SECTION I: INTRODUCTION- 1. Disease and epizootiology - basic principles- 2. Special problems in working with free-living animals- SECTION II: DISEASE INVESTIGATION- 3. Identifying and defining a disease - 4. Collecting population data - 5 Defining environmental variables- 6. Formulating and testing hypotheses- 7. Samples, sampling and sample collection- 8. Investigation of disease outbreaks and chronic or inapparent disease- 9. Records and record keeping - SECTION III: DISEASE MANAGEMENT- 10. Disease management general principles - 11. Management of the causative agent/factor or its vector - 12. Disease management through manipulation of the host population- 13. Disease management through treatment and immunization - 14. Disease management through environmental modification - 15. Disease management through influencing human activities- 16. Emergency and integrated management programs- 17. Assessing the effectiveness of a disease management program - Common and scientific names of animals - REFERENCES- INDEX
EAN/ISBN : 9783540489788
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Wobeser, Gary A.