Poisonous and Venomous Animals, Animal Poisonings

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2020-2021

Tematika

Worldwidely more and more people keep those animals (with or without permission) which are capable to cause severe poisonings. Nevertheless more and more people traveling abroad which means high risk to get animal-related toxicity. The course tries to familiarize the students with the theoretical and practical background of poisoning caused by the most important animal groups, including the venom characteristics, pathophysiology and basic medical care actions.

Előadások

• 1. Introduction and basic concepts - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 2. Statistical data on animal poisonings - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 3. Sponge related envenomations - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 4. Cnidaria caused envenomations, case-reports (the Portuguese Man-O-War and Box jellyfish related envenomations) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 5. Molluscs poisonings I., Shellfishes, case reports (shellfish related poisonings) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 6. Molluscs poisonings II., Snails, case reports (Cone shell related poisonings) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 7. Molluscs poisonings III., Cephalopodes, case reports (Common blue-ringed octopus related poisonings) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 8. Annelids and Echinoderms poisonings, case reports - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 9. Arthropods poisonings, Crustacea and Centipede related poisonings, case reports - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 10. Poisoning caused by insects (butterflies, diptera, ants, bees and wasps), case reports (butterflies, wasp and bee related envenomations) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 11. Arachnid poisoning I. (spiders), case reports (Black widow, Loxosceles sp.) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 12. Arachnid poisoning II. (scorpions, ticks and mites), case reports (american scorpions, ticks) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 13. Fish and Amphibians poisoning I. (active), case reports (rays, scorpion-, fire-, stonefish) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 14. Fish and Amphibians poisoning II. (passive), case reports (tetrodotoxin, ciguatera-, scombrotoxin) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 15. Amphibian poisonings, case reports (toads, newt related poisonings) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 16. Reptiles and lizards poisoning, case reports (lizard related envenomations) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 17. Snakebite poisoning I. - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 18. Snakebite poisoning II. - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 19. Snakebite poisonings III., case reports - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 20. The mechanism of snake related venoms - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 21. Poisoning caused by Birds, case reports (pitohui and quail envenomations) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 22. Poisoning caused by Mammals, case reports (shrews and platypus related envenomations) - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 23. The general medical care of animal poisonings - Bérczi Bálint Dániel
• 24. Medical care and treatment of snakebite poisonings - Bérczi Bálint Dániel

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

There isn't.

Saját oktatási anyag

In Neptun.

Jegyzet

There isn't.

Ajánlott irodalom

Steve Backshall: Venomous Animals of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Dietrich Mebs: Venomous and Poisonous Animals: A Handbook for Biologists, Toxicologists and Toxinologists, Physicians and Pharmacists, Medpharm; 2002

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

Maximum of 25 % absence allowed

Félévközi ellenőrzések

A simple choice test has to be done on the last lecture.

Távolmaradás pótlásának lehetőségei

No possibility

Vizsgakérdések

In Neptun

Vizsgáztatók

Gyakorlatok, szemináriumok oktatói