VETS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dirofilaria Immitis, Animal Welfare, Protozoa

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Veterinary Medicine
• Course: VETS20015
• Professor: Andrew Fisher

Document Summary

Intended learning outcomes: differentiate between infectious agents of disease as causes of subclinical. & clinical disease: outline the importance of subclinical disease for animal production & performance. Outlines: the consequences of subclinical disease in individual and groups of animals, the significance of subclinical disease for transmission of infection (carrier animals, how subclinical disease can progress to clinical disease. Infectious causes of disease: bacteria, parasites, protozoa, cestodes, nematodes, arthropods, viruses, parapox- orf, scabby mouth, fungi, prions. Infectious diseases utilises all the knowledge you have develop through out the year: problem solving- interaction between, genetics, scientific method, nutrition, environment, toxins, welfare, infectious disease. The consequences of subclinical disease in individual animals: subclinical disease- disease that does not have easily detectable signs and requires further investigation for diagnosis. In the individual animal it is generally not recognisable, except due to other factors (often environment) it becomes clinical disease. If sub-clinical disease remains sub-clinical at the individual level it may never result in problems.