TICKS OF ISRAEL
Instructors: Dr. Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, United States National Tick Collection and The James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA, USA, and Dr. Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu, Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
Israeli Hosts: Dr. Yuval Gottlieb-Dror, Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu, Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
Location: Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
Dates: July 10-14, 2011
Total no. of hours: 20
Prerequisites: Priority will be given to those, who actually work or intend to work with ticks
Course program:
DAY 1
Introduction to ticks
Taxonomic position of ticks
Morphology of hard and soft ticks
DAY 2
Anatomy of soft ticks
Biology of hard and soft ticks
Physiology of ticks (blood feeding)
Tick attachment and physiological properties of tick saliva
DAY 3
DAMAGES CAUSED TO HOST BY TICKS
Mechanic/Traumatic damages
Tick toxicosis and tick paralysis
Damages to the productivity of animals (meat, milk)
Damages to the leather
Secondary infections
Transmission of pathogenic microorganisms
DAY 4
HARD TICKS (IXODIDAE)
Ixodes
Rhipicephalus
Hyalomma
Dermacentor
Haemaphysalis
Amblyomma
DAY 5
SOFT TICKS (ARGASIDAE)
Argas
Curios
Ornithodoros
Bibliography
Daniel E. Sonenshine. Biology of ticks. Oxford University Press, 1992, 492pp.
Goodman JL, Dennis DT, Sonenshine DE, editors. Tick-borne diseases of humans. Washington: ASM Press, 2005: 401 pp.
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