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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
VET 3001	SPECIAL MICROBIOLOGY	COMPULSORY	2	2	0	3

Offered By

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VOLKAN ÖZAVCI

Offered to

Veterinary Medicine

Course Objective

To train students who are having an information about bacterial and mycotic diseases of non-poultry animals and their epidemiology, laboratory diagnosis, control and vaccines, control of zoonotic diseases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Students will have knowledge about nomenclature of bacterial species that cause disease in domestic animals according to their colony and individual characteristics and morphology.
2	Students know the ways of transmission and pathogenesis of bacteria.
3	Students know and apply the rules of sampling and transport process and laboratory diagnostic methods of bacterial infections.
4	Students know the hygiene rules and vaccinations to prevent diseases.
5	Students apply the animal health provisions in notifiable diseases and know the zoonotic diseases.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	General information about the course and introduction.
2	Streptococci and Staphylococcal infections.
3	Corynebacterium and Rhodococcus infections
4	Actinomycet, Nocardia and Dermatophilosis infections
5	Listeria infections
6	Bacillus infections
7	Introduction to Clostridium infections
8	MIDTERM EXAM
9	Clostridium perfringens infections
10	Clostridium novyi and Clostridium haemolyticum infections
11	Tuberculosis and paratuberculosis infections
12	Enterobacterium infections
13	Pseudomonas infections
14	Bartonella and Burkholderia infections
15	Brucella infections

Recomended or Required Reading

1.Veteriner Mikrobiyoloji (Bakteriyel Hastalıklar) (N. Aydın, M. Izgür, K. Serdar Diker, H. Yardımcı, Ö. Esendal, J. Paracıkoğlu, M. Akan, Ilke-Emek Yayınları, Ankara, 2006)

2. Veterinary Microbiology- Bacterial and Fungal Agents of Animal Disease (J. Glenn Songer, Karen W. Post, Elsevier Saunders, USA, 2005)

3.Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease (P.J. Quinn, B.K. Markey, M.E. Carter, W.J. Donnelly, F.C. Leonard, Blackwell, Great Britain, 2002)

4. Clinical Veterinary Microbiology (P.J. Quinn, M.E. Carter, B. Markey, G.R. Carter, Mosby, London, 2000)

5.Clinical Veterinary Microbiology (P.J. Quinn, M.E. Carter, B. Markey, G.R. Carter, Mosby, London, 2000)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Experiment, Discussion, Self-Study, Work on Web and Book basis

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	FIN	FINAL EXAM
3	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4	RST	RESIT
5	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The students will be evaluated with the questions to be asked in the midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Dokuz Eylül Üniversity Veterinary Faculty
Kiraz/IZMIR
Telephone: 0 (232) 572 35 30
E-mail: volkan.ozavci@deu.edu.tr

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	14	2	28
Practice (Reflection)	14	2	28
Preparation for midterm exam	1	2	2
Preparation for final exam	1	2	2
Preparing presentations	2	2	4
Group homework preperation	2	2	4
Midterm	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			70

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.6	PO.7	PO.10	PO.16	PO.17	PO.18
LO.1	5	5	4	4	5	5	5
LO.2	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
LO.3	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
LO.4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
LO.5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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