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2023/2024

Animal Health III

Code: 102613 ECTS Credits: 5
Degree Type Year Semester
2502445 Veterinary Medicine OB 4 1

Contact

Name:
Enrique Maria Mateu de Antonio
Email:
enric.mateu@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Teachers

Joaquín Castellà Espuny
Margarita Martin Castillo
Enrique Maria Mateu de Antonio
Laila Darwich Soliva
Ana Maria Ortuño Romero

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites. However, it is recommended to review the contents of the subjects of Animal Health I and II, Microbiology, Microbiology and applications, Parasitology, and Epidemiology and Statistics.


Objectives and Contextualisation

Animal Health III is a first-semester subject of the fourth year of the Veterinary Medicine Degree. Animal Health III is part of the subject of Animal Health that comprises four courses. In this subject  the infectious and parasitic diseases of dogs and cats, rabbits and pigs are taught.

The training objectives are:

- To understand the basic concepts and methodology used in the study of infectious and parasitic diseases.

- To understand the pathogenesis of the most important infectious and parasitic diseases of domestic animals and relate it to the most characteristic clinical signs and injuries.

- To make differential diagnoses based on the epidemiology, signs and observable lesions in animals.

- To apply and interpret the most common laboratory techniques in the framework of infectious and parasitic diseases.

- To prepare a diagnosis and a pattern of action before a case or outbreak of infectious-contagious disease.


Competences

  • Analyse, synthesise and resolve problems and make decisions.
  • Apply scientific method to professional practice, including medicine
  • Demonstrate knowledge of English to communicate both orally and in writing in academic and professional contexts.
  • Diagnose different individual and collective animal diseases, and know about prevention measures, with emphasis on zoonoses and notifiable disease.
  • Diagnose the most common diseases using different general and instrumental techniques.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyse, synthesise and resolve problems and make decisions.
  2. Apply and interpret the commonest laboratory techniques to diagnose and prevent infectious and parasitical diseases in domestic animals and other useful species.
  3. Apply scientific method to professional practice, including medicine
  4. Define the basic concepts and methodology used in the study of animal health.
  5. Demonstrate knowledge of English to communicate both orally and in writing in academic and professional contexts.
  6. Distinguish the main parasitical diseases that affect domestic and useful animals.
  7. Evaluate the importance and appropriateness of necropsy as a method for diagnosing disease.
  8. Evaluate the importance of infectious and parasitical diseases in the field of animal health, public health and animal productions.
  9. Identify the characteristic lesions of diseases in domestic and wild species.
  10. Perform differential diagnoses on the basis of epidemiology, clinical signals and observable injuries in animals.
  11. Produce action guidelines for a case or outbreak of an infectious-contagious disease.
  12. Properly apply anatomopathological nomenclature and use suitable terminology in the field of infectious and contagious diseases.
  13. Recognise the pathogeny of diseases in domestic animals, and establish suitable associations between lesions, etiology and clinical signals.

Content

In this subject, the main diseases of infectious and parasitic origin of dogs, cats, rabbits and pigs will be studied. This (etiology, pathogenesis, type of clinical presentation, diagnosis, control and prevention. In those of parasitic origin, parasitic-host relationships are also considered and the recognition and identification of responsible parasites). On the other hand, the economic and sanitary importance of the different diseases studied is also considered.

 

Dogs, cats and rabbits (24 h)

Dogs
- Respiratory diseases: Respiratory canine complex (coughs of the kennels). Dirofilariosis.

- Systemic diseases: Brom. Contagious canine hepatitis.

- Digestive diseases: Parvovirosi. Coccidiosis, giardiosis.

- Diseases transmitted by vectors: Leishmaniasis. Ehrlichiosi.

- Reproductive processes: Herpesvirus. Neosporosis

- Skin or mucocutaneous diseases: Mange. Pyoderma.

- Helminthiasis. Toxocariosis

Cats
- Respiratory diseases: Introduction. Feline respiratory complex.

