https://hdl.handle.net/11000/33813 2026-04-18T15:57:24Z 2026-04-18T15:57:24Z Peña-Fernández, Antonio Acosta Soto, Lucrecia MIRÓ, GUADALUPE Montoya, Ana Peña Fernández, María Ángeles Morchón, Rodrigo https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39445 2026-02-28T02:11:08Z 2026-02-27T16:19:22Z

Título : Effectiveness of DMU e-Parasitology in teaching animal parasitology. Integrating knowledge in Analytical Chemistry. Autor : Peña-Fernández, Antonio; Acosta Soto, Lucrecia; MIRÓ, GUADALUPE; Montoya, Ana; Peña Fernández, María Ángeles; Morchón, Rodrigo Resumen : The devastating effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic 2019 (COVID-19) globally has highlighted the importance of the human/animal interface and the environment shared as a potential source of diseases. Emerging evidence has shown that significant zoonotic parasitic diseases could be appropriately controlled by implementing a One Health approach, with input from an interdisciplinary team including engineering professionals. De Montfort University (DMU, UK) is leading the development of virtual resources for the teaching and learning of animal parasitology, which will be available in the e-Parasitology® website (http:// parasitology.dmu.ac.uk/index.htm). We have carried out a teaching intervention to introduce this novel resource in the Agricultural Engineering degree at University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2020/21. 76.7% of students (n=30) indicated that engaging with the different formative quizzes and exercises available in e-Parasitology® helped them with understanding the parasitology content of their Animal Health third year module. Our intervention also shown that the website could be used to tackle the downward trend in the teaching of veterinary parasitology, by facilitating the teaching of important zoonoses in programmes with very little time available for the appropriate study of these diseases.

2026-02-27T16:19:22Z Acosta Soto, Lucrecia https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39444 2026-02-28T02:11:00Z 2026-02-27T16:17:20Z

Título : Diagnóstico molecular de Mycobacterium leprae. Autor : Acosta Soto, Lucrecia

2026-02-27T16:17:20Z Peña-Fernández, Antonio Guetiya Wadoum, Raoul Emeric Izquierdo, Fernando Anjum, Umar Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Fenoy, Soledad Peña Fernández, María Ángeles Berghs, Maria Koroma, Sylvester https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39443 2026-02-28T02:10:59Z 2026-02-27T15:58:34Z

Título : Use of DMU e-Parasitology in a West African university. Autor : Peña-Fernández, Antonio; Guetiya Wadoum, Raoul Emeric; Izquierdo, Fernando; Anjum, Umar; Acosta Soto, Lucrecia; Fenoy, Soledad; Peña Fernández, María Ángeles; Berghs, Maria; Koroma, Sylvester Resumen : Following the devastating effects of the 2013-16 ebola outbreak on the Sierra Leonean public health system, De Montfort University (DMU, UK) is leading a project to build the teaching and research capabilities of medical parasitology at the University of Makeni (UniMak, Sierra Leone). A DMU researcher visited UniMak for two weeks in April 2019 and provided a voluntary short training course (theoretical and practical) in basic parasitology, using our novel web-based resource DMU e-Parasitology® (http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk/index.htm), which is little taught in their programmes. Following this training, UniMak’s academics offered a voluntary practical to study the presence of coccidian human parasites in farm pig stool samples to final year students enrolled in the degree of ‘Public Health: Medical Laboratory Sciences’. Nine of the eighteen students that attended the practical provided feedback: 88.9% (22.2% agreed, 66.7% strongly agreed) indicated that the videos displaying how to perform the Kinyoun stain facilitated their learning; and only 11.1% indicated that the web-based resources did not help them to perform the Kinyoun stain. Our results would indicate that the DMU e-Parasitology® is an appropriate resource to introduce and facilitate the teaching of emerging and opportunistic parasitic diseases in a low-income university.

