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| VETE0453-1 | Veterinary virology
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| Duration : | 13h Th, 8h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Etienne Thiry |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | Chap 1. Introduction, virus and virology origins
Chap 2. Structural virology
Chap 3. Molécular virology
Chap 4. Viral classification
Chap 5. Methodology in virology and virodiagnosis
Chap 6. Virus-host interactions: single stranded DNA viruses : Parvoviridae (canine parvovirosis); Circoviridae (post weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome);
Chap 7. Virus-host interactions: double stranded DNA virus : Poxviridae (cowpox); Herpesviridae (IBR); Adenoviridae (infectious canine hepatitis); Papillomaviridae (bovine papillomavirus);
Chap 8. Virus-host interactions: reverse transcriptase viruses : Hepadnaviridae; Retroviridae (feline leucosis, feline immunodéficiency; equine infectious anemia);
Chap 9. Virus-host interactions: positive sense RNA viruses : Picornaviridae (fooe-and-mouth disease); Caliciviridae (feline calicivirus, norovirus); Nidovirales : Coronaviridae (feline infectious peritonitis); Arteriviridae (viral arteritis); Flaviviridae : Flavivirus (West Nile fever); pestivirus (mucosal disease);
Chap 10. Virus-host interactions: double stranded RNA viruses : Reoviridae : (bovine) rotavirus, orbivirus (bluetongue); Birnaviridae (Gumboro disease)
Chap 11. Virus-host interactions: negative sense RNA viruses : Mononegavirales : Paramyxoviridae (rinderpest, distemper), Rhabdoviridae (lyssavirus, rabies); Orthomyxoviridae : Influenza A H1N1, H5N1 (avian influenza);
Chap 12 Unconventional transmissible agents (BSE, scrapie);
Chap 13. Perspectives in animal Virology |
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| Course objective : | The course consists in giving the veterinary students the biological background needed to the understanding of viral diseases, taught in master classes. The veterinarian is confronted daily with viral infections. Their great diversity is partly due to the great number of animal species encountered in a veterinary practice. The study of these viral diseases requires a good knowledge of viruses, their biology in the infected cells and diagnostic methods. |
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| Prerequisites : | immunology, biology, cytology, biochemistry. |
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| Workshops : | Laboratory of virology: practicals on virological methods ; to bring a scientific calculator; practical exercices are carried out on floor 0 of building B43b. |
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| Organization : | 13 hours of course in amphitheatre. The interactive lectures are largely illustrated by a computer-assisted presentation. The teacher is at the disposal of the students to answer the questions at the end of the lecture. Workshop: 8 hours. |
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| Written notes : | Lecture notes on veterinary virology |
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| Assessment : | The written examination comprises open questions requiring short and precise answers, within the boxes drawn on the sheet.
Questions of previous examinations are available at: http://www.dmipfmv.ulg.ac.be/virovet/teaching.html |
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| Contacts : | Prof Etienne Thiry E-mail: etienne.thiry@ulg.ac.be Secretariat 04/366.42.63 Assistant Axel Mauroy E-mail : amauroy@ulg.ac.be Tel.: 04/366.42.51 |
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| Remarks : | As the presence at the TD-TP is obligatory, the unjustified absence of a student can involve his inadmissibility to the examination at the end of the year, according to article 7 of the regulation on the organisation of the examinations. |
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| Items online : |
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| Veterinary virology |
| the link directs to the site of the department of infectious and parasitic diseases, virology, in the section "teaching" where the student will find below the title "virologie vétérinaire" the links opening the pdf files of the powerpoint presentations of the course. |
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