Lesson 4: IMPORTANT EVENTS IN VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY Flashcards
is the application of microbiological principles to identify and treat infectious diseases and the diagnostic methods, immune response to diseases, epidemiology and public health, preventive measures to animal diseases, regulatory veterinary medicine, and food safety as well.
Veterinary Microbiology
discovered the first animal vaccine against Fowl Cholera. Since then, production of vaccines against some economically important livestock diseases has become very important as it lead to disease prevention or eradication.
Louis Pasteur
highly contagious viral disease of ruminants was completely eradicated in 2011 by immunization combined with quarantine method.
Rinderpest
Though still endemic in other countries, this has been completely eradicated in the Philippines in 2005
Foot-and-mouth disease
one of the most earliest studied diseases in both humans and animals.
Tuberculosis
A bacteria that veterinary medicine contributed to the dramatic reduction in animal sources of human exposure by pasteurization of dairy products and its treatment.
Mycobacterium sp.
the ability of a pathogenic microbe to develop a resistance to the effects of an antimicrobial medication.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR)
A veterinarian who demonstrated the specific effect of antibiotic streptomycin in inhibiting tuberculosis in both animals and people.
W.H. Feldman 1944-1945
transferrable to humans which has become a global health threat to both human and animals. indiscriminate use of antibiotics in treatment of infectious animal diseases contributed to their rise.
antimicrobial resistant microorganisms or superbugs
very important in preventing the spread of infection, which is a very timely reminder to all of us especially with the on-going Covid-19 pandemic.
Proper Personal Hygiene
opposite to cellular microorganisms, they need host cells to reproduce. An example is a virus.
Acellular microorganisms
microorganisms or germs cause a disease in humans, animals or other living things.
Germ theory of disease
a theory that states that life spontaneously appear from
non-living matter.
Spontaneous generation theory
a French chemist who ended the debate on the theory of spontaneous
generation and also formally initiated the germ theory of diseases.
Louis Pasteur
A guideline that Robert Koch created in establishing a disease and pathogen relationship
Koch Postulates