# VetBact

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The **VetBact** database contains information about [bacteria](/source/Bacteria) that are of interest in [veterinary medicine](/source/Veterinary_medicine).[1][2] The database was developed at the [Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences](/source/Swedish_University_of_Agricultural_Sciences) and the [National Veterinary Institute](/source/National_Veterinary_Institute_(Sweden)) in Uppsala, Sweden.

VetBact is primarily intended as a tool for veterinary students and their teachers, but has also proved useful for veterinary practitioners and students attending other academic courses in bacteriology.

## History

The first version of the database appeared in Swedish on the website of the National Veterinary Institute in 2006. The database received a major update and was re-launched as 'VetBakt 1.0' under its own domain name, vetbakt.se, in the following year. In 2010, a bilingual (English/Swedish) version known as 'VetBact 2.0' was released and the domain name was changed to vetbact.org. In 2011, three additional modules (VetBactBlog, VetBactQuiz and VetBactLab) were added to the VetBact website.[citation needed]

## Contents of the database

This database contains information about over 200 species (and subspecies) of bacteria. These species belong to more than 80 genera and represent 9 of the 29 bacterial [phyla](/source/Phylum). The information about each species comprises [etymology](/source/Etymology), [taxonomy](/source/Biological_classification), morphology, metabolism, biochemical reactions, host, disease, [phylogeny](/source/Phylogeny) etc. There are more than 300 images for which non-commercial use is permitted under a [Creative Commons](/source/Creative_Commons_license) BY-NC-ND 2.5 license.[citation needed]

## The modules VetBactBlog, VetBactQuiz and VetBactLab

These course-oriented modules can be found under the heading 'Course material' on VetBact.

- **VetBactBlog** is, as the name suggests, a blog. It offers an [RSS](/source/RSS) feed and provides space for discussions.
- **VetBactQuiz** contains a number of questions for veterinary students. Automatic feed-back is given as soon as an answer has been submitted.
- **VetBactLab** is intended to complement, but not replace, experiments in the laboratory. The purpose of these experiments *in silico*, or virtual experiments, is to teach students how to identify bacteria that cause various diseases in animals.

The VetBact database, and its modules, is based on Free and Open Source Software ([FOSS](/source/FOSS)) and is now an integral part of the curriculum at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.[3]

## References

1. Johansson, Karl-Erik (February 2014). ["VetBact - culturing bacteriological knowledge for veterinarians"](https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/11959/11/johansson_k_e_150324.pdf). *Veterinary Record*. **174** (7): 162–164. [doi:10.1136/vr.g162](https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.g162). [PMID 24526535](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24526535). [S2CID 19176023](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:19176023)

1. Zhulin, Igor B. (1 August 2015). "Databases for Microbiologists". *Journal of Bacteriology*. **197** (15): 2458–2467. [doi:10.1128/JB.00330-15](https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00330-15). [PMC 4505447](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4505447). [PMID 26013493](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26013493)

1. Fredriksson, Mona (2008). ["VetBakt – ett nätbaserat pedagogiskt verktyg för veterinärstudenter"](http://www.vetbact.org/pdf/ped3vetbakt.pdf) (in Swedish). *VetBact*

## External links

- [Official website](http://www.vetbact.org)

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