INFECTIOUS DISEASES I AND VETERINARY MONITORING AND PUBLIC HEALTH
cod. 1004807

Academic year 2014/15
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Malattie infettive degli animali domestici (VET/05)
Field
Discipline delle malattie infettive ed infestive
Type of training activity
Characterising
92 hours
of face-to-face activities
7 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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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

Oral exam

Other information

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