Duration
58h Th, 6h Pcl Pr.
Number of credits
| Veterinary surgeon | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Benjamin G. Dewals, Laurent Gillet, Annick Linden, Damien Thiry
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases of production animals and wildlife (etiology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, zoonotic potential ).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The main objective is to bring the future doctor in veterinary medicine in the understanding of infectious or parasitic diseases based on the interactions between the pathogen, the infected organism and the environment. The focus is especially on the pathogenic mechanisms and zoonoses. The course should be an opportunity to train in an intellectual approach that will make the future doctor in veterinary medicine able to easily understand current and emerging infectious and parasitic diseases, to place these diseases in the differential diagnosis of productions animals infectious and parasitic diseases or not infectious ones and better understand and use the new means of prevention and treatment. The course also pursues other more specific objectives regarding the acquired knowledge in the following areas:
- general notions on important infectious and parasitic diseases in the tropics, with emphasis on notifiable diseases;
- sampling to perform laboratory diagnostics;
- interpretation of results from laboratories;
- vaccine prophylaxis and justify vaccination protocol;
- Plans for monitoring and control;
- The environmental impact of anti-infective and anti-parasitic treatments;
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The study of infectious and parasitic diseases requires prior knowledge of various matters: veterinary virology, bacteriology and parasitology, immunology, molecular genetics, cell biology, general pathology and vaccinology. Indeed the study of infectious and parasitic diseases is located at the intersection of various biological and medical disciplines
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Audience by teaching 58h of teaching in amphitheater; 6 hours of practical work on parasitic diseases
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Blended learning
Additional information:
The courses are given either in amphitheatre or in distance learning according to the health context. The courses are widely illustrated by a computer-assisted presentation. Despite the high number of students, the interactions with the professor are wished during the lecture. The professor is available to students for questions at the end of the lecture
Recommended or required readings
Virologie clinique des ruminants (E. Thiry), collection virologie clinique, Editions du Point vétérinaire. Veterinary Parasitology, partim Animaux de production et faune sauvage, Editors Taylor, Coop and Wall, Blackwell Publishing, 2007, pp 259-315. Veterinary Medicine - A Text Book of the Diseases of Cattle, Horse, Sheep, Pigs and Goats. Radostits OM, Gay CC, Hinchcliff KW, Constable PD. Saunders Elsevier, USA, 2007. ISBN 978-0702-07772 Large Animal Internal Medicine. Bradford P, Smith CV. Mosby Company, USA, 2002. ISBN 0-323-00946-8 Diseases of Poultry. Swayne D.E. Wiley Blackwell, USA, 2013. ISBN 978-0-470-95899-5 Serie "A Color Atlas of Diseases and Disorders of ..." (Wolfe, UK): "... Cattle" (ISBN 0-7234-15797-8); "... the Pig" (ISBN 0-7234-0996-X); "... the Sheep and Goat" (ISBN 0-7234-1708-3); "... the Domestic Fowl and Turkey" (ISBN 0-7234-1628-1). Antimicrobial Therapy in Veterinary Medicine. Giguère S, Prescott JF, Dowling PM. WILEY Blackwell, USA, 2013. ISBN 978-0-470-96302-9 Infectious Diseases of Wild Mammals and Birds in Europe. Gavier-Widen, Duff and Meredith (Eds), Blackwell Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-4051-9905-6
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Additional information:
The written final exam comes in the form of open questions and MC.
The practical exam is organized in the lab, the precise modalities being communicated during the quarter
Distribution of the rating: 90 % for the written exam et 10% for the practical exam.
The final grade is assigned a global rating collegially by the co-holders of the teaching unit. A grade <10/20 leads the student to have to represent all learning activities of the teaching unit during the second session.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Prof. Annick Linden (coordinateur) E-mail: a.linden@uliege.be Secretariat 04/366.47.21