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Disease Incidence - Prevalence Data for UK Breeding Herds: 2010
[Respiratory Disease in Growers & Weaners, Lameness in Piglets, Weaners, Sows, Skin Diseases, Nervous System Diseases, Ruptures, Vices]
Radioactivity Levels in European Union Boars 
Just Published 2010!
Simple Practical Tips for stockpersons on how to detect, diagnose and deal with sick pigs - the Animal Health Authorities to register with, and notify, in case of suspected epidemic disease. Includes the latest [2010] information on U.K. and EU laws and regulations for controlling the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease and swine fever. Also some personal stories of pig-care "disaster management"!
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Healthy Tissue Appearance and Inflation Test on Normal Pig Lung
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Management of ill or injured pigs requires suitable facilities, nutrition, good nursing, veterinary treatment.
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ISBN: 1861267878
Pig Ailments: Recognition and TreatmentThis clearly written, non-technical book is essential reading for all those who own, or care for pigs. It covers all the principal diseases and abnormalities that occur in pigs. Written by an experienced veterinary surgeon and acknowledged specialist in pig medicine Covers all the principal diseases of breeding animals, both male and female Examines all major pig ailments and considers their clinical signs and diagnosis as well as their treatment, prevention and control Discusses those aspects of pig management that have an impact on the incidence of disease and which lead to a reduction in the productivity of the breeding herd.
About the Author: Mark White is a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, with whom he is registered as a 'Specialist in Pig Medicine'. In 1993 he was the youngest veterinary surgeon to acquire the Royal College's Diploma in Pig Medicine. Mark is a specialist in pig diseases, a consultant veterinary advisor on swine management and health and writes extensively for professional veterinary journals.
INCLUDES:
- diseases of reproduction
- parturition
- the perinatal and neonatal periods
- lactation and post farrowing problems
- reproductive breeding problems of the boar
- enteric, respiratory, nervous, locomotor, skin and exotic diseases
- swellings, lameness, traumatic injuries
- septicaemia, sudden death, urinary system conditions
- health problems of outdoor pigs.
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ISBN: 9086860605 978-9086860609 Gut Efficiency - The Key Ingredient in Pig & Poultry Production
Effect on Immune Function - Disease - Role of Fibre - Gut MicrofloraAn edited collection of current reviews by world-leading authorities in swine and poultry nutrition and production. The basic theme is the interaction between nutrition and the gut ecology as a means to enhance health, performance and profitability. The development of the porcine gut and intestinal ecosystem and their impact on health and disease are covered in-depth. There are also summaries of the roles of specific feed ingredients.
Includes
- How past experience can dictate future developments in the pork industry
- Effects of technology on the efficiency of the pork industry
- Factors affecting productivity
- Host & intestinal microbiota negotiations in relation to growth efficiency
- Gut microflora: competitive with host in small intestine, symbiotic in large intestine
- Gut bacteria & intestinal inflammation
- Bacteria alter intestinal epithelial turnover & maintenance energy requirements
- Gut development: interactions between nutrition, gut health & immunity in young pigs
- Defence mechanisms of the gastrointestinal tract
- Neonatal immune function, Adaptive immune function, Innate immune function
- Weaning & the mucosal immune system
- Pig health & the modern genotype: implications for performance & profitability
- Disease patterns
- Role of fibre (fiber) in piglet gut health
- Actions of fiber in porcine stomach, small intestine, large bowel
- Fibre & gut health considerations
- Intestinal balance & equilibrium set the scene for health & management
- Managing disease resistance: understanding gastrointestinal microbial populations
- Introduction to the intestinal microbiota of pigs; Commensal bacteria
- Necrotic enteritis, Coccidiosis control
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ATLAS OF PIG DISEASES - FULL-COLOUR PICTURES
"Porcine Meat Inspection" : Post-mortem Examination Disease Images in Color"4th in the highly acclaimed series of Meat Inspection Handbooks (U.K. Canada USA).
