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| VETE0067-2 | Veterinary Bacteriology
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| Duration : | 23h Th, 10h Pr, 2h Mon. WS |
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| Holder(s) : | Jacques Mainil |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | The course "Veterinary Bacteriology" of 3rd BAC is subdivided into three parts. The purpose of the first part is to present the properties of bacteria in general: architecture, metabolism, growth and cell division. The second part describes the pathogenic bacteria of domestic animals and the most important bacterial species in food microbiology and food science. Two short chapters on the bacterial commensal flora and on the virulence properties of pathogenic bacteria of domestic animals complete this second part. The contents of these two chapters will be presented in more details during the 1st GMV. The purpose of the third part is to review 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. The practicals are closely linked to the ex-cathedra lectures. |
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| Course objective : | Description 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 of the students to 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. |
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| Prerequisites : | Basic knowledge of eucaryote cytology and biochemistry. |
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| 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 answer to the practitioner. The precise content of each afternoon is adapted each year in function of the number of students present. Prerequisites are the following: staining, biotype/serotype/lysotype/pathotype, systemics (partim), antibiotics/antiseptics/disinfectants and heat disinfection. The timing is communicated to the students at the beginning of the academic year.
During the Monday afternoon, the students are evaluated on the pre-requisites.
During the Thursday afternoon, the students can ask any question about the lectures and the practicals to the assistant professors.
During the Friday afternoon, the students are evaluated on their knowledge acquired during the practicals.
NB: In case of necessity (another day off during the week for instance), one session of practicals will be foreseen during the Wednesday afternoon of the same week, in order to maintain an acceptable timetable for everybody. |
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| Organization : | 23h of ex-cathedra lectures (CT) with Power point presentations and examples from the practise whenever possible; 10h of practicals (TP) to illustrate the theory and introduce the routine diagnostic laboratory; 2h of seminar (TD) along with the practicals.
All CT, TP and TD will be finished during the first quadrimestre, so that the exam can be planned in January. The CT will be given during September and October; the TP and TD, during November and December. |
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| Written notes : | Reference notes
(http://www2.ulg.ac.be/fmv/bactgb.htm) :
The students' notes are available in a Word format on the website of the Bacteriology laboratory (see "notes en ligne"). The Power Point presentations are also available on the same website (without the figures). The students' notes are adapted each year.
Reference 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.
- Antibiogramme. Courvalin P., Leclercq R., Bingen E (Eds). 2ème Edition. Editions ESKA, France. ISBN 2 7472 0907 5, 2006. |
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| Assessment : | In 2009-2010, the evaluation will be as folows:
- Practicals (25% of the final mark): 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. If >12, the final note of the practicals counts for both 1st and 2nd sessions. If the note is <12, the student must pass another interrogation during the second session of exams.
- Theory (75% of the final mark): during each session, a multiple choice questionnary (QCM) of 40 questions on the contents of the lectures (including the chapter on Bacterial systematics) and of the practicals. |
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| Contacts : | Jacques Mainil (Professor)
Coordinator of the lectures and of the practicals
E-mail : JG.Mainil@ulg.ac.be,
Phone : 04/366.95.22
Adeline Muylaert (Assistant)
Organisation and evaluation of the practicals
E-mail: amuylaert@ulg.ac.be
Phone : 04/366.93.88
Jean-Noël Duprez (Technician) Organisation of the practicals E-mail: jean-noel.duprez@ulg.ac.be Phone : 04/366. 40. 52 |
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| Remarks : | None. |
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