Course title
公衆衛生学実習   [Practice in Veterinary Public Health]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year 3  Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 01VN3305
Instructor(s)
石原 加奈子, 藤川 浩   [ISHIHARA Kanako, FUJIKAWA Hiroshi]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office 3-211  Email address

Course description
This course provides students assay procedure for zoonosis and environmental hygienics. Students learn the basis and several techniques for diagnosis of zoonosis and examination of air and drinking water. The subject is one of the applied veterinary science subjects.
The lectures of this course have the firsthand experiences on veterinary public health, food safety, animal hygiene in some administrative agencies. This course is set up based the experiences. In addition, guest speakers from some administrative agencies will talk about some actual practices as public veterinarians. Students could observe the public institutions for public health, and learn the field.
Expected Learning
Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to:
1) examination for diagnosis of zoonosis and analysis of epidemiologocal data for infection
2) examination for analysis of air and water regime

The Diploma Policy, D (To learn grobal infection control and food safety)
https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/
Course schedule
(1) Explanation of biosafety regulation
(2) Determination of viable count using standard plate
(3) Determination of numbers of coliform bacteria by MPN
(4) Examination for drinking water
(5) Visit of Public health research laboratory for the examination of drinking water
(6) Visit of sewage plant
(7) Air analysis I (Air temperature, humidity and air power)
(8) Air analysis II (Gas concentration and bacterial counts)
(9) Diagnosis of zoonosis I (pathogen detection by PCR)
(10) Diagnosis of zoonosis II (isolation and identification of pathogen)
(11) Molecular epidemiology of zoonosis
(12) Epidemiology of zoonosis I (t-test)
(13) Epidemiology of zoonosis II (descriptive epidemiology)
(14) Epidemiology of zoonosis III (evaluation of diagnosis methods)
(15) Examination
Prerequisites
Students must wear a white coat and footwear for laboratory and tie their hair up for safety. Do not enter and exit laboratory without reasonable excuse. Review of practice of microbiology, practice of Public Health is needed.
This course consists of 45 hours for practice hours, as specified by the University.
Required Text(s) and Materials
Practice of Veterinary Public Health (GAKUSOSYA)
Students should check and prepare the handouts on Moodle.
References
Assessment/Grading
Examination, 40%
Report, 40%
Assignment in practice hours, 20%
Message from instructor(s)
If students could not understand the experimental procedures, how to use lab wares, please ask lectures before operations.
Course keywords
zoonosis, environmental public health
Office hours
Students could ask lectures during the practice hours. Lectures could also answer, when they stay laboratories.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
2/28/2019 10:50:43 AM