Diseases of poultry Time table and content of the lectures and practicals for English course 5 th year GVM, spring semester, 2011/2012 2/2c Lecture and Topic Lecturer practicals 1st week: Lecture: Introduction to poultry diseases, general relationship to production and diseases. Lesson: Methodology in the clinical examination of poultry. Patients introduction Preparation of patients for demonstration. 2nd week: Lecture: Principles of diseases prevention, diagnosis and control. Growth disorders. Lesson: Application of drugs, division of drugs used for poultry. Assistance during practising of drug administration. Patient collection and preparation. 3rd week: Lecture: Diseases of nutrition. Diseases of integument (skin and feather). External parasites. Lesson: Introduction of blood sampling. Assistance: haematological panel cheking up. Patient collection and preparation. 4th week: Lecture: Diseases of the eye. Heart and blood diseases. Lesson: Cytology + blood smem exaluation. Clinical oncology and avian medicine Interpretation of leukogram and myelogram. Lympho and myeloproliferative diseases in avian medicine. Revision test. Laboratory markers interpretation in general. 5th week: Lecture: Haemorrhagic diathesis. Poisons and toxins. Lesson: Diagnosis and therapy of parasite diseases. Disinfectants, parasiticides, insecticides, and pesticides. Ecto and endoparasites introduction and demonstration of patients. 6th week: Lecture: Diseases of the respiratory system: fungal, bacterial, parasitic, and others. Lesson: Clinical and laboratory examination of patient, preparation of protocol. Demonstration of patients, sampling, focusing on respiratory system (bacterial, parasitic and fungal and others). 7th week: Lecture: Diseases of digestive system, gastrointestinal disorders. Dysfuction of different aetiology. Lesson: Examination of hatching eggs, embryonal mortality. Preparation of hatching eggs, hen and assistance during candling. Preparation of patients, eggs etc. 8th week: Lecture: Protozoan diseases: Coccidioses and others (intestinal, blood, and tissue). Lesson: Examination of digestive system. Demonstration of patiens, sampling. 9 th week: Lecture: Diseases of the urinary and the reproductive system. Lesson: Clinical and laboratory examination. Laboratory panel used in avian medicine. Patient collection and preparation. 10th week: Lecture: Mycotoxicoses. Diseases of ostriches. Lesson: Examination of patients. Diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of ostriches. Introduction for patient protocol preparation. Mycotoxicoses diagnostics and differentiation, demonstration of patients. Patient collection and preparation. 11th week: Lecture: Developmental, metabolic and miscellaneous disorders. Diseases of pigeon. Lesson: Demonstration of pattients: pigeons. Clinical examination of a given patients. Checking protocol for given patients. 12th week: Lecture: Diseases of nervous and motoric system. Lesson: Credit Revision Test. Checking protocol for given patients. Demonstration of patients. Collection and patients preparation. 13th week: Lecture: Diseases of cage birds. Lesson: Laboratory panel used in cage birds and reptiles Demonstration of patient. Signing of credit. Collection and patients preparation. |
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