Bluetongue - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0080975593 ISBN 13: 9780080975597

Publisher: Academic Press, 2014

Synopsis

The third volume in the Institute of Animal Health (IAH) Biology of Animal Infections Series, Bluetongue discusses one of the most economically important diseases of domesticated livestock. Affecting primarily sheep particularly the improved mutton and wool breeds, it is now endemic in Africa, India, the Middle and Far East, Australia and the Americas, and over the last six years has caused a series of outbreaks throughout the Mediterranean region and central Europe. Bluetongue represent a paradigm not only for the other orbiviruses (such as African horse sickness virus, which shares the same vector species) but also for other insect transmitted diseases, including those of humans.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Peter Mertens, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, UK; Matthew Baylis, Veterinary Clinical Science, Leahurst, Neston, UK; and Philip Mellor, Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright Laboratory, Department of Arbovirology, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0080975593
• ISBN 13: 9780080975597
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 506
• Editor: Mellor Peter