MVFI 607 : Advanced Microbiology

Department

Academic Program

Type

Elective

Credits

Prerequisite

Overview

1. The student should know and understand the importance of the bacterial and mycotic in the life cycle of the fish.

2. Identifying the pathogenicity and diagnostic differentiation between bacterial diseases and fungal diseases, in addition to their impact on fish health.

3. The ability of students to identify and isolation of bacterial and mycotic microorganisms from fish in the Lab and final diagnosis will apply.

4. Identify veterinary medicinal drugs used in the prevention and treatment of infected fish and the mechanism for their use.

Intended learning outcomes

A. Knowledge & understand

A.1 Knowledge of the different types of bacterial and mycotic diseases that infect fish wild and farms.

A.2 Identify the pathogenesis of bacterial and mycotic diseases in fish and how to differential diagnosis between them.

A.3 Recognize the anatomical and histological differentiation of fish infection with bacterial and mycotic diseases.

A.4 Describe the traditional methods and modern techniques in diagnosing bacterial and mycotic diseases.

B. Mental skills (Intellectual capacity)

B.1 Distinguish between different bacterial diseases as well as fungal diseases affecting marine and farmed fish.

B.2 Ability to use medicinal drugs to treat diseases caused by bacterial and mycotic infections that affect farmed fish.

B.3 Capacity to direct the fish farm in a healthy direction free from bacterial and fungal diseases.

B.4 The ability to detect early bacterial and fungal diseases and how to determine the exact cause of the pathogen inside the fish farm.

C. (Practical & professional skills)

C.1 The ability to develop a preventive program within the fish farm.

C.2 The ability to diagnose initial pathological bacterial and fungal diseases while the veterinarian is inside the fish farm

C.3 Collect samples and transport them to the laboratory for analysis and final diagnosis of the disease.

C.4 Capacity the give suitable drugs and medicine.

D. Generic and transferable skills

D.1 Work as a medical team to treat the outbreak of a specific type of bacterial and mycotic disease in fish farms.

D.2 Conducting scientific studies to search for problems facing fish farms due to bacterial and mycotic diseases.

D.3 Contribute to building a database of marine biodiversity by listing parasites that infect marine fish and other marine animals.

D.4 Communicate effectively with public colleagues and appropriate authorities.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures using the White Board, Lectures using the projector (Data Show), and Use of audio-visual techniques. Practical and field training

Methods of assessments

Evaluation No.	Evaluation methods		Evaluation duration	Evaluation Weight	percentage	Evaluation date (week)
1sth evaluation	1sth midterm exam		2hrs	43%	10	In the 6 weeks of the study
2nd evaluation	2nd midterm exam		2hrs	21%	10	At the 10 weeks of the study
3rd evaluation	Final exam	Paper exam	3hrs	100%	50	At the end of the course
		Pract exam	10-15hr	100%	20	At the end of the course
		Oral exam	3hrs	100%	10	At the end of the course

Reference address	Publisher	Edition	Author	Location found
Books course	CRC Press fish	1st Edition	Stephen A. Smith 2019	https://www.routledge.com/Fish-Diseases-and-medicine/Smith/p/book/9781498727860
	Bacterial Fish Pathogens	Fifth edition	Brain Austin and Dawn Austin	https://books.google.com.ly/books/about/Bacterial_Fish_Pathogens.html?id=zessCVZO7yoC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
	Handbook of Fish Disease	1st Edition	Alaa Eldin Eissa et al., 2014	Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Tripoli
	Fish Medicine	1993	Michael K. Stoskopf.	ISBN: 0-7216-2629-7
Scientific papers	Report about fish bacterial diseases	2004	Toranzo A.E	https://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/b49/04600220.pdf
Scientific papers	Bacterial Fish Diseases and Molecular Tools for Bacterial Fish Pathogens Detection	2009	Ana Roque, Sonia A. Soto-Rodríguez and Bruno Gomez-Gil	file:///C:/Users/Veterinarian/Downloads/Ch-03_Roqueetal..pdf

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