Learning objectives
The course aims to give the student the basic concepts about zoonoses, with particular reference to zoonoses of zootechnic interest and of food origin, and about animal health, with the study of the main infections of productive animals and of the main methods of controlling diseases, together with a study of the main legislation in force. At the end of the course the student should have acquired competence in applying measures of prevention and control to diseases of zoonotic origin in general, to the zoonoses dealt with in particular and to the main diseases of productive animals that are the subject of the course.
Prerequisites
Microbiology and immunology
Course unit content
<br />INFECTIOUS ZOONOSES<br /> GENERAL DETAILS<br />Definitions of zoonoses. Frequency, importance, etiology, symptomatology and fight methods against anthropozoonoses.<br />Analytical epidemiology:<br />a) sources of infection<br />b) methods of transmission<br />Synthetic epidemiology:<br />a)circumstances of infection of humans: professional zoonoses, accidental zoonoses, freetime zoonoses, family zoonoses<br />b)life cycle of causal agent: orthozoonosis, cyclozoonosis, metazoonosis, saprozoonosis<br />c)evolution of zoonoses in humans<br />ANALYTICAL STUDY<br />The course will examine the main bacterial and viral infectious zoonoses. Etiology, epidemiology , pathogenesis, clinical pictures, diagnosis, therapy, disease prevention measures and the legislation will be considered for each disease. <br /> General part: general concepts of hygiene in breeding farms: animal health, environmental hygiene, hygiene of zootechnical productions.<br />Special part: study of bacterial and viral infections causing enteric, respiratory, genital and hypofertility pathologies in productive livestock, in particular in cattle and pigs.
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Bibliography
ASDRUBALI G. Patologia aviare.Pitagora Editrice Bologna.<br />ANDREANI E, BUONAVOGLIA C, COMPAGNUCCI M, CONTINI A,FARINAR, FLAMMINIC, GENTILE G, GUALANDI G, MANDELLI G, PANINA G, PAPPARELLAV,PASCUCCIS, POLI G, REDAELLI G, RUFFO G, SCATOZZA F, SIDOLI L.Malattie infettive degli animali. UTET, Turin.<br />CALNEK B.W. Patologia aviare.Piccin, Padua.<br />POLI G., COCILOVO A. Microbiologia e immunologia veterinaria.UTET, Turin.PELAGALLIGV, BOTTE V. Anatomia topografica veterinaria. Ediermes.
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