Learning objectives
With regard to the most important infections affecting domestic animals caused by bacteria, mycoplasmas, rickettsias and chlamydias, the course aims to teach the necessary concepts and methods to enable students to achieve the following objectives:
1. make, in practice, the clinical diagnosis and appropriate organ sampling for an experimental diagnosis with a view to confirming or excluding a suspected disease;
2. learn the criteria required to interpret and evaluate the reliability of the various diagnostic tests most widely used in medical practice;
3. acquire knowledge of the batch methods adopted for disease control and their relative economic aspects;
4. acquire knowledge of the preparations available for animal vaccinations, their use, evaluation of the results obtained, and the legislation governing their use;
5. acquire knowledge of the legislative measures adopted for diseases subject to health measures and be able to adopt urgent measures in the presence of an outbreak of contagious disease;
6. be aware of the reasons for the choice of the batch measures adopted for the various diseases on the basis of the health situation of the Country in question and that of the EU;
7. be able to justify and apply suitable measures in the event of a suspected or confirmed outbreak of an infectious disease;
8. have knowledge of the forms and paperwork provided for by the current legislation on veterinary monitoring;
9. be able to conduct an epidemiological survey aiming at identifying the origin and spread of diseases caused by infections.
10. Acquire knowledge ofthe organisation of the health service
Prerequisites
Biochemistry
Microbiology and immunology
Veterinary epidemiology
General Pathology
Course unit content
First part:
Ggeneral microbiology and immunology
Second and third part:
Specific diseases
1. ENTEROBACTERIA
Colibacillosis in cattle, pigs, sheep, horses and dogs; salmonellosis in cattle, pigs, sheep, horses and dogs
2. BORDETELLA
Bordetellosis in the pig
3. MORAXELLA
Bovine infectious keratoconjunctivitis
4. FRANCISELLA
Tularemia
5. BRUCELLA
Bovine and buffalo brucellosis; ovine and caprine brucellosis; swine brucellosis; canine brucellosis; brucellosis in other
domestic animals; epididymitis in the ram.
6. CAMPYLOBACTER
Bovine campylobacteriosis: Enzootic infertility; sporadic abortion; mastitis; enteritis
Ovine campylobacteriosis: abortion, enteritis
7. PASTEURELLA
P. multocida infection; M. Haemolytica infection; P. Pneumotropica infection
8. ACTINOBACILLUS
A. lignieresii infections; A. equuli infections; A. suis infections; A. pleuropneumoniae infections
9. HAEMOPHILUS
H. somnus infections; H. equigenitalis infections(contagious metritis of the mare); H. parasuis infections
10. BACTEROIDES
11. FUSOBACTERIUM
F. necrophorum infectionss
12. Strepto-staphylococci mastitis in dairy cows and other mastogenic microorganisms
13. STREPTOCOCCUS
Strangles; foal septicemia; swine infections
14. STAPHYLOCOCCUS
Tick pyaemia in lambs; botriomycosis; endometritis; canine pyodermatitis; exudative swine pyodermatitis
15. BACILLUS
Anthrax
16. CLOSTRIDIUM
Tetanus; botulism; C. perfringens infections; C. chauvoei infections (symptomatic anthrax); C. septicum infections;
C. novyi infections; C. histolyticum infections; C. sordellii infections; C. difficile infections
17. LISTERIA
Listeriosis
18. ERYSIPELOTHRIX
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae; infections in animals other than pigs
19. MYCOBACTERIUM
M. bovis infections (Tuberculosis); M. avium-intracellular infections; M. tuberculosis infections; M.
paratuberculosis infections(paratubercular enteritis); M. farcinogenes infectionse M. senegalense infections; occasional pathogen mycobacterial infections
20. NOCARDIA
Nocardiosis
21. RHODOCOCCUS
Purulent bronchopneumonia in the horse
22. ACTINOMYCES
Bovine actinomycosis; granulomatous mastitis of the horse; periodontitis and gingivitis in the hamster; mastitis and diseases involving
abcesses
23. DERMATOPHILUS
Dermatophilosis
24. CORYNEBACTERIUM
Bovine bacillary pyelonephritis; ovine caseous lymphadenitis; other corynebacterial infections
25. EUBACTERIUM
Cystitis and pyelonephritis in the sow
26. SPIROCHETE
1. LEPTOSPIRA SPECIES Canine leptospirosis (icteric leptospirosis syndrome; Stockard’s paralysis); swine leptospirosis;
bovine leptospirosis; leptospirosis in other animals (horses, sheep, buffalo)
2. TREPONEMA SPECIES. Superficial necrotic enteritis
3. BORRELIA SPECIES. Lyme Disease
27. BURKHOLDERIA SPECIES
1. Glanders
2. Melioidosis
III. MYCOPLASMA DISEASE
MYCOPLASMA, UREAPLASMA AND ACHOLEPLASMA SPECIES
Bovine contagious pleuropneumonia
Bovine mycoplasmosis (mastitis); ovine and caprine mycoplasmosis (Contagious Agalaxia; M. mycoides infections
subsp. mycoides LC); swine mycoplasmosis (enzootic pneumonia; swine arthritis); mycoplasmosis
in the horse; mycoplasmosis in the dog and cat; Ureaplasma infections; Acholeplasma infections
IV. CHLAMYDIALES
Chlamydial infectionse Chlamydophila
V. RICKETTSIA DISEASES
RICKETTSIA SPECIES. Rickettsia-like infections (Bovine petecchial fever; contagious ophthalmitis)
COXIELLA SPECIES Q Fever
EHRLICHIA SPECIES. Canine ehrlichiosis; Ehrlichiosis in ruminants; Equine ehrlichiosis.
COWDRIA SPECIES
NEORICKETTSIA SPECIES
ANAPLASMA SPECIES
EPERYTHROZOON SPECIES
Full programme
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Bibliography
FARINA R. e SCATOZZA F. - Trattato di malattie Infettive degli animali - UTET, 1995.
Notes from the lectures on Infectious Bacterial Diseases, updated annually. At students’ disposal prior to the lectures.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures and
Laboratory
Assessment methods and criteria
The verification of the achievement of the objectives foreseen by the teaching, is made with a single exam and including the Veterinary Police.
The exam includes an oral exam, where the student must answer 4 questions, addressing the aspects:
1 question regarding: Inborn and acquired immunity
1 question regarding: Pathogen host interaction
1 question concerning: pathogenesis of the infectious disease taken in question
1 related question: profiling and therapy related to the infectious disease taken in question.
The final purpose is to ascertain if the student has reached the goal of knowledge, to know how to communicate and to know how to use it in an autonomous way.
The result was assigned to the overall assessment of the answers from the student. The final mark is expressed in thirtieths.
Students with a sense of discipline (DSA), certified according to the law n. 170/2010 will be granted the benefits provided by law.
Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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