Prerequisites: 100% active participation in practical exercises. The SP is completed by oral or written examination.

The graduate will gain basic knowledge about the methods of prevention and control of infectious diseases in animals, will gain information about the peculiarities of prevention and control of infectious diseases according to animal species as well as about the organization and coordination of prevention and control of infectious diseases in animals at the national and international level.

The subject content is the study of the principles and methods of prevention and control of infectious diseases with subsequent focus on the peculiarities of prevention and control of infectious diseases according to the species of animals (cattle, domestic sheep and goats, horses, pigs, poultry, pigeons, feathered predators, dogs and cats, rabbits, herbivorous and carnivorous fur-bearing animals as well as laboratory animals and animals in zoo gardens.

Lecture topics 1. General principles and methods of prevention and control of infectious diseases 2. Immunological relationships between mother and young; importance in prevention and control of infectious diseases 3. Immunomodulation in infectious and immunologically related diseases 4. General principles of therapy of infectious diseases, use of active and passive immunization in immunoproxylaxis of infectious diseases 5. Forms, applications of biopreparations and pharmaceuticals in the prevention and control of infectious diseases 6. Antibiotic resistance - problems of therapy of infectious diseases 7. Organization and coordination of prevention and control of infectious diseases in animals 8. International cooperation in the field of prevention and control of infectious diseases in animals 9. Disease reporting 10. Infectious disease recovery programmes 11. Contingency plans 12. Sanitation for the prevention and control of infectious diseases 13. Current epidemiological situation

Exercise topics 1. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in cattle 2. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in sheep and goats 3. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in pigs 4. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in horses 5. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in dogs 6. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in cats 7. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in poultry 8. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in wild animals 9. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in bees 10. Prevention and control of infectious diseases of fish 11. Prevention and control of infectious diseases of fur animals 12. Prevention and control of infectious diseases in zoo animals 13. Credit test

Sharama R.D. Textbook of Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology, 2010,Indian Council of Agricultural Research, ISBN-13: 978-8171640621

Content prerequisite:

The following courses are required: clinical diagnostics, pathological anatomy, epizootiology, parasitology, environmental protection.

Continuous assessment:

Continuous assessment of the course includes 100% participation in practical exercises (1 absence tolerated).

Conditions for completion of course:

Prerequisites: 100% active participation in practical exercises. The SP is completed by oral or written examination.

Final assessment:

The condition for the final evaluation of the course is obtaining credit, active participation in practical exercises (1 absence tolerated) (credit test). The final evaluation of the SP is a successfully passed oral or written examination.