ENY-4660, Advanced Medical
& Veterinary Entomology
3
credits, Distance Education
Contact professor to obtain lecture CDs for course
My goal for this distance education class is to maintain the same schedule as students taking the class on campus and in the classroom.
Lectures WF-- Lectures should be accomplished on or before the date listed
Laboratories M-- Assignments due and submitted to instructor by email on date listed
Instructor: Philip G. Koehler
Office: Urban
Phone: 352-392-2484
Email: pgk@ufl.edu
Office Hours:
Course Description: This course
presents the major insect, mite, and tick vectors of disease to man and animals. Students will learn to identify and
understand the life cycles, morphology, and behavior of mosquitoes, ticks, mites, lice, fleas, and
other disease vectors. Students also will learn about major
arthropod-transmitted disease cycles, including malaria, Lyme disease,
Special Research Project for ENY 6665
students: Special research project must be approved by instructor, and may
be an in depth review of the literature.
The research project report must be written as a scientific paper in ESA
format. Powerpoint presentation and
written script will be a 10 minute scientific paper suitable for presentation
at a scientific meeting. Student has the option of presenting the research
project orally, on site in
Grading: The course is based on 700 total points for ENY 6665 or 600 points for ENY 4660:
Midterm -- 200 points
Laboratory assignments -- 200 points
Final exam – 200 points
Special research topic (ENY 6665 students) -- 100 points
Grading scale (%):
90-100 A 70-77 C
88-89 B+ 60-69 D
80-87 B <60 E
78-79 C+
Text: Gary Mullen and Lance Durden. 2002. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Academic Press. ISBN #: 012510451-0.
Lecture Notebook: Print this on your own from the CD. You can have it printed/bound at a copy store if you desire.
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Information for Students with Disabilities:
Students with disabilities are encouraged to register with the Office for Student Services to determine the appropriate classroom accommodations. Any student requesting classroom accommodations must be registered with the Dean of Students Office, P202 Peabody Hall, 392-1261(TDD - 392-3008), and have documentation on file in the office of Student Services in order to receive classroom and/or examination accommodations. For students with hearing disabilities trying to contact an office that does not list a TDD, please contact the Florida Relay Service at 1-800-955-8771.
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Specific Directions for the CDs
1. Read the assignment in textbook for each class before listening to the lecture.
2. Print the lecture notes for each class. You may want to go to a copy store to have the notes printed and bound.
3. Put lecture notebook and pen/pencil at a convenient place in front of a computer.
A. You will need sound so make sure the computer has speakers and sound capabilities turned on.
4. Insert CD into computer. It should autoload. If autoload is turned off:
A. Windows
1. Go to Windows desktop.
2. Double click “My computer”
3. Double click on “MedVetEntomologyCD.exe”
B. Mac : the CD will not work properly on a Mac computer
4. Each lecture has
A. An introductory video to introduce the subject, the professor, and a student in a classroom setting
B. A title slide that has the time you need to plan for completion of each lecture.
C. An objectives slide that presents the objectives of each lecture.
D. Content slides that present the lecture information
E. Practice essay questions slide
F. A closing video that summarizes the information and presents the next reading assignment.
4. View each slide. Start each lecture by clicking on the menu on the left. Sound or video is played automatically for each slide.
A. The next slide is advanced automatically.
B. You can control the sound/video volume and replay sound by sliding the bar controls.
C. Video can be advanced or rewound by sliding the bar under the video.
C. You can go to other slides by clicking on the menu at the left side of screen.
5. As each slide is playing sound, take notes in the lecture notes.
A. Some slides are color coded. The teal (light blue color) for text indicates that more important information about the word/subject will be orally presented.
B. You have the capability of repeating portions or all of the sound for each slide to hear the information again.
C. You can read additional information from the textbook for each slide.
6. Complete the practice essay questions.
A. These questions are good examples of the types of questions that will be on exams.
7. Laboratories.
A. Insert the cd for laboratory assignments into your computer. Print the laboratory assignment for each laboratory.
B. Assignments require internet access and familiarity with browsing the internet.
C. Email your completed laboratory assignment to the teaching assistant by the due date for the laboratory to get full credit. The laboratory assignments are due on Mondays.
8. It is your
responsibility to stay on schedule. Make
sure you complete the lectures on or before the date on the syllabus.
Lecture Subjects
1. Introduction to
Med & Vet Entomology
2. Classification of Arthropod-borne diseases
3.
Hematophagy, disease transmission and epidemiology
4. Flies (Diptera)
of Medical and Veterinary Importance
5. Moth flies:
Leishmaniasis and Bartonellosis
6. Biting Midges
(Ceratapogonidae)
7. Mosquito Taxonomy, Biology, and Behavior
8. Mosquito viruses: EEE, VEE, SLE, Yellow
fever,
9. Mosquito surveillance
10. Malaria
11. Horse flies, Deer Flies: EIA,
Anaplasmosis
12. Muscid flies
13. Myiasis (Muscoidea)
14. Myiasis (Skin Bots and Grubs) and Louse
flies
15. Black flies of Medical and Veterinary
Importance
16. Filariasis: Mansonellosis, Onchocerciasis
18. Lice of Medical and Veterinary Importance
19. Rickettsial Diseases: Epidemic Typhus,
etc.
20. Mites:
Rickettsialpox and Tsutsugamushi
21. Mites and
Acariasis: Mange, Scabies, Chiggers
22. Spiders and
Scorpions
23. Fleas (Siphonaptera) of Medical and
Veterinary Importance
24. Plague and
Murine Typhus
25. Ticks of Medical
and Veterinary Importance
26. Lyme disease,
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Tularemia
27. True Bugs
(Hemiptera): Kissing bugs and Bedbugs
28. Chagas Disease
29. Tsetse flies
30. Lepidoptera
and Hymenoptera