- Docente: Elena Catelli
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 0487)
Learning outcomes
The students will know the most common diseases that affect the poultry, the outlines of the disease control performed by vaccination and/or biosecurity and the method for carrying out the diagnostic investigation of poultry pathological problems
Course contents
Introduction to the poultry industry; Biosecurity and immunoprophilaxis; Isolation and identification of avian pathogens (outlines); How to carry out a field investigation; Salmonellosis; Pullorum disease; Fowl tiphoid; Arizoonosis; Colibacillosis; Fowl Colera; Infectious Coryza; Avian Tubercolosis, Mycoplasmosis; Some other bacterial diseases. Avian influenza, Newcastle Disease; Avian Pneumovirus infections; Marek's diseas and other viral neoplasms; Infectious bronchitis; Gumboro Disease, Avian Encefalomielitis; Fowlpox; Reovirus; Infectious laringotracheitis; Parasitic diseases: Coccidiosis, Histomoniasis, Trichomoniasis; Ectoparasites, Worms; Fungal diseases
Readings/Bibliography
- Printed copies of the Power Point files used fot the lectures available on https://campus.cib.unibo.it/
- Asdrubali G., Patologia Aviare - Gestione ed igiene degli
allevamenti avicoli, Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 1996.
- Jordan F.T.W., Patologia Aviare. Edizione italiana a cura di De Luca G. e Bertuzzi S., Essegivi - Edagricole, Bologna, 1995.
- Calnek B.W, Barnes H.J., Beard C.W., Mc Dougald L.R. and Saif Y.M. Patologia Aviare, 10a edizione. Ed. italiana a cura di Quaglio G., Gallazzi D., Cerruti Sola S., Tacconi G., Camarda A. Capua I., Franciosi C. Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p.A., Padova, 2001
- Randall C.J. A Cololour Atlas of Diseases and Disorders of Domestic fowls and Turkeys. Mosby, 1990
Teaching methods
For each disease the aetiological, epidemiological , diagnostic and prophylactic aspects will be considered. The lectures will be supported by showing pictures of microcopic and macroscopic lesions, obtained from field outbreaks or experimental infections. Visits to poultry farms.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Projector, personal computer - Visit to a poultry farm
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Elena Catelli