INFECTIOUS DISEASES I
Learning outcomes of the course unit
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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 biopsies/removal 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. be able to conduct an epidemiological survey aiming at identifying the origin and spread of diseases caused by infections.
Prerequisites
Microbiology and immunology
Veterinary epidemiology
General Pathology
Course contents summary
II. BACTERIAL 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. FRA NCISELLA
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
Footrot
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
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Recommended readings
FARINA R. e SCATOZZA F. - Trattato di malattie Infettive degli animali - UTET, 1995.
Notes from the lectures on Infectious Bacterial Diseases, updated annually. Academic Year 2005-2006. At students’ disposal prior to the lectures.
