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Course code: VVSS00052o10Semester: 2010/2011 winter
Name: Epizootiology
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 10
ECTS points: 13
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 90 / 90 / 0
Lecturer: dr Krzysztof Rypuła
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: At the end of the course student should know the infection diseases of pets and stock animals like pigs, cattle, sheep and goats. Student also should know the method of diagnostics and therapeutic and prophylactic procedures.
Competences: At the end of the course student will gain the knowledge of diagnose and recognition of infectious diseases in cattle, pigs, horses, goats, pigs, cats and dogs. Should be able to collect samples for laboratory investigation and to introduce proper treatment or to give instructions to eradicate the disease.
Prerequisites: Microbiology vet., Immunology vet., Farmacology vet., Clinical Diagnostics, Veterinary Epizootiology
Course content: The aim of this course is to provide the students with the basic knowledge about animal disease in population and to give them knowledge about determinants of the disease, its transmission routes, ecology, analytical and descriptive epidemiology problems. And to prepare students to solve an investigations problems, collecting data, and to understand ratios, rates and proportions connected with diseases in animal population. To understand its relationship with other sciences and public health and disease control programmes.
Recommended literature: Choroby zakaźne zwierząt z zarysem epidemiologii zwierząt i zoonoz, Z. Gliński, RWRiL, Warszawa 2003. Choroby zakaźne zwierząt i epizootiologia ogólna, Z, Gliński, Wyd. AR Lublin, 1999. Choroby zakaźne zwierząt domowych z elementami zoonoz, S. Winiarczyk, Wyd. AR Lublin, 2001. Choroby beztlenowcowe zwierząt, Z. Cygan, Pol-Druk Kraków 1999. Diagnostyka wirusologiczna chorób zwierząt. PWRiL, Warszawa 1992.
Assessment methods: Passing grade of practice and clinical work and written-oral exam
Comment: Clinical training - 50 hours/group. This subject lasts 3 semesters.