key: cord-0041421-wpbhvq2t authors: Shephard, R title: Viral Diseases of Cattle date: 2008-03-10 journal: Aust Vet J DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2001.tb10930.x sha: 5777a6e146bb4aff71541f33b073dc905628920c doc_id: 41421 cord_uid: wpbhvq2t nan T his book provides both the scientific principles of virology and the practical day-to-day application of theory in dealing with viral diseases of cattle. The author's objective was to make this reference book applicable to practitioners, students, teachers, diagnosticians, animal scientists, regulatory officials, trade negotiators and scientists. The introductory chapter on viruses and virology briefly discusses virus structure, replication and classification. The important issues of viral infections including clinical presentation, endemic and exotic disease, inapparent infection, emerging disease, clinical diagnosis and multifactorial disease are presented in chapter two. This material flows logically into chapter three; the epidemiology of bovine viral infections, which presents the (very) basic epidemiological principles of infectious disease. Diagnostic and investigative techniques are presented in chapter four. These techniques include physical examination, postmortem examination, techniques for examining herd outbreaks, and laboratory tests. The role of antibodies in the diagnosis of viral disease is discussed with emphasis upon the effect of passive immunity, role of single and paired serum samples and the individual laboratory tests, such as ELISA. Vaccines and vaccination are discussed in chapter five. The effectiveness, advantages and disadvantages of both modified live and inactivated vaccines are presented along with the basic principles of a vaccination program. The important clinical manifestations of viral disease are presented in chapter six. These include abortion, diarrhoea, bovine respiratory disease, mucosal diseases, vesicular diseases, and neurological, ocular and other system disorders. Disinfection is presented in chapter seven. The impact of bovine viral diseases on international trade is presented in chapter eight. Individual chapters are provided for adenoviruses, bluetongue, bovine immunodeficiency-like virus, bovine leukemia virus, bovine viral diarrhoea, coronavirus, enteroviruses, papillomaviruses, herpes mamillitis, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, malignant catarrhal fever, papular stomatitis, parainfluenza type-3, parvovirus, poxvirus, pseudorabies, rabies, respiratory syncytial virus, rhinoviruses, rotavirus, vesicular stomatitis, akabane and bunyavirus, ephemeral fever, foot-and-mouth disease, lumpy skin disease, rift valley fever, rinderpest and bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Each chapter presents aetiology, clinical signs and lesions, effects on the developing foetus, necropsy findings, diagnosis, epidemiology, prevention and control and issues on eradication, international trade and public health. Each chapter is self-contained and provides a useful summary of each disease. This text covers a broad range of subject matter in order to provide a wide appeal. The moderate length of the book has resulted in a brief discussion on each topic. As a result this text is at best an introduction to many viral diseases and principles (such as disinfection, vaccination and epidemiology). This text would be a useful addition to university libraries for student access. Practitioners and specialists would find little extra information in this book that cannot be obtained from other available sources. Dr Richard Shephard is a veterinarian and farm advisor working at Maffra Herd Improvement Co-operative, Maffra, Victoria. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The economic impact of cattle tick in Australia Cattle Tick Control Commission. Cattle tick in Australia -Cattle Tick Control Commission Inquiry -Report Costs of major parasites to the Australian livestock industries The economics of cattle tick control in dry tropical Australia Epizootiological factors in the control of bovine babesiosis Attitudes and practices of Queensland dairy farmers to the control of the cattle tick, Boophilus microplus Production effects of cattle tick (Boophilus microplus) infestation of high yielding dairy cows Ecology of the cattle tick (Boophilus microplus) in sub-tropical Australia. 3. Modeling populations on different breeds of cattle Queensland dairy accounting scheme handbook. Department of Primary Industries Queensland Information series QI 96005 Economic analysis of alternative AD control programmes This research was supported by the Dairy Research and Development Corporation and by the Department of Primary Industries, Queensland. Thanks are also due to Richard Moss of DPI Queensland, for assistance with the calculations of rations and costs of feeds for dairy cattle.