Table of Contents:
  • Section 1: General overview
  • 1. The poultry industry / Steven Stenhouse
  • 2. How to carry out a field investigation / Michael J. Alcorn
  • 3. Laboratory investigation to support health programmes and disease diagnosis / Chris Morrow
  • 4. Biosecurity in poultry management / Stephen Lister
  • 5. Vaccines and Vaccination / Tibor Cserep
  • 6. Medicines and medication / Paul F. McMullin
  • 7. Legislation and poultry welfare / Sue Haslam
  • Section 2: Bacterial diseases
  • 8. Enterobacteriaceae / Stephen Lister, Paul Barrow
  • 9. Avian infections caused by species of Pasteurellaceae, Ornithobacterium and Riemerella: an introduction / Magne Bisgaard, A. Miki Bojesen, Jens P. Christensen
  • 10. Fowl cholera / Jens P. Christensen, A. Miki Bojesen, Magne Bisgaard
  • 11. Infectious coryza and related diseases / Pat J. Blackall, Karl-Heinz Hinz
  • 12. Gallibacterium infections and other avian Pasteurellaceae / A. Miki Bojesen, Jens P. Christensen, Magne Bisgaard
  • 13. Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale / Paul van Empel
  • 14. Riemerella infections / Magne Bisgaard, A. Miki Bojesen, Jens P. Christensen
  • 15. Avian bordetellosis (turkey coryza) / Karl-Heinz Hinz, G. Philip Wilding
  • 16. Campylobacter / Sarah Evans, Laura Powell
  • 17. Staphylococci, streptococci and enterococci / Joan A. Smyth, Perpetua McNamee
  • 18. Clostridia / Magne Kaldhusdal, Frank Jordan
  • 19. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
  • erysipelas / Frank Jordan, Magne Bisgaard
  • 20. Avian mycoplasmas / Janet M Bradbury, Chris Morrow
  • 21. Avian chlamydophilosis (chlamydiosis/psittacosis/ornithosis) / Zerai Woldehiwet
  • 22. Some other bacterial diseases / Frank Jordan, David J. Hampson
  • Section 3: Viral diseases
  • 23. Herpesviridae
  • Marek's disease virus / Venugopal Nair
  • Infectious laryngotracheitis / Richard C. Jones
  • Duck virus enteritis / Richard E. Gough
  • 24. Retroviridae / Laurence N. Payne
  • 25. Paramyxoviridae
  • Paramyxovirinae (Newcastle disease and other paramyxoviruses) / Dennis J. Alexander
  • Pneumovirinae / Richard C. Jones
  • 26. Orthomyxoviridae
  • Avian Influenza / Dennis J. Alexander
  • 7. Poxviridae / Michael A. Skinner
  • 28. Coronaviridae / Jane K.A. Cook
  • 29. Picornaviridae / Richard E. Gough, M. Stewart McNulty
  • 30. Birnarviridae / Thierry van den Berg
  • 31. Adenoviridae / Joan A. Smyth, M. Stewart McNulty
  • 32. Reoviridae
  • Reoviruses / M. Stewart McNulty, Richard C. Jones
  • Rotaviruses / Richard E. Gough, M. Stewart McNulty
  • 33. Astroviridae / Richard E. Gough, M. Stewart McNulty
  • 34. Circoviridae / Daniel Todd, M. Stewart McNulty
  • 35. Parvoviridae /Richard E. Gough
  • 36. Caliciviridae and hepeviruses / Richard E. Gough
  • 37. Arthropod-borne viruses / Ilaria Capua
  • Section 4: Fungal diseases
  • 38. Fungal diseases / Thomas Brown, Frank Jordan with Alisdair M. Wood Section 5: Parasitic diseases
  • 39. Parasitic diseases / Alexander J. Trees Section 6: Diseases of body systems
  • 40. Diseases of the musculoskeletal system / Barry H. Thorp
  • Section 7: Other disorders, poisons and toxins
  • 41. Practical epidemiology of poultry disease and multi-factorial conditions / J.J. (Sjaak) de Wit 42. Nutritional disorders / Patrick Garland
  • 43. Management as a cause of disease in poultry / Chris Morrow
  • 44. Toxicants in poultry / Alan Shlosberg 45 Diseases of gamebirds / Tom Pennycott
  • Appendix: Some useful data / Frank Jordan, Paul F. McMullin
  • Index.