2026-02-27T15:58:34Z Peña-Fernández, Antonio Peña Fernández, M. Ángeles Evans Dennis, Mark Acosta Soto, Lucrecia https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39442 2026-02-28T02:10:58Z 2026-02-27T15:56:16Z

Título : Clinical training to reduce infections of sexually transmitted parasites. Autor : Peña-Fernández, Antonio; Peña Fernández, M. Ángeles; Evans Dennis, Mark; Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Resumen : Infections due to intestinal protozoan parasites are increasing in Europe in men who have sex with men (MSM). However, sexual clinics do not routinely monitor for these sexually transmitted parasites (STPs). Our international team, led by De Montfort University (DMU, UK), has launched a complete open-access website package, named e-Parasitology© (http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk/index. htm), which includes a battery of resources and tools (virtual microscope and laboratory) for the teaching and learning of the STPs of Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia intestinalis, Cryptosporidium spp. These virtual resources were tested with third year BSc Biomedical Science students at DMU in 2019/20 and 20/21, to evaluate their effectiveness, specifically on the acquisition of diagnostic skills. Students completed a focused 2-hour workshop using a clinical case study of E. histolytica affecting an MSM patient, and checked different virtual clinical slides available that presented structures of this parasite using the resources available in e-Parasitology. Thirty-seven and ten students voluntarily provided feedback at the end of the workshop, respectively. Most responders highlighted that e-Parasitology © helped them to learn the clinical and pathological characteristics of Entamoeba spp. (90% in 20/21), as well as how to diagnose infections due to E. histolytica (77.8%; 11.1% disagreed; 20/21 cohort). Our preliminary results suggest that e-Parasitology© facilitates the learning of laborious laboratory techniques for the diagnosis of E. histolytica and opportunistic parasites.

2026-02-27T15:56:16Z Toledo, Rafael Fried, Bernard Acosta Soto, Lucrecia https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39441 2026-02-28T02:11:05Z 2026-02-27T15:53:49Z

Título : Introduction to Plagiorchiida La Rue, 1957 (Order). Autor : Toledo, Rafael; Fried, Bernard; Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Resumen : An introduction to the large trematode (fluke) order Plagiorchiida La Rue, 1957, one of two fundamental branches of the Digenea (along with the Diplostomida). Includes a classification and basic morphological characteristics.

2026-02-27T15:53:49Z Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Fried, Bernard Toledo, Rafael https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39440 2026-02-28T02:11:03Z 2026-02-27T15:50:48Z

Título : Hemiurata Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954 (Suborder) Autor : Acosta Soto, Lucrecia; Fried, Bernard; Toledo, Rafael Resumen : An overview of the trematode (fluke) suborder Hemiurata Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954, one of the most diverse groups of digeneans. They usually occur in the stomach and intestine mainly of marine teleost fishes but also in freshwater teleosts, elasmobranchs, amphibians, and reptiles, and have a wide geographical distribution, found in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. Includes discussion of general morphological characteristics, taxonomy, and life cycles.

2026-02-27T15:50:48Z Toledo, Rafael Fried, Bernard Acosta Soto, Lucrecia https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39439 2026-02-28T02:11:01Z 2026-02-27T15:49:06Z

Título : Echinostomata La Rue, 1926 (Suborder) Autor : Toledo, Rafael; Fried, Bernard; Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Resumen : An overview of the trematode (fluke) suborder Echinostomata La Rue, 1926, which includes numerous species of trematodes that are parasites of humans and domestic animals and are of great health significance. Includes taxonomy, general morphological characteristics, identification, and life cycles for several groups, as well as brief discussions of human echinostomiasis, fascioliasis, and fasciolopsiasis.

2026-02-27T15:49:06Z Peña-Fernández, Antonio Evans, Mark HURTADO MARCOS, CAROLINA Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Izquierdo Arias, Fernando Magnet, Angela Peña Fernández, María Ángeles Singh, Neenu Fenoy, Soledad Bornay Llinares, Fernando Jorge Fernandez de la Puente, María del Carmen https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39438 2026-02-28T02:11:06Z 2026-02-27T15:45:38Z

