Background: Disease prioritization aims to enhance resource use efficiency concerning human and animal health systems' preparedness and response to the most important problems for the optimization of beneficial outcomes. In sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), several prioritizations of zoonoses and...

Since the middle of the 20th century, pets are more frequently considered as "family members" within households. However, cats and dogs still can be a source of human infection by various zoonotic pathogens. Among emerging or re-emerging zoonoses, viral diseases, such as rabies (mainly from dog pet ...

The possession of exotic animals as pets is a social practice that has become more visible in Mexico in recent years, so it is interesting to understand its environmental and social implications and those related to human health. The present study aims to identify the main species of exotic animals ...

Wild animals and pests are important reservoirs and vectors of pathogenic agents that can affect domestic pigs. Rapid globalization, anthropogenic factors, and increasing trends toward outdoor pig production facilitate the contact between domestic pigs and wildlife. However, knowledge on the...

This 2-volume text offers a broad overview of infectious diseases in a well-written, user-friendly fashion, covering pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, treatment and prevention. It includes 330 chapters organized into 4 parts. The first volume includes Parts I and II, while the...

With the purpose of identifying the causes of disease and death in backyard turkeys, 768 interviews with growers were carried out in communities of the coastal region of Oaxaca, Mexico. Later, a clinical sanitary evaluation was performed on five randomly selected turkeys of different age and sex....

The aetiology, epidemiology, prevalence, pathology, clinical signs and differential diagnosis of vesicular disease, enzootic bovine leukosis, lumpy skin disease, salmonellosis, bluetongue, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, cysticercosis, polyarthritis, equine anaemia, piroplasmosis,...

Birds are the most popular pet animals kept by humans in many areas of the world. Budgerigars, Canaries, Lovebirds, and Cockatiels are the most common pet birds. Zoonotic diseases are one of the most critical concerns related to pet birds worldwide. The people at the most risk of zoonoses are...

This issue contains 21 papers on the measurement and sampling error in mixed-methods research for the control of peste des petits ruminants in the Karamoja subregion of Northeastern Uganda; factors influencing the performance of voluntary farmer disease reporting in passive surveillance systems;...