Illustrated and indexed textbook of inspecting pork carcases for disease conditions such as pericarditis, pneumomonia etc. The full colour photographs make this Meat Inspectors' manual into a "recognise disease conditions" atlas that is easy to use for untrained people e.g. wild boar hunters and home-butchered meat enthusiasts, as well as professional meat inspectors in commercial abattoirs providing a public health & food safety service to prevent foodborne disease. Basic instructions in porcine anatomy, disease and food-safety-related matters is included. The book is useful for wild or home-killed meat consumers and vetarinarians doing autopsy investigations. This pocket book is also useful for hog-breeders and rearers who want to interpret abbatoir condemnation data or simply get an idea what a sow, boar or grower may have died of.
Dr. A. Grist is a University Lecturer and author of "Bovine Meat Inspection" (UK Canada USA), "Ovine Meat Inspection" (UK Canada USA) and "Poultry Meat Inspection" (UK Canada USA).
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Papular dermatitis (PD) is a term for a rash of small raised red spots occasionally detected in live pigs, but these skin lesions are most often noticed when pig carcases are inspected at the abattoir - they become more obvious after going through the scalding tank. Often they are caused by a hypersensitivity reaction (similar to an allergy) to Sarcoptic mange mites (Sarcoptes scabei).
- Pigs and Poultry GUIDE -
Boost Performance & Health Status & Reduce DiseaseAnswers to current management questions regarding interconnection of nutrition and health, including feeding/pathogen interactions plus practical advice about controlling Salmonellae and mycotoxicosis. The importance of digestive function and the influence of nutrition on liveability and disease are covered in-depth.
The aim is to provide up-to-date coverage of connections between dietary and disease risk assessments and risk management for nutritionists, vets, pork & chicken/egg farmers, agriculture students, lecturers and veterinary research workers.Amazon Ordering links:
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Testing Pig Lungs for Pathological Disease Abnormalities via Inflation
WARNING: PROTECTIVE GLOVES SHOULD BE WORN & LUNGS ONLY EVER INFLATED via a PUMP
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Guide To Antimicrobial Use In Animals
Editors: Guardabassi, Jensen and Kruse
Covers companion animals, food animals & fish farming
The first book to offer practical guidelines on prudent, rational indications and economic and safe applications of antimicrobial medicines and growth promoters (digestive efficiency enhancers) in animals with emphasis on preserving the efficacy of antimicrobial drugs that are clinically important in human medicine. Drawing on multidisciplinary expertise to offer independent scientific advice on a controversial area that is crucial to both human health and animal welfare. General chapters cover issues such as human health risks and the problems of resistance to antibiotic drugs. Specific chapters are dedicated to particular groups of livestock. Suitable for veterinary practitioners working in small or large animal medicine, aquaculture and animal production as well as vet students, veterinary research workers and people working in veterinary public health and resistance to medicinal products in European, USA & International situations.
Contents: Principles of Prudent & Rational Antibiotic Use in Domestic Livestock Human Health Risks Associated with Antimicrobial medications in Animals Antimicrobial Resistance Risk Assessment Clinical Importance of Antimicrobial Drugs in Human Medicine Geographical Differences in Market Availability, Regulation & Use of Antimicrobial Products: Strategies to Minimize the Impact of Antimicrobial Treatment on Selection of Resistant Bacteria Guidelines for Antimicrobials Usage in Swine Guidelines for Antimicrobials in Poultry Guidelines: Antimicrobial Treatment in Ruminants Guidelines: Antimicrobial Medication in Horses Guidelines: Antimicrobial Treatment in Dogs & Cats Guidance: Antimicrobial Use in Aquaculture
by Peter G.G. Jackson & Peter Cockcroft
Cambridge University UK Veterinary School
"Handbook of Pig Medicine" provides the knowledge needed to recognize, diagnose, treat and control pig diseases in practice. This useful manual and reference book deals with medical, surgical and breeding problems in pigs, haematology, and includes high quality photographs and diagrams to complement written descriptions of clinical signs, symptoms and production effects.
Clinical examination of the individual pig and the investigation of herd problems are covered in detail, along with a study on pig population medicine. Each body system is considered with special attention to clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, chapters in the book discuss obstetrics, pig haematology and biochemistry as well as differential diagnosis.
Other topics covered include organic and outdoor pigs; problems of the pet pig, sampling, euthanasia and post-mortem examination. This practical textbook is of interest to veterinary students and practitioners and gives them the confidence to carry out an effective clinical examination and gain the comprehensive and required knowledge of pig diseases.
