Course code VeteD024
Credit points 9
Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Total Hours in Course243
Number of hours for lectures96
Independent study hours147
Date of course confirmation08.04.2015
Responsible UnitInstitute of Food and Environmental Hygiene
Course developers
prof.
Anda Valdovska
Dr. med. vet.
prof.
Kaspars Kovaļenko
Dr. med. vet.
Course abstract
Candidate for a doctors degree study morphology, nature, growth, feeding, systematization of pathogens of a different animal. Epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, pathologanatomical signs, diagnostics, treatment and prophylaxis of animal infectious diseases caused by aerobic gram-positive cocci, enterobacteria, aerobic gram-positive rods, sporulating rods, anaerobic and facultative aerobic microorganisms, mycoplasma, rickettsia, chlamydia, pathogenic fungi, RNA and DNA viruses and prions.
Learning outcomes and their assessment
Deeper knowledge of the aetiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, control and prophylaxis of the animal infectious diseases.
Skills to do research in field of animal and zoonotic infectious diseases.
Competence to explain the risks of accumulation and spreading of infectious pathogens.
Compulsory reading
1. Colville J., Berryhill D. Handbook of Zoonoses. Elsevier, 2007. 272 p.
2. Challenges of animal health information systems and surveillance for animal diseases and zoonoses. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2011. 122 p.
3. Markey B., Leonard F., Archambault M., Cullinane A., Maguire D. Clinical veterinary microbiology. 2nd ed., Mosby-Elsevier, 2013. 915 p.
4. Quinn P.J., Markey B.K., Leonard F.C., FitzPatrick E.S., Fanning S., Hartigan P.J. Veterinary microbiology and microbial diseases. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 656 p.
Further reading
1. Sellon D.C. Equine infectious diseases. St. Louis: Saunders/Elsevier. 2007. 653 p.
2. Scott McVey D., Kennedy M., Chengappa M. M. Veterinary Microbiology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 648 p.
3. Zimmerman J.J., Karriker L., Ramirek A., Schwartz K.I., Stevenson G.W., Diseases of swine. Willey - blackwell, USA, 2012. 983 p.
Periodicals and other sources
1. An International Journal on Animal Infection. EDP Sciences / ISSN: 1297-9716
2. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases. Blackwell Verlag GmbH / ISSN: 1865-1682
3. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Elsevier / ISSN: 1201-9712