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| VETE0067-2 | Veterinary Bacteriology
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| Duration : | 23h Th, 10h Pr, 2h Mon. WS |
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| Lecturer : | Jacques Mainil |
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language |
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January |
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Course contents :
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| 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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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| 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 and biological 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 three years of study and during his/her professional life the work performed in these routine diagnostic laboratories. |
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Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :
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| Basic knowledge of eucaryote cytology and biochemistry. |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| 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, systematics (partim), antibiotics/antiseptics/disinfectants and heat disinfection. The timing is communicated to the students at the beginning of the academic year.
The students are continuously assessed during the week. Moreover, during the Monday session, the students are assessed on the pre-requisites (written questions). During the Thursday session, the students are again evaluated by written questions to estimate the evolution of their knowledge. On the Thursday, the students can also ask any question about the lectures and the practicals to the assistant professors, to prepare the practical interrogation of the Friday.NB: In case of necessity (another day off during the week for instance), one session of practicals will be organized during the Wednesday afternoon of the same week, in order to maintain an acceptable timetable for everybody. |
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| 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.
ATTENTION: presence during the TP/TD is compulsory. Any non-justified absence (with an official document) automatically means failure in June. If the student does not contact the person in charge of the organization of the TP/TD, this unjustified absence may even mean failure in September and for the year for the Bacteriology course.
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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Recommended or required readings :
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| The students' notes are available in a Word format (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 (see "Notes en ligne").
Reference books (present in the library or the laboratory) :
- Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease. 2nd Edition. Quinn P.J. et al. Wiley Blackwell, UK. ISBN 978-1-4051-5823-7, 2011.
- 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.
- Microbiologie technique. Tome 1. Dictionnaire des techniques. Joffin J-N., Leyral G. 4ème Edition. Centre régional de documentation pédagogique d'Aquitaine, France. ISBN 2 86617 515 8, 2006 |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| In 2012-2013, the assessment will be as follows:
- Practicals (25% of the final mark): written interrogations on the Monday and on the Thursday; practical interrogation on the Friday; continuous assessment during the whole week. If >12, the final note of the practicals counts for both 1st and 2nd sessions. If the note is under 12, the student must pass again the interrogations during the second session of exams.Reminder: any non justified absence at the TP/TD during the year means refusal to present the theoritical exam.
- Theory (75% of the final mark) during each session:
(a) a multiple choice questionnary (QCM) of 30 questions (50%) on the contents of the lectures (including the chapter on Bacterial systematics) and of the practicals;
(b) an open-answer-question (QROL) (25%) on one of the chapter of the lecture + practicals (if appropriate). |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| This course can not be chosen as "isolated course" by students of 2ndBAC anymore, from the academic year 2010-2011. |
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Contacts :
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| Jacques Mainil (Full Professor)
Coordinator of the lectures and of the practicals
E-mail : JG.Mainil@ulg.ac.be,
Phone : 04/366.95.22
Adeline Muylaert (Assistant Professor)
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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| Items online : |
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| General bacteriology: lectures |
| 4 MSWord files and 3 PwPT files of the lectures. The lecture are based on the PwPt files that are completed by the MSWord files, just like with the listed books. ATTENTION: these files replace the files about the lectures erroneously uploaded last week. |
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| Veterinary Bacteriology: practicals |
| PDF files of the general and specific notes and instructions for the bacteriological practicals
TO BE READ BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE PRACTICALS
Jacques Mainil |
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