Emerging and exotic diseases of animals / edited by Anna Rovid Spickler & James A. Roth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spickler, Anna Rovid.

Roth, James A.

Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases in animals.

Domestic animals--Diseases.

Domestic animals.

Veterinary epidemiology.

Veterinary emergencies.

Epidemics.

Animal Diseases--epidemiology.

Animal Diseases--transmission.

Animals, Domestic.

Animals, Wild.

Communicable Diseases.

Medical Subjects:

Animal Diseases--epidemiology.

Animal Diseases--transmission.

Animals, Domestic.

Animals, Wild.

Communicable Diseases.

Physical Description:

xi, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Edition:

Third edition, third printing.

Place of Publication:

Ames, Iowa : Institute for International Cooperation in Animal Biologics, Iowa State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, [2008]

Contents:

Foreign animal diseases and the consequences of their introduction

Routes of transmission and the introduction of foreign animal diseases

Response to a foreign animal disease outbreak, and the agencies involved

Veterinarian's role in an animal health emergency

Descriptions of recent incursions of exotic diseases

Fact Sheets for emerging and exotic diseases of animals

Images of emerging and exotic diseases of animals.

Notes:

Cover title.

"Materials for this book are derived from an Internet-based course entitled Emerging and Exotic Diseases of Animals (EEDA) which was originally developed with funding from the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) Higher Education Challenge Grants program (grant number 00384119278). Faculty from three colleges of veterinary medicine ... worked to design the Internet-based course (Iowa State University ... ; University of California, Davis ... ; and the University of Georgia ...)"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0974552550

9780974552552

OCLC:

243763748