Training course on Foreign Animal Diseases

September 13 - 16, 2010

Novembre 15 - 19, 2010

Teramo (Italy)

This course aims at providing Italian Public Veterinary Officers belonging to the National Competent Authority, the Regional Veterinary Services, and Istituti Zooprofilattici Sperimentali with the necessary tools to recognise, detect, diagnose and control vector borne and other transmittable exotic diseases.

The improvement of such skills will be enhanced through the achievement of the following learning objectives:

• to learn disease characteristics in terms of aetiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, symptomatology, pathology, diagnosis and prophylaxis;
• to learn how to use and apply appropriate methods to define a monitoring and continuous surveillance system of exotic diseases, according to the geographical and climatic characteristics of the belonging territory.