Tropical veterinary diseases : control and prevention in the context of the new world order /

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Imprint:New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 2000.
Description:xv, 698 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 0077-8923 ; v. 916
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4385881
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Other authors / contributors:House, James A.
Kocan, Katherine M.
Gibbs, E. P. J. (E. Paul J.)
ISBN:1573312819 (cloth : alk. paper)
1573312827 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Brief History of the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine
  • The Role of the OIE in International Trade
  • What and How Do We Communicate?
  • Part I.. Symposium Papers
  • World Trade, Disease and Florida's Animal Populations: The Changing Dynamics
  • Protecting Health, Facilitating Trade, or Both?
  • International Trade: Multinational Aspects
  • The Impact of Diseases on the Importation of Animals and Animal Products
  • A Perspective on Animal Protein Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • OIE List A Disease as a Constraint to International Trade
  • The Increasing Significance of International Trade in Equids and Its Influence on the Spread of Infectious Diseases
  • Emerging Diseases of Africa and the Middle East
  • Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia: A Reassessment of the Efficacy of Vaccines Used in Africa
  • American Canine Hepatozoonosis: An Emerging Disease in the New World
  • Neosporosis: Aspects of Epidemiology and Host Immune Response
  • Cryptosporidiosis: A Global Challenge
  • A Swedish/European View of Bioterrorism
  • Response to Bio-terrorism Directed against Animals
  • Mitigation of Bioterrorist Threats in the 21st Century
  • The Role of Diagnostic Laboratories in Disease Control
  • The Role of the World Reference Laboratories for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and for Rinderpest
  • Development, Testing and Commercialization of a New Brucellosis Vaccine for Cattle
  • Culture-Derived Parasites in Vaccination of Cattle against Tick-Borne Diseases
  • Biocontrol of Ticks
  • Eradication and Surveillance of the Tropical Bont Tick in the Caribbea: An International Approach
  • Screwworm Eradication in the Americas
  • International Approach to Eradication and Surveillance for Foot-and-Mouth Disease in the Americas
  • Animal Trypanosomiasis in South America: Current Status, Partnership, and Information Technology
  • An International Approach to Laboratory Diagnosis of Animal Diseases
  • Part II.. General Session Papers
  • Assessing Infestation Risk by Vectors: Spatial and Temporal Distribution of African Ticks at the Scale of a Landscape
  • An in Vivo Model to Investigate Lymphocyte-Mediated Immunity During Acute Hemoparasitic Infections: Use of a Monoclonal Antibody to Selectively Deplete CD4[superscript +] T Lymphocytes from Thymectomized Calves
  • Challenges of Non-Tsetse Transmitted Animal Trypanosomoses (NTTAT): An Outline and Some Perspectives
  • Rapid Recovery and Identification of Anthrax Bacteria from the Environment
  • Future Perspectives on Veterinary Hemoparasite Research in the Tropics at the Start of this Century
  • Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Indigenous Pharmacopoeia of Passore Province in Burkina Faso
  • The Epidemiology of Theileria parva Infections on Smallholder Dairy Farms in Kenya
  • Phylogenetic Analysis by rRNA Comparison of the Highly Pathogenic Sheep-Infecting Parasites Theileria lestoquardi and a Theileria Species Identified in China
  • Lymphocyte Stimulatory Capacity of Theileria annulata-Infected Ovine Lymphoblastoid Cells
  • Humoral Immune Response of Dogs Immunized with Salivary Gland, Midgut, or Repeated Infestations with Rhipicephalus sanguineus
  • Ticks Associated with Wild Animals in the Nhecolandia Pantanal, Brazil
  • Thermal Constant Estimation in Tropical Horse Tick, Anocentor nitens (Acari:Ixodidae)
  • Laboratory Evaluation of Pathogenicity of Entomogenous Nematodes to African Tick Species
  • Larval Survival of Anocentor nitens Under Simulated Natural Conditions
  • Artificial Feeding in Boophilus microplus (Acari:Ixodidae) through Micropipettes
  • Tropical Bont Tick (Amblyomma variegatum) Eradication in the Caribbean: The St. Kitts Experience
  • The Eradication of Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia from South Western Africa: A Plan for Action
  • At the End of the Day: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Eradicating Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia from Botswana
  • Mammalian Reservoirs and Epidemiology of Rabies Diagnosed in Human Beings in the United States, 1981-1998
  • Emergence of Nipah Virus in Malaysia
  • Evaluation of a New Sandwich ELISA Kit That Uses Serum for Detection of Cattle Persistently Infected with BVD Virus
