DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY AND FORENSIC VETERINARY MEDICINE
Research activities
- Patho- and morphogenesis of infectious and non-infectious diseases
of honey bee, fish, poultry, swine, rabbits, pet animals.
Diagnostic work
Besides education and research, the third important task of this
department is to do diagnostic work for the clinical departments of the
faculty, for veterinarians, veterinary clinics, zoological gardens and
for owners bringing or sending examination material. The case number is
varying between 3500 and 4500 per year (in the year 2002. it was 3910),
about 50% of which is sent from the clinical departments of the faculty.
This number includes the growing number of biopsies (excised tumours,
synovial fluid, blood smears, liquor, nasal discharge etc.), which
represent about 30% of the total. The clinical departments and other
veterinary clinics are overrepresented in the pet animal cases (dog,
cat), while different poultry species also make a rather high portion
(10-15%) of the diagnostic work. Sheep and pigs arrive in a decreasing
number year by year, therefore to help the education and to ensure the
possibility of farm animal autopsies even if at a low but constant
level, these species are usually investigated free of charge. Large
animals (horses, cattle) are sent for autopsy to the Üllő unit of the
Faculty.
Autopsies yield about 30% of the diagnostic work of the department,
histopathological investigations (samples from autopsies, biopsies,
excised tumours from patients etc.) represent about 60%, and the
remaining 10% are auxiliary examinations (bacterium culturing,
antibiotic resistance tests, electron-microscopic investigations,
polymerase chain reaction to demonstrate viral infections etc).
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