43670 - Avian Pathology

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

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, Infectious anemia, Adenovirus infections; 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 e Fioretti A. - Manuale di Patologia Aviare- Le Point Veterinaire Italie - Milano, 2009
• Saif Y.M. (Editor-in-Chief), Fadly A.M., Glisson J. R. ,  McDougald L.R., Nolan L.K.,  Swyne D.E. (Associate Editors) Diseases of Poultry, 12th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, June 2008.
• Pattison M.,  McMullin P., Bradbury J.,  Alexander D.  Poultry Diseases, 6th Edition.,Saunders Ltd, 2007.
• 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

multiple choise tests during the course and a final oral exam

Teaching tools

Projector, personal computer - Visit to a poultry farm

Links to further information

https://campus.cib.unibo.it/; http://partnersah.vet.cornell.edu/vet/species ;

Office hours

See the website of Elena Catelli