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Product DescriptionMost of the important infectious diseases that threaten livestock--including heartwater, bluetongue, African horse sickness, African swine fever, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, and trypanosomiasis --occur endemically on the Southern African subcontinent and are responsible for major stock lossesannually.Infectious Diseases of Livestock offers a comprehensive overview of the factors which influence the occurrence of such diseases, focusing in particular on arthropod vectors (ticks, tsetse flies,culidoides midges, mosquitoes, and biting flies), herd immunity and immunization strategies,resistance of animal breeds to infectious agents and their vectors, and the role played by wild animals in the spread of infectious diseases. Throughout, diseases are grouped according to their causal infectious agents and are treated in terms of their history, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinicalsigns, pathology, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and control. The book concludes with a discussion of diseases of unknown etiologies and important disease complexes such as mastitis and congenital viral teratology. Well-written and completely up-to-date, this book is the reference thatstudents, professionals, and researchers in infectious diseases, pathology, tropical medicine, and veterinary research have been waiting for.Review`The authors presumably agreed to follow a strict format because the editors have succeeded in achieving a similarity of style and approach throughout which is very important for a reference source of this magnitude to ensure the reader can get used to the way material is presented. The editors are to be congratulated warmly on achieving what must have been a daunting undertaking.' A. Hunter, The Veterinary Record, February 10 1996About the AuthorJ. A. W. Coetzer is a Professo, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science at University of Pretoria. G. R. Thomson is a Doctor, Foot and Mouth Disease Laboratory at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute. R. C. Tustin is a Professor (Emeritus), former Head of the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science at the University of Pretoria.