The student must have 100% participation in the seminars. Each student will be assigned a seminar work topic. The seminar paper will be prepared by the eleventh week of the semester. In the twelfth week, the presentation of the seminar work will take place. Credit will be awarded based on the evaluation of the seminar work and its presentation.

By completing the course, the student will deepen his knowledge of important zoonoses. In individual parts, their etiology, geographical distribution, epidemiology and epizootology will be addressed. Information on the methods of clinical and laboratory diagnostics according to the current requirements of the WOAH, WHO, ECDC and EFSA will be covered separately. An important part is about methods of prevention and suppression of significant zoonoses. Pointing out differences in methods used in human and animal populations.

The content of the subject (mandatory optional) is the study of infectious and parasitic zoonoses from the point of view of geographical distribution, etiology, epizootology, pathogenesis, course and clinical manifestations, pathological-morphological changes, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, prevention and suppression of individual infectious and parasitic diseases.

Syllabus of lectures, 2h/weekly:

1. Epizootic and epidemiological importance of zoonoses, evolution of zoonoses, an animal and a human as source agents;

2. Zoonoses, characteristics and distribution, Surveillance of zoonoses;

3. Environmental factors, climatic and social factors influencing the emergence of zoonoses;

4. Vectors and their epizootiological and epidemiological significance;

5. Geography and epizootiological and epidemiological situation in the incidence of zoonoses;

6. Bioterrorism, zoonoses as biological warfare agents;

7. Specific prevention - vaccination of animals and humans;

8. Prevention and control of zoonoses;

9. Emerging and re-emerging diseases;

10. Vector borne protozoonoses;

11. Vector borne helminthoses;

12. Water and food borne parasitic zoonoses;

13. Ectoparasitoses; strategy in the prevention of parasitic zoonoses.

Syllabus of lessons 2h/weekly:

1. Bacterial and viral encephalitis and encephalomyelitis; diagnosis, prevention and control.

2. Zoonoses with the natural focal character; diagnosis, prevention and control.

3. Haemorrhagic fever; diagnosis, prevention and control.

4. Influenza and other respiratory zoonoses; diagnosis, prevention and control.

5. Mycobacterioses; diagnosis, prevention and control.

6. Anaerobic zoonoses; diagnosis, prevention and control.

7. Anthrax and brucellosis; diagnosis, prevention and control.

8. Diagnosis, prevention and control of giardiosis, cryptosporidiosis, amoebosis.

9. Diagnosis, prevention and control of tissue protozooses.

10. Vector-borne helminthoses - diagnosis and prevention.

11. Food-borne trematodoses, diagnosis and prevention.

12. Cestodoses-taeniidoses, cysticercosis, coenurosis, hydatidosis, alveococosis.

13. Diagnosis and prevention of ectoparasitoses.

Pedro N. Acha and Boris Szyfres: Zoonoses and communicable diseases to man and animals, third edition,Volume I: Bacterioses and Mycoses ,Volume II: Chlamydioses, Rickettioses and Viroses,Volume III: Parasitoses, 2003

Palmer S.R., Lord Soulsby , Torgerson P.R.,Brown David, W.G.: Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses ( Biology, Clinical Practice, and Public Health control) , OXFORD University Press, 2011, pp 884

Content prerequisite:

Completion of subjects required: clinical diagnostics, pathological anatomy, epizootology, parasitology, environmental protection.

Continuous assessment:

Seminar paper and power point presentation on a given topic

Conditions for completion of course:

The student must have 100% participation in the seminars. Each student will be assigned a seminar work topic. The seminar paper will be prepared by the eleventh week of the semester. In the twelfth week, the presentation of the seminar work will take place. Credit will be awarded based on the evaluation of the seminar work and its presentation.

Final assessment:

written test, 40 questions where student has to reach 51%