03832 - Pig Pathology

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 0487)

Learning outcomes

The course has the aim to give an in-depth knowledge on infectious diseases of swine

Course contents

Parvovirosis, PMWS, PRRS, Erysipelas, Atrophic Rhinitis, Enzootic pneumonia of swine, colibacillosis, swine influenza

Readings/Bibliography

Disease of Swine, ed. Straw BE, D'Allaire S, Mengeling WL, and Taylor DJ, 8th ed., Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA 1999.

Malattie del suino. Piccin, 1996

Course slide: http://www2.vet.unibo.it/staff/ostanello/Didattica/file%20lucidi/lucidi.htm

Teaching methods

Theoretical classes

Assessment methods

Oral examination at the end of the course

Teaching tools

PC projector, overhead projector, slide projector, network connected PC, VCR

Links to further information

http://www2.vet.unibo.it/staff/OSTANELLO/

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Ostanello