- Digestive diseases: Feline Panleukopenia. Diarrhea for protozoa

- Systemic diseases: Feline infectious peritonitis. Retroviral infections (leukemia-immunodeficiency)

- Diseases of the skin: Notohedral scabies. Ringworm.

- Helmintiasis. Dipylidiosis.

- Health programs in dogs and cats. Vaccination and deworming/deparasitation programs. 

 

Seminar: Health programs in dogs and feline colonies

 

Special Seminar: Discussion of clinical cases

 

Rabbits
- Parasitic diseases: Introduction. Encephalitozoonosis. Coccidiosis. Helmintosis digestive.

- Infectious processes: Introduction. Pasteurellosis. Mixomatosis. Haemorrhagic-viral disease. Enzootic enteropathy. Mucoid enteritis

- Health programs in rabbits. Vaccination and deworming programs.

 

Pigs (19 h)

- Digestive diseases: Introduction- Differential diagnoses. Neonatal diarrhea. Digestive complex of fattening pigs. Coccidiosis

- Respiratory diseases: Introduction - Differential diagnoses. Respiratory pig disease complex. Swine influenza

- Systemic diseases: Introductory scheme - differential diagnosis. Swine respiratory and reproductive syndrome. Pig Circovirosis

- Reproductive processes:  Introduction - Differential diagnoses. Porcine parvovirosis

- Neurological diseases -  Introduction - Differential diagnoses.  Bacterial meningitis other infections

- Cutaneous processes:Introduction - Differential diagnoses. 

- Arthropodosis and helminthosis

- Health, vaccination and deworming/deparasitation programs

Seminar: presentation and discussion of clinical cases


Methodology

The center of the learning process is the work of the student. The student learns working, being the mission of the teaching staff to help him / her in this task (1) providing information or showing the sources where it can be obtained and (2) directing his / her steps so that the learning process can be done effectively. Some activities may be imparted in English. Communication channels will be enabled (for example via CV Moodle)

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Master classes 40 1.6 1, 12, 3, 2, 4, 6, 11, 10, 9, 13, 7, 8
Seminars 3 0.12 1, 3, 2, 5, 11, 10
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 3 0.12 1, 12, 4, 6, 9, 13, 8
Type: Autonomous      
Autonommous study 56 2.24 1, 12, 2, 4, 6, 11, 10, 9, 13, 7, 8
Self-learning 20 0.8 1, 12, 3, 2, 4, 6, 11, 10, 9, 13, 7, 8

Assessment

The assessment will be individual and will be carried out according to the different training activities that have been programmed. It will be organized by evaluating each one of the blocks that integrate the subject. 

1- BLOCK 1 (dogs, cats and rabbits): 55%.It is an indispensable requirement for passing the block to have a mark >50% of the maximum score. Theory and cases average from 40%.

2- BLOCK 2 (pigs): 45%. It is an indispensable requirement for passing the block to have a mark >50% of the maximum score. Theory and cases average from 40%.

The final mark of Sanitat Animal III will be established as a weighted average between the two blocks that make up it. The student must pass the  two blocks of contents to pass the subject. If the student fails the partial exams there will be an additional  exam at the end of the semester.

The presentation to any of the scheduled exams implies that the student will receive a qualification in the minutes. Only the student who does not take a test will be considered "Not qualificable".

The subject will offer a single assessment. The single evaluation will consist of a single test in which the contents of the entire program of the subject will be evaluated. The test has the same sections and weightings as each of the partial exams. The single assessment test will be done on the same day, time and place as the last continuous assessment test of the subject. The single evaluation can be recovered on the day set for the recovery of the subject


Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Assessment on the diseases of dogs, cats and rabbits 55% 1.5 0.06 1, 12, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 10, 9, 13, 7, 8
Assessment about the diseases of pigs 45% 1.5 0.06 1, 12, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11, 10, 9, 13, 7, 8

Bibliography

- Greene, C.E. (2012). Infectious diseases of the dog and cat. 4a. ed. Saunders (W.B.) Co Ltd, Philadelphia. ISBN: 978-1-4160-6130-4

 - Gutierrez J., Ortuño A., Castellà J. (2006) Parasitologia Clínica: Parasitosis digestivas del perro y del gato. Multimédica Ediciones Veterinarias.

