Veterinary Clinical Microbiology

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This elective course will provide students with the experience in a veterinary infectious disease diagnostic microbiology laboratory. The course will familiarize the students with the potentials and limitations of modern veterinary clinical microbiology laboratory. Areas of focus include the process involved in sample submission, completion of submission forms and specific test requests, hands-on experience and/or demonstration of the current methods used in veterinary pathogen detection, antimicrobial susceptibility testing using the minimum inhibitory concentration method (MIC), test results interpretation and application of test results in veterinary practice.