Manual On The Diagnosis Of Rinderpest

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Genre : Rinderpest
Author : J. Anderson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Release : 1996
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9251038147


Manual Of Security Sensitive Microbes And Toxins

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Security sensitive microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites) and toxins, which are often referred to as the select agents and toxins, have the capacity to cause serious illness and death in humans, animals, and plants.This book is an authoritative and comprehensive review of security sensitive microbes (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites) and toxins, with an emphasis on the state of the art in the field. Written by experts in the field, the chapters present authoritative reviews, each one covering a single microbe or toxin with respect to its classification, biology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The chapters also discuss the limitations of our current knowledge and challenges relating to improved detection and control of the microbe or toxin.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Dongyou Liu
Publisher : CRC Press
Release : 2014-04-08
File : 874 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781466553989


Rinderpest And Peste Des Petits Ruminants

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Rinderpest and Peste des Petits Ruminants tells the story of how, by the year 2010, scientists are set to globally eradicate one of the great historic plagues that has ravaged human livestock for centuries. Descriptions of the disease in Europe date back to the 4th century and it was regularly re-introduced following wars and other civil unrest until late in the 19th century. It was introduced with devastating effect into Africa towards the end of the 19th century and is now widespread across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Southern Asia. Its causative agent, rinderpest virus, a morbillivirus very closely related to human measles virus, decimates the cattle population along with those of other susceptible domestic ruminants and many wildlife species wherever it is present. - The history of Rinderpest including the history of vaccines and vaccination - Details other Morbillaviruses - Epidemiology and transmission of Rinderpest

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Genre : Nature
Author : William P. Taylor
Publisher : Elsevier
Release : 2005-11-15
File : 390 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780080455891


Mononegaviruses Of Veterinary Importance Volume 1

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Mononegavirales are an order of viruses affecting large, small and marine animals. Discussing the pathology and laboratory diagnosis of important viruses, this book covers those that cause a significant threat to animals in terms of their severity and epidemiological risk, as well as those which are used as models in the study of infectious disease. Also including viruses with zoonotic potential, this book reviews the literature for rinderpest, Rabies and Ebola.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Muhammad Munir
Publisher : CABI
Release : 2013-11-28
File : 379 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781780641799


Molecular Detection Of Animal Viral Pathogens

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Molecular Detection of Animal Viral Pathogens presents expert summaries on state-of-the-art diagnostic approaches for major animal viral pathogens, with a particular emphasis on identification and differentiation at the molecular level. Written by specialists in related research areas, each chapter provides a concise overview of an individual virus

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Genre : Medical
Author : Dongyou Liu
Publisher : CRC Press
Release : 2016-05-25
File : 952 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781498700375


Manual On The Preparation Of Rinderpest Contingency Plans

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This manual provides information on the nature of rinderpest and on the principles and strategic options relating to the control and elimination of rinderpest in the event of its being reintroduced in a country that is free of disease and infection. It provides guidelines for individual countries to formulate their national policy on rinderpest control and eradication.

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Genre : Medical
Author : T. U. Obi
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Release : 1999
File : 56 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015057640180


African Swine Fever Asf Detection And Diagnosis

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Given the current worsening of the African swine fever situation worldwide, this field manual will be aimed to assist veterinarians in the prompt recognition and detection of the disease and the immediate control steps at farm level.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Release : 2018-09-27
File : 92 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789251097526


Manual For The Management Of Operations During An Animal Health Emergency

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The benefit of an adequate framework for the management of animal health emergency operations has been repeatedly shown over the years, highlighting a need to build and upgrade capabilities to effectively and efficiently manage animal health emergency operations at all levels. This need can begin to be met through the guidance provided in this manual. Equipped with practical examples, samples and guidelines, this manual supports countries and relevant local, national, regional and international organizations as they prepare for and manage operations during an animal health emergency. The manual is designed to be used in line with the 'Good Emergency Management Practice: The Essentials' manual, applying Good Emergency Management Practice (GEMP) principles and a One Health approach, and providing a global view of how to act during the peacetime and emergency phases of animal health events. This global manual is presented in such a way that veterinary services and relevel local authorities in countries around the world can use the information therein as guidance to create or adapt their own systems, and build a customized emergency operations management manual.

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : Münstermann, S., Sow, M., Gbaguidi, L.A.M.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Release : 2022-07-05
File : 92 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789251362075


Lumpy Skin Disease Lsd Field Manual

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The Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a viral disease of cattle that has dramatic effects on rural livelihoods, which strongly dependent on cattle. The disease slashes milk production and may lead sterility in bulls and fertility problems in females. It damages hides, and causes death due to secondary bacterial infections. Although traditionally limited to sub-Saharan Africa, LSD has slowly been invading new territories such as the Middle East and Turkey, and since 2015, most of the Balkan countries, the Caucasus and the Russian Federation, where the disease continues to spread and the risk of an imminent incursion into other unaffected countries, is very high. Veterinarians, cattle farmers, and others along the value chain are facing the disease for first time and are unfamiliar with LSD’s clinical presentation, its transmission routes and the available prevention and control options. This manual aims to fill these gaps by providing veterinary professionals and paraprofessionals with the in formation they need to promptly diagnose and react to an outbreak of LSD. Cattle farmers will also benefit from reading it.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Release : 2018-09-27
File : 60 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789251097762


Cattle Plague

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Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from the 18th century, followed by an analysis of some effects, political, economic and social. Then follows attempts at cure from earliest times encompassing superstition and witchcraft, largely Roman methods persisting until the 19th century; the search for a cure through inoculation and the final breakthrough in Africa at the end of the 19th century. The last section covers the disease in Asia and Africa. Appendices cover regulations now in force to control the disease as well as historical instructions, decrees and statutes dating from 1745-1878.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Clive Spinage
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 806 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781441989017