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VETE0067-2

General bacteriology applied to veterinary medicine

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Duration :26h Th, 15h Pr, 3h Mon. WS
Credits/ECTS :
3rd year of a Bachelor's degree in veterinary medicine4
Holder(s) :Jacques Mainil
Course contents : The purpose of the first part of the course is to present the properties of bacteria in general: architecture, metabolism, growth and cell division. The second part of the course presents the different commensal and pathogenic bacterial species living in contact with domestic animals, and the most important species in food microbiology. The purpose of the third part of the course is to introduce the students to the virulence properties of bacterial pathogens, and to the different therapeutic and prophylactic tools of the veterinarians and medical doctors in their fight against bacterial pathogens.

The practicals help the students to realise how a routine laboratory of bacterial diagnosis works in veterinary medicine.
Course objective : Presentation of the infectious agents (or microbes) that the bacteria are, in general, in animal health and in public health, and of the physico-chemical tools important in the fight against bacterial pathogens. Introduction to the students of systematic bacteriology in relation with animal diseases and with the routine diagnosis in laboratories, so that he/she can understand during the final years of study and during his/her professional life the work performed in these routine diagnostic laboratories.
Prerequisites : Basic knowledge of eucaryote cytology, molecular genetics, general biochemistry and immunology.
Workshops : During the practicals (afternoons of Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday), the students are demonstrated and perform themselves the different steps in a bacterial diagnosis: sampling, inoculation onto agar plates, staining, identification, antibiotic sensitivity, interpretation and response to the practitioner. The precise content of each afternoon is adapted each year in function of the number of students present.

In 2006-2007, a seminar session will be organized on the Wednesday afternoon of the same week. During the seminar the students can ask any question of the lectures and on the practicals. The precise timetable and rooms on the practicals and of the seminar will be communicated to the students early 2007.
Organization : 26h of lectures with Power point presentations and examples from the practise whenever possible; 15h of practicals to illustrate the theory and the routine diagnostic laboratory; 3h of seminar along with the practicals.
Written notes : Reference notes :
The students' notes are available in a Word format on the website of the Bacteriology laboratory (http://www.ulg.ac.be/fmv/bactgb.htm). The Power Point presentations are also available on the same website (without the figures). The notes are adapted each year.

Other books (present in the library or the laboratory) :
- Clinical Veterinary Microbiology. Quinn P.J. et al. Wolfe, UK. ISBN 0 7234 1711 3, 1994.

- Introduction à la microbiologie. Tortora G.J., Funke B.R., Case C.L. (adaptation française de Martin L.). ERPI, Canada. ISBN 2 7613 1345 3, 2003.

- Veterinary Microbiology. 2nd Edition. Hirsh D.C., MacLachlan N.J., Walker R.L., Blackwell Science, USA. ISBN 0 8138 0379 9, 2004.

- Color atlas of medical microbiology. de la Maza L.M., Pezzlo M.T., Shigei J.T., Peterson E.M. ASM Press, USA. ISBN 1 55581 206 6, 2004.

- Microbe. Schaechter M., Ingraham J.L., Neidhardt F.C. ASM Press, USA. ISBN 1 55581 320 8, 2006.
Assessment : In 2006-2007, the evaluation will be as folows:

- Practicals: interrogation on the first day (Monday) and on the last day (Friday) + marking of the interest and work of each student during the week + marking of a written report by each student. The final mark of the practicals counts for both June and September sessions (if >12). If not >12, the student must pass another interrogation during the second session of exams.

- Theory: during each session, a multiple choice questionnary (QCM) of 60 questions on the contents of the lectures (including the chapter on Bacterial systematics) and of the practicals.

NB: Final note = Practical note (20/80) + QCM note (60/80)
Contacts : Jacques Mainil (Professeur)
Coordinator of the lectures and of the practicals
E-mail : JG.Mainil@ulg.ac.be,
Phone : 04/366.40.50

Maude Lebrun, Nathalie Martin (Assistants)
Organisation and evaluation of the practicals
E-mail: maude.lebrun@ulg.ac.be
Phone : 04/366.40.52

Jean-Noël Duprez (Technician) Organisation of the practicals E-mail: jean-noel.duprez@ulg.ac.be Phone : 04/366. 40. 62
Remarks : None.

Items online :
Notes de bactériologie 3ème candidature
Les notes sont réparties en 4 parties sous format Word et en 3 parties sous format Power Point (sans les illustrations) pour les aspects théoriques, auxquelles il faut ajouter des notes de travaux pratiques en format Word.




ULg : Students and Studies Administration - Academic Affairs
Contact : Monique Marcourt, direction A.E.E.
Date of data : 18/05/2007
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