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Production Diseases in Farm Animals
Includes CD of Proceedings of International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals
Infection and infectious diseases associated with livestock production Effects of dietary ß-glucans on nonspecific & specific immunity in weaners Effect of dietary ß-glucans on oxidative & antioxidative status & growth performance Influence of organic nutrition & housing on immune system & metabolism of finishing pigs Cow's colostrum feed additive in weaning diet improves gut health of piglets Postweaning Multisystemic Wasting Syndrome (PMWS) in growing swine Alternatives to growth-promoting antibiotics & antibiotic feed additives Immune system activation increases tryptophan requirement of post-weaning pigs High producing farm animals are permanently challenged by a variety of factors: lack of proper nutrition (deficit/surplus), housing systems, infections and stress. The incidence, course and outcome of production diseases are changing continuously. Therefore, new information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of production diseases is needed.
These problems are complicated by the discussion of animal welfare, the rapid changes in agricultural production and the economics of production. The following key topics are handled: alternatives to growth-promoting antibiotics; chronic inflammation and animal production; animal behaviour and welfare in intensive production systems; epidemiology of production diseases; new techniques in immunoprophylaxis; nutrition-immunology and production-immunology relationships; phosphorus nutrition - animal health and environmental concerns; application of genomics to production disease; role of specific fatty acids in animal health, reproduction, and performance; trace mineral nutrition and metabolism
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Diseases of Swine
Editors: Barbara E. Straw, Jeffrey Zimmerman, Sylvie D'Allaire, David J. Taylor
Hardcover 1153 pages
Comprehensive manual including pneumonic pasteurellosis, spirochetal diarrhea, streptococcal infections, leptospirosis, porcine stress syndrome, prolapses, hematology etc
Includes Avian TB organism Mycobacterium avium which can cause condemnation of pig heads due to lymph node lesions, as well as Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Manual of Natural Veterinary Medicine - Science & Tradition
An Holistic & Integrative Approach to Health & Disease
Written by 2 Vets who are also trained in Herbalism and AcupunctureQuick-reference, practical guide to dietary, herbal and acupuncture remedies for common disease states. Heavily based on traditional Chinese medicine approaches to diagnosis and therapeutic rational. Introduces basic concepts of Chinese medical understanding with a body-systems approach containing discussions of natural therapies for common disorders presented against a background of conventional western scientific medical understanding. Focussed mainly on small animals but covering many disease states that also occur in farm animals.
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Trends in Emerging Viral Infections of Swine
61 Review papers on economically significant viruses that affect pigs. Viral infections of swine, symptoms and mode of transmission. The role of international agencies in epidemic virus disease control and the social impact of disease control and eradication programs.
Veterinary issues and aspects range from the molecular to the epidemiological levels. Includes swine influenza viruses, porcine paramyxoviruses, classical swine fever, African swine fever, foot and mouth disease, porcine herpesviruses, arboviral infections such Japanese Encephalitis (JE virus) plus emerging viral pathogens such as Nipah virus, Menangle virus, and porcine circovirus.
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"The Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease"
Classic textbook by Cedric A. Mims Revised 5th edition ISBN 0124982654
Contents:
- Entry of Microorganisms into the body
- Events occurring after entry of the micro-organism
- Encounter of microbe with phagocytic cell
- Spread of microbes through the body
- Immune repsonse to infection
- Microbial strategies in relation to the immune response
- Mechanisms of cell and tissue damage
- Recovery from infection
- Failure to eliminate microbe
- Host and Genetic factors influencing susceptibility
- Vaccines - principles, complications and side-effects
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Principles of Virology: This textbook focuses on specific topics rather than individual viruses. It teaches unifying concepts, addresses problems common to the propagation of every virus; defines the finite number of genome structures and expression strategies and illuminates the principles of host defense and virus offense. It also provides insight into the origins of viral disease and introduces the challenges inherent in developing treatments and introduces principles governing evolving and emerging viral infections.
Molecular Biology, Pathogenesis, and Control of Animal Viruses
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Herd Health - Food Animal Production Medicine
by Otto M. Radostits
Paperback 890 pages published September 2001)
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This textbook offers integrated coverage of all aspects of herd animals - dairy and beef cattle, calves, sheep, and swine. It provides strategies for herd health management, gives veterinary students the basic knowledge and framework for production-oriented animal health management and also gives veterinary practitioners information to provide animal health management services to every segment of the livestock industry.
