technical devices of serological laboratories for

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Learning theoretical lesson and tasks, discussion lectures, preparation presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term and final term exam will be in classical format and evaluated to 100 points.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0 232 412 45 40

Office Hours

Wednesday : 13:30 - 14:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 17 17
Preparing presentations 1 16 16
Reading 1 5 5
Preparation for tutorial exam 1 9 9
Preparing the laboratory notebook 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.355554
LO.455554
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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