Study Programmes 2015-2016
VETE2071-1  
Infectious and parasitic diseases of production animals and wildlife including zoonoses
Duration :
58h Th, 6h Clin. Pr.
Number of credits :
Master in veterinary medicine (60 ECTS)6
Lecturer :
Annick Linden, Bertrand Losson, Jacques Mainil, Etienne Thiry
Coordinator :
Annick Linden
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course 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 course :
Its main objective is to bring the future doctor in veterinary medicine in the understanding of infectious or parasitic disease 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;
Parasitic diseases: the realization of a personal work on a clinical case related to the clinical, diagnostic and trherapuetic aspects of a parasitic disease in a predefined model available on the intranet.
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) :
Fifty-eight hours in amphitheater. 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. Moreover, 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
Assessment methods and criteria :
The written final exam comes in the form of open questions with short and medium answers. The practical exam will be organized separately based on time constraints. Distribution of the rating: 67.5% for medium response questions, 22.5% for short answer questions and 10% for practicals.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Prof. Annick Linden E-mail: a.linden@ulg.ac.be Secretariat 04/366.47.21 Assistant Rosario Volpe E-mail : r.volpe@ulg.ac.be Tél. : 04/366.40.62