• Filariasis
• Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Cutaneous larva migrans
• Visceral Leishmaniasis, visceral larvae migrans
• Scabies, Pediculosis
• Amoebiasis
• Giardiasis
• Cryptosporidiosis and other coccodian parasites
• Ascariasis
• Strongyloidiasis and hookworm infections
• Enterobiasis, Trichuriasis
• Food borne trematode infections
• Schistosomiasis
• Adult cestode infections
• Trypanosomiasis
• Larval cestode infections
• Malaria
• Toxoplasmosis

At the end of the laboratory course conducted by Department of Parasitology, an undergraduate should have the following skills in relation to each of the listed areas below:

• Be able to use a light microscope to examine a stool smear or a stained blood film.
• Give clear instructions to a patient on how to collect a stool sample for examination for parasites.
• When given a stool sample, prepare smears in saline and iodine and examine them for parasites.
• Safely obtain finger prick blood from a patient
• Examine specimen of helminthes or medically important arthropods using a hand held magnifying glass.