  • Comparison between c-ELISA and CFT in Detecting Antibodies to Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides Biotype SC in Cattle Affected by CBPP in Botswana
  • Conservation Medicine
  • Detection of Mucosally Delivered Antibody to Cryptosporidium parvum p23 in Infected Calves
  • A Study on the Time of Ovicidal Effect of Some Anthelmintics in Djallonke Sheep and Its Implication for the Control of Parasitic Helminth Infections
  • Standardization of the Diagnostic Criteria for Canine Ehrlichiosis: Towards A Universal Case Definition
  • Ten Years of Research Activities on Tropical Parasitology of Dromedaries, Cattle, and Small Ruminants in Mauritania
  • Development of a Molecular Probe to Baboon Interleukin-10 mRNA for in Situ Hybridization during Experimental Schistosomiasis
  • Part III.. Minisymposium on Vesticular Stomatitis
  • Longitudinal Studies in the Epidemiology of Vesicular Stomatitis on Costa Rican Dairy Farms
  • VSV-NJ on Ossabaw Island, Georgia: The Truth Is Out There
  • Laboratory Vector Competence of Black Flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) for the Indiana Serotype of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus
  • Pharmacological Factors in the Saliva of Blood-Feeding Insects: Implications for Vesicular Stomatitis Epidemiology
  • Survey of Small Rodents and Hematophagous Flies in Three Sentinel Farms in a Costa Rican Vesicular Stomatitis Endemic Region
  • Part IV.. Minisymposium on Vaccines and Diagnostics for Tick-borne Diseases of Cattle
  • Vaccines against Theileria parva
  • Anaplasmosis Control and Diagnosis in South Africa
  • Vaccination against Tropical Theileriosis
  • Anaplasmosis Control: Past, Present, and Future
  • Babesiosis (Babesia bovis) Stability in Unstable Environments
  • Characterization of Attenuated Theileria annulata Vaccines from Spain and the Sudan
  • Integrated Molecular Diagnosis of Theileria and Babesia Species of Cattle in Italy
  • Vaccination against Bovine Babesiosis
  • Part V.. Minisymposium on Present and Future Technologies for Tick Control
  • Past and Present National Tick Control Programs: Why They Succeed or Fail
  • Trials to Control South American Ticks with Entomopathogenic Fungi
  • Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Entomogenous Fungi for Tick Control
  • Role of Grooming in Biological Control of Ticks
  • Skin Test and Tick Immune Status in Susceptible and Resistant Cattle in Brazil
  • The Potential for Antitick Plants as Components of an Integrated Tick Control Strategy
  • Present and Future Technologies for Tick Control
  • Biocontrol of Ticks by Entomopathogenic Nematodes: Research Update
  • Part VI.. Poster Session
  • Generation of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Cytostatic Acting Cells in T. annulata-Immune Cattle
  • Efficacy and Safety of New Adjuvants
  • Cross Reactivity between Instars of the Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) Tick
  • Preliminary Results of a Larval Resistance Test to Ivermectins Using Boophilus microplus Reference Strains
  • Attenuated Trivalent Vaccine against Babesiosis and Anaplasmosis in Colombia
  • Immunological Control of Ticks through Vaccination with Boophilus microplus Gut Antigens
  • Evaluation of the MAP1b ELISA for the Diagnosis of Heartwater in South Africa
  • Insecticide Resistance Studies on Blattella germanica (Dictyoptera: Blattellidae) from Cuba
  • Serological Evidence of Exposure to Ehrlichia Species in Dogs in Spain
  • The Genetic Basis for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance in Veterinary Pathogens
  • Association of Botulism and Tetanus as Causative Agents of an Outbreak of Bovine Paraplegic Mortality in the Eastern Plains of Colombia
  • Immune Response of Naive Cattle to Successive Infestations of Boophilus microplus Ticks
  • Identification of Stage-Specific Genes in Schistosoma mansoni
  • Homologous and Heterologous Immune Reactions between Venezuelan Geographic Isolates of Anaplasma marginale
  • Improving Egg Production in Two Indigenous Communities through the Adaptation of Management Practices and Local Knowledge: The Results of Participative Research
  • Anaerobic Dog Bite Wound Infection
  • Isolation and Partial Characterization of the Montecitos Strain of Boophilus microplus (Canestrini, 1877) Multiresistant to Different Acaricides
  • Isolation and Morphological Characterization of Mosquito Spirochetes from a Lyme Disease Endemic Area
  • Proliferation and Cytokine Profile of T. annulata-Infected Ovine, Caprine, and Bovine Lymphoblastoid Cells
  • Safety Testing of Needle Free, Jet Injection Devices to Detect Contamination with Blood and Other Tissue Fluids
  • Red Meat Production and Meat Losses in Burkina Faso (1987-1997)
  • Canine Colonization and Transmission of Bordetella pertussis
  • Prevention of Disease Transmission in Primate Conservation
  • Index of Contributors