Course description

During Veterinary Toxicology, students learn the causes, symptoms, diagnostic methods, therapy and prognosis of the most common poisonings in veterinary practice. We put high emphasis on providing first day skills of the recognition and successful treatment of poisonings. Educating the different sensitivity of animal species to toxic substances, specific antidotes and their dosages are of high importance in the course’s curriculum.

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Lectures theme

Lecture sCHEDULE – veterinary toxicology

2024/2025. I. semester

 Time of lectures:  Tuesday 12¹⁵-14⁰⁰ Magyary-Kossa Lecture Hall

 

Week 1 10 Sept	Introduction to toxicology, sources of poisonings. Toxicokinetic, toxicodynamic. Factors influencing toxicity. Diagnosis and treatment of poisonings. Dr. Orsolya Farkas
Week 2 17 Sept	Ethylene glycol poisoning Dr. Ákos Jerzsele
Week 3 24 Sept	Pesticides I. Insecticides, molluscicides Dr. Orsolya Farkas
Week 4 1 Oct	Pesticides II. Rodenticides Dr. Adrienn Mercédesz Veres
Week 5 8 Oct	Pesticides III. Herbicides, fungicides Dr. Erzsébet Gere
Week 6 15 Oct	Drug poisonings I. Dr. Adrienn Mercédesz Veres
Week 7 22 Oct	Drug poisonings II. – Dr. Adrienn Mercédesz Veres Food poisonings – Dr. Zita Karancsi
Week 8 29 Oct	Metal poisonings: Mercury, lead, arsenic, selenium, iron, copper, zinc Dr. Erzsébet Gere
Week 9 5 Nov	Feed and water associated poisonings (NaCl, urea, nitrate-nitrite, ionophores) Dr. György Csikó
Week 10 12 Nov	Industrial toxicosis (cadmium, fluoride, PCB-s, dioxins) Household poisonings: acids, alkali, detergents, parfums Dr. Csaba Kővágó
Week 11 19 Nov	Toxic gases Dr. György Csikó
Week 12 26 Nov	Toxicology of mycotoxins Dr. György Csikó
Week 13 3 Dec	Plant poisonings Dr. Orsolya Farkas
Week 14 10 Dec	Poisonings of animal origin Dr. Csaba Kővágó

 

Budapest, 01.09.2024.

Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

Head of Department

Evaluation description

VETERINARY TOXICOLOGY

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Fall semester, academic year 2024/2025

The requirements of the subject “Veterinary TOXIcology” are as follows:

 

Toxicology is a one-semester subject. Lectures are presented every week (in 2 hours).

 

Completion of the semester requires:

– Regular visiting of the lectures

– Having professor’s signature in black book.

 

Examination:

The examination is a written test. Black book should be given to the examiner teacher in the beginning of the test.

 

Topics of the examination are lecture handouts and other files available on the home page.

 

Preconditions for signing up to the test are:

– completion of the semester (see above)

– successful examination on Veterinary Pharmacology (both I and II)

 

Dates for examination: 6 different dates will be provided during the examination period. These will be announced before the exam period. Results will be available in 3 working days after the exam in Neptun.

 

Postponing of examination is allowed only once. More postponing is considered as repeated examination. Each student is allowed to have maximum three examinations per semester. If a student cannot attend the exam due to sickness, they must notify the Department on the day of the exam at latest, and they must provide a medical certificate to justify their medical condition within 5 working days.

 

 

According to the score of test students will be evaluated by marks as follows:

excellent (5) – >90%

good (4) – >80%

medium (3) – >70%

satisfactory (2) – >60%

unsatisfactory (1) – ≤60%

 

 

Preferred literature:

Lecture notes

Roder, J.D.: Veterinary toxicology. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
The Merck Veterinary Manual (10^th edition)

Timbrel, J.A.: Principles of biochemical toxicology. Taylor and Francis, London, 1994.
Osweiler, G.D.: Toxicology, Williams and Wilkins, London, 1996.
Gfeller, W.-Messioner, S.P.: Handbook of small animal toxicology and poisonings. Mosby, London, 1998.
Plumlee, K.H.: Clinical veterinary toxicology. Mosby, St. Louis, 2003.
Gupta, R.C.: Veterinary toxicology, basic and clinical principles. Elsevier, Oxford, 2007.
Fowler, M.E.: Veterinary zootoxicology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1993. Budapest, 1^st September 2009.

 

Budapest, 1^st September 2024

 

 

 

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Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

head of department, associate professor