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Form of study: | Lecture / Practical |
Course-load: | Per week: 2 / 2 - Per study period: 26 / 26 (recommended, in hours) |
Method of study: | prezenčná |
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CONDITIONS FOR COMPLETION OF COURSE | |
100% attendance on practical lessons 75% attendance on lectures credit test (51%) oral exam (3 questions) pregnat students are not alowed to attend the subject | |
Learning outcomes | |
Ability to get basic knowledge on epizootiology and infectious diseases acoording to OIE requirements, dealing with relations between infectious agents, susceptible hosts and enviroment,gathers information about infectious diseases diagnostics |
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Brief outline of the course | |
• Basic epizootiology principles and definitions • Laboratory methods used in epizootiology • Infectious diseases (viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions) • Clinical and laboratory diagnostics of selected infectious diseases |
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Course syllabus | |
Lectures: 1. Introduction to study objectives and methods of epizootiology and infectology. . 2. Infectious process, infectious disease, classification of infectious diseases 3. Epizootical process. 4. Sources of etiological agents and way of transmission 5. Relations between infectious diseases of animals and man surveillance of zoonoses. 6. Theory of natural focal character of infectious diseases. 7. Molecular epizootology 8. Analysis of epizootological situation. 9. Modeling and prognosing in epizootology 10. Immunological relations between mother and the young, the importance in control of infectious diseases. 11. Immunomodulation in infectious diseases 12. Mycobacterioses 13. Brucelloses, anthrax Practicals: 1. Safety regulations manipulation with the infectious material. Material sampling, packing and dispatching for laboratory examinations at the diagnostics of infectious diseases and immunity state control. 2. Bacteriological and mycological methods in diagnostics of infectious diseases. 3. Serological methods in diagnostics of infectious diseases / agglutination methods, CFT, IDT/ 4. Serological methods in diagnostics of infectious diseases / Elisa, HIT, VNT/ 5. Technique of cell and tissue cultures. Their utilization for diagnostics of infectious diseases and production of biopreparations. Use of laboratory animals and chicken embryos. 6. Laboratory methods for identification of infectious agents.Fluorescent microscopy 7. Utilization of DNA hybridization probes and the PCR method in the diagnostics of infectious diseases and immunity state control. 8. Use of laboratory animals and chicken embryos. Their utilization for diagnostics of infectious diseases and production of biopreparations. 9. Determination of the immunological profile of animals, immunodeficiency and immunomodulation cellular, immunity. 10. Determination of the immunological profile of animals, immunodeficiency and immunomodulation humoral immunity. 11. Epizootological statistics 12. Laboratory dg. and control of mycobacterioses 13. Laboratory DG of bruceloses and anthrax |
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Recommended literature | |
R.D. Smith: Veterinary Clinical epidemiology, Third Edition, Taylor and Francis Group, LLC, 2006, 249pp Sergeant and Perkins: Epidemiology for field veterinarians, an introduction, CABI, 2015, ISBN:9781845936839, 311pp |
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Conditions for completion of course | |
Content prerequisite: Microbiology, Animal hygiene and welfare, Pathological physiology, Pharmacology, pharmacy and therapeutics, Immunology, Food microbiology, Propedeutics, Diseases of bees Continuous assessment: credit test (51%) Conditions for completion of course: 100% attendance on practical lessons 75% attendance on lectures credit test (51%) oral exam (3 questions) pregnat students are not alowed to attend the subject Final assessment: Oral exam (3 questions)
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LANGUAGE, WHICH KNOWLEDGE IS NEEDED TO PASS THE COURSE | |
english |
Evaluation of the course | |||||
Total number of evaluated students: 218 | |||||
A | B | C | D | E | FX |
0.0 | 100.0 | ||||
Date of last modification: 31.07.2018 | |||||
Approved by: Tutot Dr. h. c. Prof. MVDr. Jana Mojžišová, PhD. |