Advancements and Technologies in Pig and Poultry Bacterial Disease Control

Advancements and Technologies in Pig and Poultry Bacterial Disease Control provides the most up-to-date knowledge on the tools and technologies used in the economics, prevention, monitoring and control of the most important bacterial diseases in these two important livestock species. Written by international experts in veterinary medicine, veterinary science, agricultural economics and environmental monitoring, this book provides state-of-the-art information regarding the application of technology to the prevention and control of bacterial disease in pigs and poultry. It presents the most up-to-date information on the major bacterial pathogens, why they are important, their epidemiology, pathogenesis and molecular basis of their virulence. Additional sections examine how genomic sequencing addresses the development of disease biomarkers for faster and highly specific diagnosis and how next generation sequencing can identify good and bad microflora. This book will be a valuable resource for veterinarians, epidemiologists, animal scientists, technologists, and researchers studying precision livestock farming. Students in veterinary, animal science and bio-science courses will also find it useful for its coverage of diseases and monitoring tools.

Table of Contents:
1. The economic cost of bacterial infections 2. Bacterial diseases in pigs and poultry: Occurrence, epidemiology and biosecurity measures 3. Bacterial pathogenesis 4. Immunity to bacteria 5. Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial infections 6. Environmental monitoring and prediction of diseases 7. Bacterial diseases in pigs 8. Bacterial diseases in chickens 9. Antimicrobial resistance in the farm environment 10. Monitoring the microbiota in chickens and pigs

About the Author :
Neil Foster is an professor at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, Scotland’s Rural College, Aberdeen, UK. He trained in immunology at the University of Leeds and has studied the immune response to bacterial pathogens and parasites for over 25 years, previously working at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford and The Institute for Animal Health. He has collaborated on several EU projects, has published numerous scientific studies on immunity in animals and humans, and currently researches molecular biomarker development in pigs and poultry at his lab. Ilias Kyriazakis is a professor of animal health and nutrition at Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. He is a veterinarian who specialises in the development of systems that enhance livestock performance whilst maintain their sustainability. He has worked with several species of animals, ranging from mice to cows, but he is better known for his work on the development of systems for pigs and poultry. Dr. Kyriazakis holds several fellowships and honorary positions at universities in Europe and North America, and has collaborated in multinational projects for several years. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of several textbooks and has acted as editor for several prestigious journals in the past. Paul Barrow is a professor of veterinary infectious diseases at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He trained as a medical microbiologist at the University of Bristol and spent 25 years in government research at Houghton Poultry Research Station and the Institute for Animal Health as Head of Zoonoses Research. His main areas of expertise are enteric bacterial infections in poultry and pigs, and he has an international reputation in poultry salmonellosis. He had an honorary chair at the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has extensive collaborative contacts in China and Brazil. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 35 review articles, and 3 books.