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Designation : Veterinary Surgeon
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Veterinary Surgeon Exam Syllabus :
Milk and Meat Hygiene, Food Safety and Public Health :
Milk hygiene in relation to public health. Microbial flora of milk and milk products. Sources of milk contamination during collection and transport of milk and processing of dairy products. Control of milk and milk product contamination.
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Hygienic handling/ management of dairy equipment Quality control of milk and milk products. Milk hygiene practices in India and other countries. Legislation and standards for milk and milk products. Milk as a source of disease transmission.
Pathological conditions associated with the transport of food animals. Elements of meat inspection. Hygiene in abattoirs. Ante-mortem inspection of meat animals. Humane slaughter of animals. Postmortem inspection of meat animals.
Methods of inspection of meat. Rigor mortis and examination of lymph nodes. Specialization of meat. Health implications of emergency and causality slaughter. Hygienic disposal of unsound meat. Inspection of poultry and aquatic foods (fish) for human consumption.
Occupational health hazards in meat processing plants. Meat as a source of disease transmission. Food safety, definition, hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) system and chemical and microbial toxicities associated with milk, meat and aquatic foods.
Risk analysis : assessment and management and food safety measures. Toxic residues (pesticides, antibiotics, metals and hormones) and microbial toxins in food and their health hazards. Types of bio-hazards. Sanitary and phytosanitary measures in relation to foods of animal origin and aquatic foods.
International and national food safety standards {Office International des Epizootics (OIE), World Trade Organisation (WTO), Sanitary and Phyto sanitary (SPS) and Codex Alimentarius}.
Veterinary Epidemiology and Zoonoses :
Definitions and aims of epidemiology. Factors influencing occurrence of livestock diseases and production. Ecological basis and natural history of diseases. Sources, Storage, retrieval and representation of disease information/data.
Epidemiological hypothesis. Epidemiological methods : descriptive, analytical (observational), experimental, theoretical (modeling), serological and molecular. Survey of animal diseases. Surveillance and monitoring of livestock diseases.
Animal disease forecasting. Strategies of disease management: prevention, control and eradication. Economics of animal diseases. National and International regulations on livestock diseases.
Role of OIE and laws on international trade on animals and animal products Definition, history and socio-economic impact of zoonotic diseases.
Classification of zoonoses and approaches to their management. New, emerging, re-emerging and occupational zoonoses. . Role of domestic, wild, pet and laboratory animals and birds in transmission of zoonoses. Zoonotic pathogens as agents of bio-terrorism.
Reservoirs, clinical manifestations 52 in animals and humans, and the management of the following zoonoses: rabies, Japanese encephalitis, Kyasanur forest disease, influenza, anthrax, brucellosis, tuberculosis, leptospirosis, listeriosis, plague, rickettsiosis, chlamydiosis and dermatophytosis.
Food borne zoonoses: salmonellosis, staphylococcosis, clostridial food poisoning, campylobacteriosis, helmintrrosis.toxoplasmosis and sarcocystosis. Veterinary Public Health Administration.
Environment and Environmental Hygiene :
Definition, scope and importance. Ecosystem : types, structure and functions. Food chains. Bio-diversity uses, threats and conservation. Natural resources: forest, mineral, soil and water their uses and abuses.
Environmental pollution-causes, and effects. Control measures of air, water, soil, marine, thermal and noise pollution. Nuclear hazards. Biosafety and risk assessment Environment Protection Acts and related issues.
Disaster management Sources of water supply and water quality, Sources of water contamination.
Bacteriology of water. Physical, chemical, microbiological and biological evaluation of water. Water purification. Disposal of sewage and farm wastes. Health implications of farm wastes. Sanitation and disinfection of animal houses.
Recycling of farm wastes. Sources of air pollution within animal houses and its effect on animal health and production Ventilation and ventilation systems within animal houses and specialized laboratories. Prevention and control of air and water-borne diseases.
Problems of atmospheric pollution (acid rah, depletion of ozone layer, methane production, green house effect and global warming). Tannery, wool, bone and blood meal industry pollution and its control. Stray and fallen animal management Pollution due to industrial wastes.
Veterinary Gynecology :
Clinical evaluation and abnormalities of reproductive tracts in domestic animals. Delayed Puberty and sexual maturity. Estrus detection. Aberrations of estrus and estrous cycle. Seasonal breeding. Pregnancy diagnosis- different methods- in different species.
Superfoetation and Superfecundation. Fertility, Infertility & sterility- Anatomical, hereditary, nutritional, managerial, hormonal and infectious causes. Anoestrus, ovulatory defects and cystic ovarian degeneration. Repeat breeding : Fertilization failure, early embryonic mortality.
Specific & non- specific infections affecting genital organsendometritis, cervicitis, vaginitis. Fertility parameters. Sexual hearth control and reproductive hearth management. Clinical use of hormones in female infertility.
Breeding management mismating, psuedopregnancy, transmissible venereal tumor-(TVT) in bitches Induction of estrus, Synchronization of estrus, Follicular Dynamics, Ovulation, Superovulation, and Embryo Transfer Technology. Immune-modulation for enhancement of fecundity