Infectious Diseases of Livestock, Vol 1 - 2 - With Special Reference to Southern Africa (Hardcover, Standard Ed)

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.