Disease in Wild Animals : Investigation and Management /
Wildlife diseases have become increasingly important recently due to their effect upon human health, veterinary medicine, wildlife, and conservation biology. Gary Wobeser's successful book from 1994 has been completely updated and enlarged in a new second edition. An in-depth overview of the av...
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Disease and epizootiology–basic principles
- Special problems in working with free-living animals
- Disease investigation
- Identifying and defining a disease
- Collecting population data
- Defining environmental factors
- Formulating and testing hypotheses
- Samples, sampling and sample collection
- Investigation of disease outbreaks and chronic or inapparent disease
- Records and recordkeeping
- Disease management
- Disease management–general principles
- Management of the causative agent/factor or its vector
- Disease management through manipulation of the host population
- Disease management through treatment and immunization
- Disease management through environmental modification
- Disease management through influencing human activities
- Emergency and integrated management programs
- Assessing the effectiveness of a disease-management program.