Infectious Diseases of Livestock With Special Reference to Southern Africa 2 Volume Set

by Coetzer, J. A. W.; Thomson, G. R.; Tustin, R. C.; Kriek, N. P. J.

• ISBN13: 9780195705065
• ISBN10: 0195705068
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-06-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Most of the important infectious diseases that threaten livestock--including heartwater, bluetongue, African horse sickness, African swine fever, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and trypanosomiasis --occur endemically on the Southern African subcontinent and are responsible for major stock losses annually. Infectious Diseases of Livestock offers a comprehensive overview of the factors which influence the occurrence of such diseases, focusing in particular on arthropod vectors (ticks, tsetse flies, culidoides midges, mosquitoes, and biting flies), herd immunity and immunization strategies, resistance of animal breeds to infectious agents and their vectors, and the role played by wild animals in the spread of infectious diseases. Throughout, diseases are grouped according to their causal infectious agents and are treated in terms of their history, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, pathology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and control. The book concludes with a discussion of diseases of unknown etiologies and important disease complexes such as mastitis and congenital viral teratology. Well-written and completely up-to-date, this book is the reference that students, professionals, and researchers in infectious diseases, pathology, tropical medicine, and veterinary research have been waiting for.

Table of Contents

Aspects Influencing the Occurence of Infectious Diseases Vectors: Ticks

Vectors: Tsetse Flies

Vectors: Muscidae

Vectors: Tabanidae

Vectors: Culicoides spp.

Vectors: Mosquitoes

Classification, Epidemiology and Control of Arthropod-Borne Viruses

Vaccines, Herd Immunity and Economics: Considerations in theControl of Infectious Diseases

Genetic Resistance of Livestock to Infectious Diseases and Parasites

The Important Role of Wildlife in the Occurrence of Livestock Diseases in Southern Africa

Protozoal Diseases

African Animal Trypanosomiases

Dourine

Trichomoniases

Amoebic Infections

Coccidiosis

Cryptosporidiosis

Toxoplasmosis

Besnoitiosis

Sarcocystosis

Balantidiasis

Leishmaniasis

Pneumocystosis Babesioses

Bovine Babesiosis

Equine Babesiosis

Porcine Babesiosis Theilerioses

East Coast Fever

Corridor Disease

Zimbabwe Theileriosis 20. Turning Sickness

Theileria Taurotragi Infection

Theileria Mutans Infection

Theileria Velifera Infection

Theileria Separata Infectiion

Theileria Annulata Theileriosis

Rickettsial and Chlamydial Diseases

Heartwater

Lesser-known Rickettsias Infecting Livestock

Chlamydiosis

Q Fever

Eperythrozoonosis

Bovine Haemobartonellosis Anaplasmoses

Bovine Anaplasmosis

Ovine and Caprine Anaplasmosis

Viral Diseases Reoviridae

Bluetongue

African Horsesickness

Equine Encephalosis

Palyam Serogroup Orbivirus Infections

Rotavirus Infections Rhabdoviridae

Rabies

Ephemeral Fever

Vesicular Stomatitis an dOther Vesiculovirus Infections African Swine Fever Virus

African Swine Fever Poxviridae

Lumpy Skin Disease

Sheep-pox and Goatpox

Orf

Ulcerative Dermatosis

Bovine Papular Stomatitis

Pseudocowpox

Swinepox

Cowpox

Horsepox

Camelpox

Buffalopox Togaviridae and Flaviviridae

Equine Encephalitides Caused by Alphaviruses

Bovine Virus Diarrhoea and Mucosal Disease

Border Disease

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