Poultry production in the world (broilers, layers, turkeys) and production systems
Cost of poultry diseases. Impact of litter on diseases and productivity
Water quality
Intoxications (medications, mycotoxins, feed ingredients)
Environment, cleaning & disinfection, pest control
Medication, feed additives, antibiotic free production, growth promoters
Antibiotics and antibioresistance
WOAH presentations
Nutrition I, basic principles, requirements
Nutrition II, feed ingredient constraints, composition, quality, mycotoxins management, manufacturing
Introduction to metabolic diseases in poultry. Clinical biochemistry, a new science in avian medicine?
Blood parameters and what influences them
Hatching eggs and hatchery (production, storage, transportation, incubation)
Avian influenza
Important diseases related to public health (salmonellosis, tuberculosis, campylobacteriosis, chlamydiosis, erysipelosis)
Reportable diseases (IA & NC), detection and intervention programs, eradication or vaccination
Newcastle disease
Epidemiology I, basic principles, risk factors
Epidemiology II, infection pressure, measurement of the impact of an intervention
Epidemiology III, statistical calculation in epidemiology, control measures and biosecurity
Epidemiology IV, biosecurity
Immune system
Vaccination techniques
Laboratory techniques in immunology, serology and bacteriology. Laboratory serology results interpretation
How to build an adapted vaccination program?
Animal welfare in poultry production
Genetic selection, evolution and how to reach the genetic potential
Management of communication during a sanitary crisis, the importance of a rapid reaction and of a coordinated reaction
The importance intestinal health in poultry
Internal parasites of poultry (broilers, layers, turkeys)
External parasites of poultry (broilers, layers, turkeys)
Internet research
Anatomy, physiology of the respiratory, digestive and reproductive systems, the importance of histopathology and review of the avian specificity, what sample to collect, for what?
What are the most important poultry diseases in the world