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Lecturer(s)
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Smola Jiří, prof. MVDr. CSc.
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Svoboda Martin, doc. MVDr. Ph.D.
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Fajt Zdeněk, MVDr. Ph.D.
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Vaňhara Jonáš, MVDr. Bc. Ph.D.
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Vašek Jan, MVDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Lectures 7. semestr 1. Importance of pig production, evaulation of its level and effeciency. Globalization of production and its effect on pig breeding and health. 2. Modern systems of pig production and pig production medicine. Methods of herd evaulation. Control and analysis of health status, system of herd diagnosis. 3. Behaviour and welfare evaluation. Behaviour of healthy and sick pigs, effect of welfare level on pig health. Effect of enviroment on pig health status. Physical and chemical factors of enviroment, technology of pig stabling and feeding, social enviroment. 4. Rules of vaccination and vaccination programs in pig herds. Making of models of vaccination programs. 5. Methods of stable and laboratory diagnosis of swine. Test diagnostic value, optimalization of sample collection, analysis and interpretation of test results. 6. Non-infectious diseases of swine. Metabolic diseases, over feed of pigs. 7. Biosecurity and and infectious diseases transmission. Routes of transmisson, factors of farm biosecurity. 8. Antimicrobial drug for treatment and profylaxis. Pharmacology, resistance in infectious diseases, rules of feed and water medication. 9. Probiotics, prebiotic, aciditics. Management of inestinal mikroflóra. 10. Management of herd health with low morbidity. System of preventive diagnosis. Methods of herd recovery. 11. Anesthesia and surgical procedures in swine. Operations of cryptorchid and hernias 12. Minerals and vitamis deficiency. Effect on health and production. Methods of prevention of piglet´s mortality, infectious and non-infectious. Practical training 7. semestr 1. Clinical examination of individual patient. Condititon, TRIAS, VETIS programe use. 2. Rules of drug administration. Commission, keep, expedition, consumption and evidence of drugs. Control of clinic effect of treatment. 3. Rules of samples collection. Live, eutanized, dead animal. Completation of laboratory requistition and sample transport. 4. Blood collection for haematological and biochemical diagnosis. Results interpretation and diagnosis. 5. Bacteriological, virological, serological a parazitical examination. Result interpretation and diagnosis. 6. Drugs registrated for pigs. Antimicrobiological substances, choise and use 7. Pig imunisation. Use of live and inactive vaccines. Use of imunological castration.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lectures, Clinical work
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Learning outcomes
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The course in Diseases of Swine is a part of the curriculum offered by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that prepares students in the field of physiology and pathology of pigs, diagnosis, therapy and prevention of health disturbances of individual categories of pigs and of whole herds under various conditions of production. The aim of the course is to prepare students to be able, based on current scientific knowledge, to furnish suitable conditions for the production of pigs, to pursue active creation of swine health as the basic condition of utilization of the optimal growth intensity and of genetically given conversion capability. The study of the influence of technical and technological factors as well as of the effect of environment, man, organization of meat production and the process of the production upon health of pigs and thus upon performance and quality of pork meat, forms an integral part of professional education of students. The course follows up subjects concerned with theoretical basis of studies and courses on application of this theoretical basis particularly on nutrition, pathological anatomy, microbiology and immunology, animal production and genetics.
1) theoretical knowledge The student is able to correctly interpret the results of clinical examinations and laboratory analyzes performed on pigs. The student is able to evaluate the influence of technical and technological factors, including the influence of the environment, humans, the organization of pork production and work processes on the health of pigs. 2) practical skills The student is able to perform a basic clinical examination (TRIAS, record keeping in medical records). The student is able to take blood samples from different age categories of pigs. 3) competences The student is able to perform a complete clinical examination and demonstrate the ability to make clinical conclusions / decisions The student is able to collect, store and transport samples, select appropriate diagnostic tests, interpret and understand the limitations of test results.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written credit test
Credit conditions: 1. Participation in practical exercises is mandatory. Any absence must be compensated in agreement with the teacher. 2. Mastering the discussed issues - continuous control by interview. 3. Checking the knowledge by a written test in the teaching block, which is determined by the teacher. 4. The exams in the discipline consist of a practical and a theoretical part.
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Recommended literature
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Carr et al. Pig Health. CRC Press, 2018.
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Cowart, P. Ross; Castel, W. Stan. An outline of swine diseases - a handbook. Iowa, USA, 2001. ISBN 0-8138-2898-8.
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Taylor. Pig Diseases. 5m Publishing, 2013.
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Zimmerman et al. Diseases of Swine. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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Zimmerman et al. Diseases of Swine. Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
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