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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
PAR 5014	SEROLOLGICAL DIAGNOSTIC IN PARASITOLOGY	COMPULSORY	1	4	0	7

Offered By

Medical Parasitology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SONGÜL BAYRAM DELIBAŞ

Offered to

Medical Parasitology

Course Objective

Learning technival 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): Parazitolojide Laboratuar, Ed. M. Korkmaz, Ü.Z. Ok, 2010

Supplementary Book(s):
1. Ozcel s Medical Parasite Disease Ed. M. Ali Özcel, 2007
2. Medical and Veterinary Immunparasitology, Ed. M. Ali Özcel, N. Turgay, A. Inci, E. Köroğlu, 2007
3. Diagnostic Medical Parasitology, Ed. Lynne Shore Garcia, 2007
4. Markell And Voge's Medical Parasitology, Ed. William A. Petri, David T. John, 2006
5. 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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

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

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

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0 232 412 45 44

Office Hours

Wednesday, 13.30 -14.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.6	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12
LO.1	5	5	5	5			5	4
LO.2	5	5	5	5			5	4	4
LO.3	5	5	5	5			5	4
LO.4	5	5	5	5			5	4
LO.5	5	5	5	5	3	4	5	4
LO.6	5	5	5	5			5	4
LO.7	5	5	5	5			5	4
LO.8

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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