 - Varga M..Textbook of Rabbit Medicine (Second Edition), 2014, Pages 435-471. Chapter 14 - Infectious Diseases of Domestic Rabbits: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780702049798

 - Zimmermann, J.J., Karriker L., Ramirez A. , Schwartz K., Stevenson G. (2012). Diseases of swine. (10a ed.). Iowa State University Press, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-0-8138-2267-9

 

Altres fonts de consulta:

 Bloc 1: Malalties de gossos i gats

 - Bowman D.D., Hendrix C.M., Lindsay D.S., Barr S.C. (2002) Feline Clinical Parasitology. Iowa State University Press.

 - Hartmann, K., Levy, J.K. Feline Infectious Diseases. Self-Assessment Color Review (2011). Manson Publishing/The Veterinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-84076-099-6

 - Urquhart G.M., Armour J.A., Duncan J.L. (1998). Veterinary Parasitology. Blackwell Science.

 - Gutierrez JF., Ortuño A., Castellà J. (2006). Parasitologia Clínica: Parasitosis digestivas del perro y del gatoMultimedica Ediciones Veterinarias.

 - Feline infectious diseases: Self-assessment colour review. CRC ISBN 9781840760996  

 

Webs d'interès:

 - European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD) Guidelines: http://www.abcd-vets.org/Pages/Home.aspx

 - Current Topics in Canine and Feline Infectious Diseases (Nov. 2010):

 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01955616/40

 - Emerging and Reemerging Viruses in Dogs and Cats (July 2008):

 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01955616/38/4

 - A Concise Guide to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases of Dogs and Cats, Carter et al. (2005):

 http://www.ivis.org/special_books/carter/toc.asp

 - WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines Group: http://www.wsava.org/guidelines/vaccination-guidelines

 

 

Malalties de conills:

 - Harcourt-Brown, F. (2002) Textbook of Rabbit Medicine. Capítol 16. Elsevier Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-7506-4002-2: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780750640022

 - Rosell J.M. (coordinador) (2000). Enfermedades del conejo. Vols. I i II. Ediciones Mundiprensa. Madrid.

 

Web sobre cunicultura: http://www.conejos-info.com/

 Bloc 2: Malalties de porcs:

 - Jackson, P.G.G., Cockcroft, P.D. (2007). Handbook of Pig Medicine. Elsevier Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-7020-2828-1: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780702028281

 - Segalés, J., Martínez, J. (coordinadores). Manual de diagnóstico laboratorial porcino (2013). Servet Editorial-Grupo Asís Biomedia S.L. ISBN: 978-84-941014-0-3

  

Webs d'interès:

 - ThePigSite Quick Disease Guide: http://www.thepigsite.com/diseaseinfo/

 - 3tres3 La página del cerdo: http://www.3tres3.com/

 - European Association of Porcine Health Management: http://www.eaphm.org/

 - American Association of Swine Veterinarians: http://www.aasv.org/links.php

 

Altres fonts d'informació per estudiar la matèria de Sanitat Animal:

 - Oficina Mundial de Sanitat Animal: http://www.oie.int

 - Center for Food Security & Public Health (CFSPH): Animal Disease Information: http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/DiseaseInfo

 - Maclachlan, N.J., Dubovi E.J. (editors). Fenner's Veterinary Virology (2011) 4a. ed., Elsevier Inc. ISBN: 978-0-12-375158-4: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123751584

 

- Manual Merck de Veterinària: http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/index.html

 

 

Cal consultar la programació general del curs a la pàgina web de la Facultat de Veterinària (http://www.uab.cat/veterinaria/).          

Cal consultar l’espai docent de l’assignatura a la plataforma Veterinària Virtual (http://veterinariavirtual.uab.es/web/vetvir/vetvir.htm) o al Campus Virtual de l’assignatura.

 

Software

Not necessary any special software