Hygiene and pathology data of farm animals

1. Introduction to Hygiene, Food hygiene

2. Hygiene of the stable

3. Disinfection, antisepsis and asepsis

4. Animal Grooming

5. Biological methods of treatment

6. Diagnostics

7. Definitions of pathological conditions

8. Description of diseases

9. Metabolic diseases

10. Infectious diseases

11. Non-infectious diseases

12. Diseases of the genital system and the breast

13. Zoonotic Diseases

Laboratory exercises:

• Evaluation of housing conditions for productive animals: Ventilation, lighting and environmental rearing conditions. Breeding density.

• Basic principles of stable hygiene: Disinfection-disinfestations. Cleaning and disinfection. Natural and chemical disinfectants.

• Methodology of clinical examination of animals: Overview, Palpation, Hearing, Thermometry, Special tests.

• Isolation of DNA from samples collected from productive animals.

• Molecular detection (PCR) of pathogenic microorganisms.

• Handling of productive animals in the context of their clinical examination, collection of samples. Principles of sampling and transporting samples to the laboratory.

• Breast health: Methodology for clinical diagnostic investigation of mastitis cases.

• Repeat Laboratory I.

• Repeat Laboratory II.