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Course code: VVSS00307o12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Exotic animals’ diseases
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 10
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 0 / 24 / 6
Lecturer: dr Tomasz Piasecki
Language of instruction: Polish / English


Learning outcomes: After completing course students get a theoretical and practical knowledge about anatomy, physiology and breeding exotic animals; knows infectious, deficiency and environmental diseases in exotic animals. Students are able to do clinical and anatomopathological examination and obtain material for laboratory examinations. Students know also rules of therapy and are able to use them in individual cases, moreover can do basic surgery. Students are familiar with veterinary administrations rules for exotic animals.

Competences: Students have a general knowledge about exotic animals and are able to adopt these knowledge to their future work, e.g. in veterinary practice, in zoological gardens, laboratory work, in scientific examinations, in veterinary administration.

Prerequisites: Veterinary diagnostic techniques, animal husbandry, animal nutrition, veterinary microbiology, virology and parasitology, pharmacology, immunology and poultry diseases.

Course content: Biology and breeding of exotic animals (reptiles, birds, small mammals). Diseases of exotic animals, rules of therapy, prophylaxis programs for each species, techniques of clinical and anatomopathological examination, taking samples for laboratory diagnosis, administering drugs. Basic surgery techniques.

Recommended literature: 1)Altman R.B., Clubb S.L. et all: Avian Medicine and Surgery. W.B. Saunders Company, USA, 1997. 2)Carpenter J.W., Mashima T.Y., Rupier D.J.: Exotic Animal Formulary. 2005. Manual of Exotic Pets. P.H. Benyon (Editor), J.E. Cooper (Editor), Anna Meredith (Editor), Sharon Redrobe (Editor), BSAVA, 2003. 3)Gabrisch K., Zwart P.: Krankheiten der Heimtiere. Hannover, Schluetersche, 1995. 4)MacArthur S., Wilkinson R., Meyer J.: Medicine and Surgery of Tortoises and Turtles, 2005. 5)Mitchell M.A., Tulmy T.N. jr.: Manual of exotic pet practice. Elsevier, USA, 2008. 6)Stahl S., Jepson L.: Exotic animal medicine. Elsevier, UK, 2009.

Assessment methods: Final test

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