Outbreaks of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and food borne microbial infections, dioxin contaminated animal products, the presence of veterinary drug residues, microbial resistance to antibiotics, mycotoxins, agricultural and industrial chemicals, etc. are serious concerns for the food...

The most important viral, bacterial, mycotic and parasitic diseases of laying hens accompanied by direct impairments of egg productiveness and egg quality under the inclusion of the different housing system are listed and described. Especially bacterial and parasitic diseases of the laying hens...

Expulsion of a dead foetus prior to the normal full gestation period is called abortion. Many fertilised ova, embryos or early feotuses may be aborted without being seen. This is especially true in beef cattle, sheep and other animals not closely observed. In the cow, abortions occurring before the ...

Poisoning livestock by mycotoxins happens when feeding them with forage contaminated by different fungi secreting aflatoxins, ochratoxins, T-2 toxin, zearalenone and deoxynivalenol. Many symptoms of such poisoning can be hard to diagnose. Often it leads to metabolic disorders and organism...

The agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) is a New World wild rodent hunted for its meat in Trinidad and other Latin American countries. Studies on agouti under captive conditions have yielded some data on health-related aspects, but relatively very little is known about their wild counterparts. The...

Molds and mycotoxins are contaminants of animal feed causing spoilage and clinical intoxication. Animal exposure to mycotoxins reflects diet composition with major differences occurring between animals kept predominantly of pastures, i.e. ruminants and horses, and those consuming formulated feed...

This chapter focuses on diseases transmitted from cats to humans. The diseases transmitted by inhalation (bordetellosis, plague and Q fever), vectors (ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, flea-borne spotted fever, murine typhus and leishmaniasis), faecal-oral...

Raising ornamental birds has grown in importance in the last years since the number of breeders in the world and in Cuba has increased. However, these birds can be affected with some diseases that can also be transmitted to chickens and by wild birds, man and to other countries by migratory birds....

This paper reviews the different zoonotic diseases from captive wild animals. The clinical features, diagnosis and animal hosts of the following diseases are presented: toxocariasis; strongyloidosis; hymenolepsis; hydatidosis; otodectic mange and cheyletiellosis; flea infestation; scabies;...