Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds by Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, Carter T. Atkinson

By Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, Carter T. Atkinson

Free-living birds come upon a number of future health dangers as a result of viruses, micro organism, and fungi, a few which in flip can considerably impression different animal populations and human future health. Newly rising ailments and new zoonotic sorts of older ailments have introduced elevated international cognizance to the overall healthiness of untamed chook populations. reputation and administration of those illnesses is a excessive precedence for all these concerned with natural world.

Infectious illnesses of untamed Birds presents biologists, natural world managers, natural world and veterinary healthiness pros and scholars with the main complete reference on infectious viral, bacterial and fungal illnesses affecting wild birds. Bringing jointly contributions from a world crew of specialists, the booklet bargains the main entire details on those ailments, their background, causative brokers, value and inhabitants impression. targeting greater than simply therapy, particular emphasis is given to affliction procedures, acceptance and epidemiology.

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