Avian Disease Manual
Description:... "The Avian Disease Manual is the best selling publication of the AAAP. Over the years we have been able to deliver at a reasonable cost, concise yet complete information on commonly encountered diseases affecting poultry. Not surprisingly, it has become an educational staple to North American veterinary and poultry science students, to those interested in avian diseases, but also a most useful reference in numerous countries. Because our target audience is the students, the editorial committee felt that some information in this book was missing in order to the newcomer to better understand the world of poultry medicine. Commercial poultry production is rapidly evolving, not only new pathogens regularly emerge, but given the trend to reduce and eliminate the use of antibiotics, 'old' diseases are resurfacing. Furthermore, recent access to relatively cheap and rapid genome sequencing techniques is changing the face of pathology. Determination of genetic relatedness among bacteria has clarified pathogen classification while bringing new taxonomy. Furthermore, sequencing of the complete genomes of several pathogens, and comparative genomic analyses of commensal and virulent strains have facilitated the identification of a number of virulence-associated genes and is helping scientists to further understand pathogenesis and to develop new preventive tools, hence the need for re-edition of this manual."--taken from Preface to the Eight Edition, page [iii].
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