This course is introduced for the 3rd year students of veterinary medicine in the second term, it contain both the lectures and practical part , this course is specified for the study of all pathogenic protozoa that inhabits the blood, GIT, or skin of all farm , domestic animals, poultry, and human
Contents
Introduction ……………………………………………………………..5
Classification………………………………………………….…………8
Phylum :Apicomplexa…………………..………………………………9
Eimeriaspp………………………………………..…………………….9
Isospora spp…………………………………………………………….19
Cryptosporidium parvum………………………..……………………...21
Toxoplasma gondii……………………………………………………..23
Sarcocystiss pp……………………………………………….................27
Besnoitiabesnoiti……………………………………………………….30
Plasmodium spp (bird malaria) ………………………………………..32
Haemoproteuscolumbae……………………………………………….35
Leucocytozoonsimondi…………………………..…………………….37
Babesiabigemina………………………………………….……………39
Theileriaparva……………………………………………….................44
Trypanosomatidae……………………………………….…………......46
Histomonasmeleagridis…………………………………………....…..57
Trichomonadidae……………………………………………………….60
Giardia canis, G. cati…………………………………………………...65
Hexamitameleagridis……………………………………………….….66
Entamoeba histolytica………………………………………………….67
Balantidium coli………………………………………………………..69
Practical Protozoology………………………………………………….71