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Large Animal Internal Medicine 2001
Note: this book does not cover pigs
Latest Edition of classic textbook by Bradford P. Smith DVM Dipl ACVIM
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The new, third edition of the "gold standard" in the field has been completely revised and updated, reflecting large animal internal medicine as it is practiced today. In a single, comprehensive volume, it covers virtually everything the busy practitioner needs to know on the subject.
Using a problem-oriented approach to the diagnosis of diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, and goats, it teaches readers how to diagnose based on what they observe and what the laboratory and diagnostic tests reveal. Complete lists of common, less common, and uncommon diseases associated with particular signs or symptoms are given in easy-to-find boxes, and the clinician is given an approach to each manifestation of disease and a method to work toward a diagnosis. Readers will also find guidance on treating problems symptomatically, a method that is commonly used in everyday practice. In addition, interpretation of abnormalities is made easier with complete lists of diseases associated with a given laboratory abnormality provided in handy boxes. Provides current data and contains more than 450 illustrations. The neonatal section has a new author, with other chapters revised. The chapter on vaccinations has been rewritten.
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Farm Animal Diseases
**Latest Edition**
of the classic textbook
"Veterinary Medicine"
Includes both common and exotic pig diseases. There is a useful comparative guide to porcine cutaneous diseases such as exudative epidermitis (greasy pig disease), swine pox, Pityriasis rosea, skin necrosis, dermatosis vegetans, parakeratosis (zinc deficiency), ringworm, facial dermatitis of suckling piglets, ulcerative granuloma, sarcoptic mange, allergic dermatoses and of course swine erysipelas - often mis-spelled as erisypelas or erisipelas!
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Pig Diseases
by Prof. D. J. David Taylor, Glasgow University Veterinary School. A popular handbook, used all over the world by swine farmers and vets. Excellent value, at very low cost, reference book. Amazingly comprehensive concise guide to porcine bacterial, managemental, viral & other diseases. Includes circovirus, PRRS, PMWS, PDNS, Chlamydia suis (pink eye), muscle tremors, Trichinella spiralis & sow mastitis.
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An Outline of Swine Diseases: Handbook
by Dr. Ross Cowart DVM and Prof. Stan Casteel DVM PhD
**Second Edition**
of this popular & low-cost reference manual
This new edition includes chapters on the veterinarian's role in swine production, discussion of swine health management techniques as well as a section on diseases organised by systems affected. Updated chapters cover again the causes, epidemiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of swine diseases. Also there is a new chapter on diseases caused by toxic agents.
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Rabies, Lyme Disease, Hantavirus
& other animal-borne human diseases in the USA & Canada
Zoonoses Manualby Dr. Lendell Cockrum
Paperback 176 pages Approx price: US$15 UK£12 currency conversion calculator
What every parent, householder, camper, hiker, fisherman and hunter needs to know.
Dr. Cockrum explains how bats, deer, rodents and rabbits infect humans with infectious and parasitic diseases. Encephalitis (5 kinds), Lyme disease, Hanta Virus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Chagas' disease, tularemia, rabies, 5 kinds of plague, rickettsetial pox, typhus, valley fever and other diseases are fully described. This is vital information for the both the concerned layperson and health professionals.
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The Merck Veterinary Manual Editor: Susan E. Aiello
The Merck Veterinary Manual provides a LOW-COST concise and reliable source of information that keeps pace with the rapidly advancing field of veterinary medicine. Veterinarians, other animal health care professionals, or anyone concerned with the health and well-being of animals will find this a valuable reference for diagnosis and treatment, as well as for prevention and control of disease in animals. Known as the "Vet's Bible" - huge compendium of concise information in a quick-reference format. Comprehensive manual of the diseases and management of all common domestic species of animal world-wide. 2305 pages, 8th edition
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The Merck Veterinary Manual 2000 CD-ROM (Windows/Mac) US$75.00 now available from USA
Emerging Infections
Editors: Richard M. Krause, A. S. Fauci, John Gallin
Hardcover 528 pages Approx price: US$85 UK£53
Content list & Reviews
Multi-Site Pig Production
- by Dr. Hank Harris
- Microbiology & Veterinary Diagnostic & Production Animal Medicine
- Iowa State University, USA Contents list & Review
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