Animal Hygiene and Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Safeguarding animal health care considerations should take into account not only the veterinary-technical and zootechnical issues, but also the microbiological and epidemiological disease aspects, managerial and economic relevance, and furthermore product and production process quality assurance related features. This book focuses on the epidemiology of domestic and wild animals, costs of epidemic and endemic diseases of animals, the latest methods in veterinary epidemiology, disease control or suppression by public veterinary services, relationships between veterinary medicine and animal production, and development of new techniques in diagnosing, recording, evaluating and controlling diseases in animal populations.