Essential veterinary education in the virology of domestic animals, wild animals and birds: diagnosis and pathogenesis of viral infections.
An education in veterinary virology should establish a basis for life-long learning and enable veterinary graduates to address professionally the control and eradication of viral diseases, both locally and globally. It is therefore more important that the curriculum focuses on a sound understanding of the nature and behaviour of viruses and their interactions with animal hosts, rather than imparting detailed information on an ever-increasing number of individual viral diseases in a widening range of animal species. Graduate veterinarians should be prepared with a comprehensive knowledge of the nature of viruses and their close dependence on the hosts thatthey infect, as well as a good understanding of pathogenesis, immunology, epidemiology, diagnostic approaches and control options. All these are necessary if the profession is successfully to meet familiar and new challenges in viral diseases in a wide range of host species, under different management conditions, in various geographic areas of the world.
School of Veterinary Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
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D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001717:Birds; D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology; D003479:Curriculum; D004520:Education, Veterinary; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D013045:Species Specificity; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000276:immunology; D014773:Virology / Q000193:education*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology
D014765:Viral Vaccines