- Docente: Antonietta Di Francesco
- Credits: 4
- SSD: VET/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Safety And Quality In Animal Production (cod. 5728)
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from Oct 31, 2023 to Jan 17, 2024
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to give a good knowledge of the basics of epidemiology and control of animal infectious diseases. The student must be able to apply epidemiologic methods to study the diffusion of communicable diseases into animal populations and to evaluate the efficacy of diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic actions.
Course contents
Epidemiological knowledge useful to strategies of diseases control. Host/parasite/environment relationships. Ways of transmission of infectious diseases. Direct and indirect prophylaxis. Strategies of control and eradication. Zoonoses surveillance. Zoonosis concept. Direttiva Comunitaria 2003/99/CE. Notifiable zoonoses. Epidemiological surveillance. Occupational risks. Brucellosis, Paratubercolosis, TSE. Welfare in cattle breeding. West Nile Disease.
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching materials and scientific papers uploaded by the teacher on the Virtuale platform.
Teaching methods
Traditional lectures and seminars on specific topics, with experts of veterinary public health. Kahoot.
Assessment methods
Oral exam: the teacher will evaluate the specific knowledge and the overall vision acquired by the student. The exam topics will be specified to the students at the beginning of the course and will exclusively concern the didactic material uploaded on Virtual.
Assessment: A very thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course, together with high skills of critical analysis, connection and a sure command of specific terminology will be evaluated with the maximum score (30-30L).
A thorough knowledge of the topics addressed in the course, together with good analytical and critical skills and the possession of a sure command of specific terminology will be evaluated with good marks (27-29).
A technically adequate preparation and a sufficient analytical capacity, even if not particularly articulated, expressed in a correct language, will produce fair evaluations (23-26).
Sufficient preparation and analytical skills, expressed in a language that is barely formally correct, will determine the sufficiency (18-22).
The final grade of the I.C. "Health of animal production" represents the arithmetic mean of the final evaluations of the two courses that compose it, calculated by excess. The assessments obtained in the various tests have no expiry date.
Students with DISABILITY or SLD who require adaptations to teaching during the lesson phase or in the final assessment phase, must contact the teacher by email, entering the reference staff of the appropriate DISABILITY or SLD service from which they followed.
Teaching tools
PC projector, overhead projector, network connected PC.
Office hours
See the website of Antonietta Di Francesco