Table of Contents:
  • Update on emerging infectious diseases
  • Emerging infectious diseases : zoos at the interface of human, livestock and wildlife health
  • Survey of species susceptibility to bluetongue virus and blue tongue vaccine usage in European zoos during 2008
  • Developing a vaccination plan and serological responses of BTV - 8 vaccinated zoo animals
  • Cowpox virus infection in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in a zoo
  • Erysipelas in a northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita) colony in a zoological garden in Switzerland
  • Comparison of PCR assays for the detection of avian borna virus in histologically proven cases with proventricular dilatation disease in psittacines
  • The importance of the scuffle - or humpbacked fly (megaselia scalaris) in zoological gardens
  • Mycobacterosis in amphibians - an update
  • Reptiles
  • Characterisation of normal and abnormal reproductive cycles in female veiled chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) by faecal hormone metabolites
  • Comparison of body size development in captive and free-ranging leopard tortoises (Geochelone pardalis)
  • Ultrasonographic evaluation of the postprandial heart veriation in juvenile Paraguayan anacondas (Eunectes notaeus)
  • Management, diagnosis and tratment of an inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) with a tumor - like swelling in the heart region at Singapore Zoological Garden
  • Management of small, structured populations
  • Management of small populations - ethical considerations and reflections about the modern zoo : marketing and cooperation inside EAZA
  • To kill or not to kill - the anti-contraception position
  • Life expectancy in captive deer : a possibility to evaluate husbandry management in zoos
  • Up, over the top, or down? Population development in closed captive populations of wild ruminants
  • Management of MCF in a mixed species enclosure : establishment of an ovine herpesvirus 2 - free moufflon population (Ovis aries musimon)
  • Successful contraception in a female giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) using the GnRH analogue implant deslorelin acetate (Suprelorelin®) as assessed by faecal progeragen monitoring
  • Free topics I
  • Bilateral patellaficaion in sub-adult reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata)
  • Management of idiopathic epilepsy in a femile Grevy's zebra (Equus prevyi) with potassium bromide and therapeutic drug
  • Medical management of giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in the new millennium
  • Effects of lactobacillus treatments on the gut flora of juveniles and adult blue macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii, Anodortohynchus leari, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), Qatar
  • Best practice techniques
  • Best practice techniques and the challenge of mixed species exhibits
  • Stress - reduced handling techniques in the Phillip's dikdik (Madoqua saltiana phillopsi) at Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP), Qatar
  • Plasma lactate concentrations in free-ranging moose (Alces alces) immobilised with etorphine : preliminary results
  • Comparison of McMaster and Flotac for the detection and quantification of gastro-intestinal parasites in captive wild ruminants
  • Laparoscopic ovariohysterectomy in a brown bear (Ursus arctos) with pyometra
  • Laser assisted treatment and filling of an exposed pulp cavity in a 4 yer old African elephant bull (Loxodonta africana) in Socto Zoo, Hungary
  • Veterinary considerations in providing environmental enrichment for rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) : practice examples
  • Primates
  • Management of an outbreak of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a rehabilitation centre for vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in South America
  • Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia in a red-faced black spider monkey
  • Computertomographic evaluation of the upper respiratory tract in orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus, Pongo abeill)
  • Unintentional lethal rodenticide poisoning in 8 young macaques (Macaca fascicularis) plus 3 possible survivors. Curiosity killed the macaque
  • Intensive care treatment of 2 neonatal gorilla with sepsis, electrolyte imbalances and severe dehydration
  • Free topics II
  • Great animals, great ideas - systematic planning in order to generate great research and conservation impact
  • Veterinarian participation at the critically endanged lesser blind mole rat (Nannospalax leucodon) research in Hungary
  • Comparative parasitological examination on sympatric equids in the greaterGobi "B" strictly protected area, Mongolia
  • Prevalence of metastrongyloid parasites in the red panda (Ailulrus fulgens)
  • Embryonic loss in an Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) - a case report
  • Successful treatment of streptococcus meningoencephalitis in a black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis michaeli)
  • Ulstrasound - guided amniocentesis in European brown hare (Lepus europaeus)
  • Diseases in carnivores
  • Felid diseases - review and update on actual literature
  • Liver failure due to acquired portosystemic shunts in a Northeast African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus soemmeringii)
  • Overview of long-term health, reproduction and generic research on Namibia cheetah (Panthera leo krugeri)
  • A report of iron deficeincy anaemia in a 3 month old African lion (Panthera leo krugeri)
  • Review of diseases in snow leopareds (Uncia uncia)
  • Investigation of a feline panleukipaenia virus infection in vaccinated Arabian sand cats (Felis margarita harrisoni)
  • Free topics III
  • Mortality and morbidity of wild elephants (Elephas maximus maximus) of Sri Lanka, as a result of liver flukes (Fasciola jacksoni)
  • Survey on accidental human exposure among veterinaians to injectable anaesthetics
  • Expeditionary capture and anaesthesia in the very wild - a planning aid
  • Posters