ISBN:
9781455757503
Copyright:
2008
Publication Date:
09-20-2007
Page Count:
512
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$161.99
Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 6th Edition
by Murray E. Fowler, DVM, DACZM, DACVIM, DABVT and R. Eric Miller, DVM, DACZM, DECZM (Hon. - ZHM)
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9781455757503
Copyright:
2008
Publication Date:
09-20-2007
Page Count:
512
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$161.99
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Fowler's Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine Current Therapy, Volume 7 - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
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ISBN: 9781455758104
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- Includes practical guidance on such topics as behavioral training for medical procedures and the use of infrared thermography.
- Divided into four sections -- Conditions Affecting Multiple Species, Poikilotherms, Avian Medicine, and Mammals -- to help you find the information you need quickly.
- Extensive contributor list includes multinational contributors offering expert information on species from around the world.
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- Presents timely topics in zoo and wild animal medicine with 57 new chapters to provide the best and most current information available.
- The most up-to-date information on hot topics such as avian influenza, West Nile virus, and other pathogens threatening wildlife and human populations on a global scale.
- Cutting-edge insights on environmental and public health concerns, such as occupational exposure to zoonotic simian retroviruses and use of wildlife rehabilitation centers as monitors for ecosystem health.
- A color plate section presents vivid depictions of external clinical signs for more accurate clinical recognition.
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Section I: Conditions Affecting Multiple Species
1. West Nile Virus in Birds and Mammals
2. Current Diagnostic Methods for Tuberculosis in Zoo Animals
3. Use of Infrared Thermography in Zoo and Wild Animals
4. Behavioral Clues to the Detection of Illness in Wild Animals: Models in Camelids and Elephants
5. Ionophores: Salinomycin Toxicity in Camelids
6. Emerging Diseases at the Interface of People, Domestic Animals and Wildlife
7. Behavioral Training for Medical Procedures
8. The "Balai" Directive of the European Union: A Difficult Piece of Veterinary Legislation
9. Encephalomyocarditis Virus Infection in Zoo Animals
10. Avian Influenza
Conservation Medicine
11. Disease Management in Ex-Situ Invertebrate Conservation Programs
12. Use of Wildlife Rehabilitation Centers as Monitors of Ecosystem Health
13. Biopsy Darting
Section II: Poikilotherms
Fish
14. Selected Fish Diseases in Wild Populations
15. Spring Viremia of Carp Virus (SVCV)
Amphibians
16. Veterinary Participation in the Puerto Rican Crested Toad Program
17. Amphibian Chytridiomycosis
18. Raising Giant Tortoises
Reptiles
19. Reptile Protozoa
20. Fluid Therapy in Reptiles
Section III: Avian Medicine
21. Salmonellosis in Songbirds (Order Passeriformes)
22. Veterinary Care of Bustards
23. Medical Management of Curassows
24. Monitoring Avian Health in the Galápagos Islands: Current Knowledge
25. Avian Atherosclerosis
26. Minerals and Stork Nutritions
27. The Veterinary Care of Kiwi
Section IV: Mammals
Chiroptera
28. Paramyxoviruses in Bats
Rodents
29. Medical Aspects of Red Squirrel Translocation
Primates
30. Neuroleptics in Great Apes with Specific Reference to the Modification of Aggressive Behavior in a Male Gorilla
31. Occupational Exposure to Zoonotic Simian Retroviruses
Carnivores
32. Neurological Disorders in Cheetahs and Snowleopards
33. Imbalanced Diets Compromise Semen Quality in Felids
34. Baylisascaris Neural Larval Migrans in Zoo Animals
35. Use of Analgesics in Exotic Felids
36. Mycobacterial Diseases in Carnivores
Marine mammals
37. Melioidosis in Marine Mammals
38. Inflammation in Marine Mammals
39. Capture and Anesthesia of Otariids in the Wild
40. Tissue Cyst-Forming Coccidia of Marine Mammals
41. Algal Bloom Toxicity in Marine Animals
Elephants
42. Elephant Herpesviruses
43. Tuberculosis in Elephants
44. Neonatal Elephant Mortality
45. Working Elephant Health Care and Management
Artiodactylids
46. Camelinds are Not Ruminants
47. Uroliths and Gastro-Enteroliths
48. Congenital/Hereditary Defects in Camelidae
49. Hypocalcemia, Hypomagnesemia in Non-Domestic Ruminants
50. Diseases of Chamois
51. Gastro-Intestinal Nematodiasis in Hoofstock
52. Tuberculosis in Michigan Deer
53. Chronic Wasting Disease of Cervid Species
54. Heartwater (Ehrlichia Ruminantium)
55. The Nutrition of “Browsers”
56. Side Effects of Etorphine and Carfentanil in Non-Domestic Hoofstock
57. Treatment of Chronic Renal Failure in Non-Domestic Felids
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