Poultry meat which has an economic importance and high nutritional value among animal protein sources has an important role in supplying the food needs. Owing to the nutrients they contain, poultry meats create an environment which is quite suitable for the growth of pathogenic and apathogenic...

Huge livestock population of India is under threat by a large number of endemic infectious (bacterial, viral, and parasitic) diseases. These diseases are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, particularly in exotic and crossbred cattle. Beside morbidity and mortality, economic...

Bovine brucellosis is a zoonotic disease with a high prevalence and unknown economic loses in Colombia. Our aim was to evaluate the brucellosis costs recorded by middle and small livestock farmers from the Sumapaz region, Colombia. This descriptive study was conducted with expense records spent to...

Wildlife is the fauna and flora that are out of the control of man, although over the years common usage, public perceptions and history have practically defined wildlife as undomesticated free ranging terrestrial vertebrates which include reptiles, amphibians, birds, mammals excluding fishes....

Respiratory diseases, including pneumonia, affect the pig's technical performances with a decrease in growth performance and an increase in mortality and contribute to a large proportion of antibiotic use during fattening. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between severity...

High rate of pre-weaning mortality (20% of total born) is an important economic and ethical issue in pig farms. Contribution of stillborn piglets is high (36% of total mortality) but variable. This may be attributed to some inaccurate on-farm evaluations, as precise diagnosis requires necropsy...

The release of fetal membranes postpartum is a physiological process and involves loss of fetomaternal adherence, combined with contraction of uterine musculature and is usually accomplished within 6 hours of calving. Retained placenta is failure of the placenta to be expelled within 6-24 hours...

These proceedings contain 29 abstracts and three articles on veterinary epidemiology and preventive medicine. The research articles focus on the importance of assessing the economic impact of diseases, effective economic assessment of animal health intervention and the economic impact to disease...

Following the recent implementation of the National Program for the Control and Eradication of Brucellosis and Tuberculosis (PNCEBT), and the lack of economic research on animal health in Brazil, we created a model to estimate the economic impact of brucellosis and tuberculosis on livestock...