Jan 17: Introduction: The impact of human migrations, agriculture and societal development on the spread of infectious diseases. Presentation: ppt | HTML | notes

1. Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases
2. Ecology of Increasing Disease

Jan 22: The fly that would be king - African trypanosomiasis. ppt | HTML | notes

1. http://www.earlham.edu/~harrico/Trypanosite2.htm

2. Sleeping sickness - Central Africa:

3. Afrcan livestock production in areas at risk from trypanosomes

Jan 24: The kiss of death - American trypanosomiasis. ppt | HTML | notes

1. Trypanosoma cruzi and Chagas disease

2. American Trypanosomiasis-Epidemiology and Mode of Infection

Jan 29: I'll take my water straight, thankyou. (Cryptosporidium). ppt | HTML | notes

1. Cryptosporidium parvum: an emerging pathogen

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12191656&dopt=Abstract (click on full text article)

3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11113253&dopt=Abstract (click on full text article)

Jan 31: Death on the wing at our doorstep. (Malaria). ppt | HTML | notes

1. MALARIA

2. Malaria: A Reemerging Disease in Africa

Feb 5 : What a tachy predicament. (Toxoplasmosis). ppt | HTML | notes

Toxoplasma Gondii

Feb 7: Infections at a snails pace. (Schistosomiasis). ppt | HTML | notes

1. Schistosomiasis from Tulane

2. "Factors Affecting the Prevalence of Schistosomiasis in the Volta Region of Ghana" from MJM.

Feb 12: A Tale of Taeniids: The Cystic Cestodes (Cysticercosis). ppt | HTML | notes

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11165932&dopt=Abstract (Click on full text article)

Feb 14: The worm that would be virus. (Trichinosis). ppt | HTML | notes

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11516583&dopt=Abstract (Click on full text article)