Ruminants: Anatomy, Behavior and Diseases

$235.00

Ricardo Mendes (Editor)
UNIBAVE Centro Universitário Barriga Verde, Professor of Veterinary Pathology, Orleans, Santa Catarina State, Brazil

Series: Animal Science, Issues and Research
BISAC: SCI070030

This book includes thoroughly revised and reviewed information with content of the most important diseases throughout the world. It presents up-to-date information on diseases effecting ruminants as Fasciolosis, Freemartism and BVD, as well as, present important information about behavior and evolutionary and morphological anatomy. Included also are observations collected during experiments using immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. This book was written by some of the best researchers in each area, from universities located in Spain, Portugal, US, Switzerland, Brazil, Italy and Slovakia. Completely revised chapters reflect the information from current literature. (Imprint: Nova Biomedical )

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Neglected tropical diseases of ruminants
(Carlos Gutierrez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain)

2. Liver and stomach flukes of wild and domestic ruminants: molecular approach in their discrimination
(Eva Bazsalovicsová, Ivica Králová-Hromadová, Katarína Oberhauserová, Marta Špakulová, Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic; The University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Komenského Košice, Slovak Republic)

3. Fascioliosis
(Leandro Buffoni Perazzo, Parasitology Unit, Animal Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain)

4. Evaluating the whole production chain: a need for organic production research
(Marta López-Alonso, Marta Miranda, Isabel Blanco-Penedo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Departamento de Patoloxía Animal, Facultade de Veterinaria, Lugo, Spain; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Departamento de Ciencias Clínicas Veterinarias, Facultade de Veterinaria, Spain; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Uppsala, Sweden)

5. Exanthematic bovine Vaccinia virus outbreaks in dairy cattle in Brazil: an overview of viral isolates and risk factors
(Jônatas Santos Abrahão, Giliane de Souza Trindade and Erna Geessien Kroon, Laboratório de Vírus, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil)

6. Behavior feeding of Ruminants
(Christiano Santos Rocha Pitta, Paulo Fernando Adami and Laércio Ricardo Sartor, Agronomy Departament, Federal Institute of Paraná. Campus Palmas, Paraná – Brazil)

7. Freemartinism in Cattle
(Alexandra Esteves, Renée Båge and Rita Payan-Carreira, ECAV, [Veterinary and Animal Research Centre], Univ. Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal. Div. of Reproduction, Dept. of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)
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8. Fat Depots: A Morphological and Anatomical adaptation to tropical climates
(IICT – Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical. Centro de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Av. Univ. Técnica, Lisboa, Portugal)

9. Bovine viral diarrhea virus: biology, clinical forms and pathogenesis
(María A. Risalde, Pedro J. Sánchez-Cordón, Miriam Pedrera, Verónica Molina, Fernando Romero-Palomo and José C. Gómez-Villamandos,
Department of Comparative Pathology, Veterinary Faculty, University of Córdoba-Agrifood Campus of International Excellence (ceiA3), Edificio Sanidad Animal, Campus de Rabanales, Córdoba, Spain)

10. Adult mucosa stomach of domestic ruminants: structural, histochemical and immunocytochemical study
(Gaetano Scala and Lucianna Maruccio, Department of Biological Structures, Functions and Technologies, University of Napoli Federico II, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Via Veterinaria, Napoli, Italy

11. Fetal mucosa stomach of the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis): morphostructural, microvascular and immunocytochemical study
(Gaetano Scala and Lucianna Maruccio, Department of Biological Structures, Functions and Technologies, University of Napoli, Federico II, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Via Veterinaria, Napoli, Italy)

12. Mandibule shape of ruminants: between phylogeny and feeding habits
(Mennecart Bastien, Becker Damien and Berger Jean-Pierre
Department of Geosciences – Earth Sciences, Pérolles, Fribourg, Switzerland; Section d’archéologie et paléontologie, République et Canton du Jura, Office de la culture, Hôtel des Halles, CH-2900 Porrentruy , Switzerland)

13. Creating the Tiniest Bison: A System Dynamics Model of Ecological Evolution
(Elin Whitney-Smith, Netalyst, Inc.)

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