ANIMAL HEALTH DEPARTAMENT
FACULTY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
UNIVERSITY OF CORDOBA
Animal Health Departament gathers two academic knowledge areas, Parasitology and Animal Health, in which 29 people are included: 17 permanent professors (lecturers), 4 associate professors, 1 non-permanent professor, 3 fellowship researchers and 4 technicians. There are three sections in the Dept.: Microbiology, Parasitology and Infectious Diseases.
It is located in the Animal Health Building, in the Universitary Campus of Rabanales.
Teaching activities are performed in the Degrees of Veterinary Science and Food Science and Technology, with more than 1.700 students every year. Post-graduate teaching included the academic master of “Animal Medicine, Health and Production” and different PhD programs.
Research activities are carried out in three different (PAI) Research Groups within the Departament. Funded resarch projects from local, national and international institutions are actually being developed in different topics: helminth vaccines in ruminants, diagnostic tools in toxoplasmosis, development of new diagnostic tools in porcine caseous lymphadenitis, tuberculosis in domestic and wild animals...
