ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: VVSS00056o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Fish diseases
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 7
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr Witold Niemczuk
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Students learn about fish anatomy and physiology, the methods of breeding and raising of salmonids, cyprinids and ornamental fish, as well as illnesses occurring in fish (environmental, viral, bacterial and parasitological diseases), their diagnostics and treatment.
Competences: After passing the course students know about fish diseases. They can diagnose and treat them. They know techniques of clinical examination and autopsy of fish.
Prerequisites: Biology, parasitology, microbiology, epizootiology, toxicology
Course content: Biology and breeding of cyprinid and salmonid fishes (carp, trout). Environmental, viral, bacterial and parasitological diseases. Technique of clinical examination and necropsy.
Recommended literature: Jara Z., Chodyniecki A. 1999. Ichtiopatologia, Wydawnictwo AR we Wrocławiu, Wrocław; Prost M. 1994. Choroby ryb, PTNW, Lublin; Antychowicz J. 1996. Choroby ryb akwariowych, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Rolnicze i Leśne, Warszawa; Noga E. J., 2000. Fish disease: Diagnosis and treatment, Iowa State University Press; Stoskopf M. K. 1993.Fish medicine, W. B. Saunders Company
Assessment methods: Final test. Minimum required knowledge for passing: 60%
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