Diseases Clinics II

Code: MVT15211I

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Veterinary Medicine

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

13. Ação climática - Tomar medidas urgentes para combater a mudança climática e seus impactos (*).

15. Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

The curricular unit aims to provide students with a global knowledge of the main bacterial, fungal and prionic infectious diseases of domestic animals, and when applicable, of wild animals. Practical laboratory and field classes aim to provide students with knowledge of the diagnostic tools available, prophylaxis measures and therapeutics of infectious diseases. Students will acquire practical knowledge through problem solving and clinical case studies and official eradication plans for the diseases addressed
The skills to be developed are:
• Ability to perform immunological tests (serological tests and tuberculinization)
• Ability to perform specific bacteriological diagnosis
• Ability to relate symptoms and pathological lesions with the aetiologic agent
• Ability to research the most appropriate therapeutic and prophylactic options

Seminars: Bacterial and fungal diseases of domestic animals: Etiology, characteristics of the agent, taxonomy, tropism and resistance in the environment; Epidemiology including doors of entry, transmission and contagiousness of infected materials; Pathogenesis in different species; Macroscopic and histopathological lesions attributable to the infectious agent; Symptomatology; Diagnostic laboratory tests
etiological; therapy and prophylactic measures. National and community legislation regarding animal health, namely eradication plans. Clinical cases study
PRACTICAL lectures: diagnosis of infectious diseases. Laboratory (immunological and bacteriological) and field diagnostic tests, interpretation of results and clinical case studies. Antimicrobial therapy, with special emphasis on the study of antimicrobial agents and susceptibility testing and resistance mechanisms.

Teaching Methods

Each week there will be a theorical (120 minutes) and a practical (120 minutes).
Theoretical pratical lectures will consist of plenary sessions dedicated to the acquisition of basic concepts and knowledge on bacterial and fungal diseases. The practical lectures will be held in the laboratory, in the field for large animal practice, study of official disease eradication or surveillance plans.

Assessment

Assessment by final written exam (on paper or via the Moodle platform) or oral exam is MANDATORY.
In the case of a written exam, a supplementary oral exam is mandatory for all students whose grade is between 9 and 10.9. The assignments presented in the practical classes are mandatory in the 1st year of attendance of the CU, with students being exempt in subsequent years. The final grade of the CU is subject to bonus based on the assessment of the assignments of practical classes as follows: assignments assessed as "sufficient" (+0 points to the final grade), "Good" (+0.25 points to the final grade) "Very good" (+0.5 points to the final grade).