Título : Blended learning for teaching cell culture as part of DMU e-Parasitology. Autor : Peña-Fernández, Antonio; Evans, Mark; HURTADO MARCOS, CAROLINA; Acosta Soto, Lucrecia; Izquierdo Arias, Fernando; Magnet, Angela; Peña Fernández, María Ángeles; Singh, Neenu; Fenoy, Soledad; Bornay Llinares, Fernando Jorge; Fernandez de la Puente, María del Carmen Resumen : Emerging and re-emerging human parasites have become a global health threat due to different factors including globalisation, climate and vector ecology changes that have highlighted the necessity of teaching human parasitology to appropriately train future health care professionals. However, a significant erosion in the teaching of parasitology in conjunction with a reduction of the number of parasitology departments across European universities has been reported. To maintain and strengthen the teaching of this discipline, De Montfort University (DMU, UK) is leading an innovative international project for the development of a complete on-line package for teaching and learning parasitology named dMu e-parasitology. This package will be publicly available on the DMU website here http://parasitology.dmu.ac.uk/ when completed early in 2019 and have different modules including a Virtual Laboratory. This paper focuses on the first e-learning unit created for the Virtual Laboratory section, named Human Cell Culture, and the validation undertaken to use it as a model unit to build this section. Cell culture is fundamental in parasitology for supporting different areas such as culture of obligate intracellular parasites or testing future drugs against these pathogens. The evaluation of the unit with undergraduate Biomedical Science students in 2017/18 at De Montfort University (UK) indicate that the unit seemed successful in facilitating students to acquire essential basic skills for working with cells in a cell culture room. Finally, we also provide a description of the short-blended learning experience implemented to validate the unit, intervention that could be easily adopted to enhance the teaching of cell culture in human health science programmes.

2026-02-27T15:45:38Z Acosta Soto, Lucrecia Fried, Bernard Toledo, Rafael https://hdl.handle.net/11000/39437 2026-02-28T02:11:04Z 2026-02-27T15:43:13Z

Título : Introduction to Diplostomida Olson et al., 2003 (Order). Autor : Acosta Soto, Lucrecia; Fried, Bernard; Toledo, Rafael Resumen : An introduction to the trematode (fluke) order Diplostomida Olson et al., 2003, one of the two main lineages from which subclass Digenea have diversified. Includes a discussion of Diplostomida systematics, general morphology, and human pathogenesis, including schistosomiasis.

2026-02-27T15:43:13Z García-Carmona, Minerva Gomariz Sogorb, Rubén Nadal Fuentes, Javier Ferrati, Dario Olivares, Luis D. García Orenes, Fuensanta Mataix-Solera, Jorge Arcenegui Baldó, Victoria https://hdl.handle.net/11000/36594 2025-12-03T12:51:05Z 2025-05-16T06:59:16Z

Título : Fuegodia: Sendero didáctico impartido por estudiantes de 4º curso de ciencias ambientales de la Universidad Miguel Hernández Autor : García-Carmona, Minerva; Gomariz Sogorb, Rubén; Nadal Fuentes, Javier; Ferrati, Dario; Olivares, Luis D.; García Orenes, Fuensanta; Mataix-Solera, Jorge; Arcenegui Baldó, Victoria Resumen : A pesar de formar parte de la ecología del paisaje mediterráneo, los incendios forestales suponen un grave problema ambiental debido a la alteración de su régimen natural, causando graves daños ambientales, económicos y sociales. Divulgar a la sociedad el conocimiento adquirido durante décadas por la investigación es fundamental para tratar de mitigar este problema creciente. El presente trabajo muestra un proyecto de aprendizaje-servicio denominado “Fuegodía”, en el cual estudiantes de 4º curso de Ciencias Ambientales de la UMH explican durante una ruta a pie por el espacio natural protegido en Sierra de Mariola, aspectos clave sobre la problemática de los incendios forestales. Elitinerario incluye paradas estratégicas pata que los estudiantes aborden diversos temas tales como la ecología del fuego, los efectos del fuego en suelos y vegetación, la gestión para la prevención, manejos post-incendio etc. Mediante la educación ambiental fundamentada en la evidencia científica, esta actividad de aprendizaje-servicio pretende acercar al ciudadano a su entorno natural con una comprensión más profunda del entorno y mayor responsabilidad. Nuevas actitudes son necesarias para contribuir a reducir el riesgo de incendios catastróficos y construir bosques más resilientes.; Despite being part of the Mediterranean landscape's ecology, wildfire poses a serious environmental problem due to the disruption of their natural regime, which leads to significant environmental, economic, and social damage. Disseminating into society the knowledge acquired over decades of research is crucial in attempting to mitigate this growing problem. This work shows a service-learning project called “Fuegodía”, in which fourth-year Environmental Science students of the UMH explain during a guided tour through the protected natural area in Sierra de Mariola important aspects of the wildfire problematic. The itinerary includes strategic stops for students to address various topics such as the ecology of fire, the effects of fire on soils and vegetation, management for prevention, post-fire management and so on. Through environmental education based on scientific evidence, this service-learning activity aims to bring citizens closer to their natural surroundings with a deeper understanding of the environment and greater responsibility. New attitudes are needed to help reduce the risk of catastrophic fires and build more resilient forests.

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