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Author Hamid, Mohamed Elamin, author

Title Skin diseases of cattle in the Tropics : a guide to diagnosis and treatment / Mohamed E. Hamid
Published London, UK : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 88 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Cover; Skin Diseases of Cattle in the Tropics; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; I. Clinical Presentations, Laboratory Diagnosis and Disease Summaries; Clinical Quiz No. 1; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Dermatophilosis (Streptothricosis, Rain Scald); Answer and Disease Summary; Etiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 2; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Dermatophycosis (Ringworm)
Answer and Disease SummaryEtiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 3; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Bovine Besnoitiosis (Elephant Skin Disease); Answer and Disease Summary; Etiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 4; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Sarcoptic Mange (Scabies)
Answer and Disease SummaryEtiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 5; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Sarcoptic and Demodectic Mange (Mixed Mange); Answer and Disease Summary; Etiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 6; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Papillomatosis (Warts)
Answer and Disease SummaryEtiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 7; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Actinomycosis (Lumpy Jaw); Answer and Disease Summary; Etiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 8; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Bovine Farcy (Nocardiosis); Answer and Disease Summary
EtiologySource and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 9; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Skin Tuberculosis (Tuberculous Lymphadenitis); Answer and Disease Summary; Etiology; Source and Transmission; Occurrence; Clinical Findings and Lesions; Differential Diagnosis; Treatment; Control and Prevention; Clinical Quiz No. 10; Laboratory Diagnosis; Specimen; Laboratory Tests and Findings; Diagnosis: Lumpy Skin Disease (Chronic Lesions)
Summary Skin Diseases of Cattle in the Tropics: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment is a clinical and practical guide to help animal scientists, field veterinarians, veterinary students, and technicians make appropriate and differential diagnoses. It features quizzes of clinical cases, along with multiple images of characteristic lesions and laboratory findings of major skin diseases (and diseases with skin manifestations) that are prevalent in tropical areas, notably the Sub-Saharan African countries. This self-learning and easy-to-use instructional guide, a unique offering in the field of animal science and veterinary medicine, provides essential and foundational information about relevant skin conditions that are followed by illustrated flow charts of laboratory diagnoses and summaries of respective diseases. This title makes the subject accessible for practicing veterinarians and animal scientists, and is particularly useful for those who have neither seen nor had the chance to see these diseases in the field or clinics. Such diseases are important not only in the tropics, but may be encountered in many countries in subtropical and temperate zones
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cattle -- Diseases -- Diagnosis -- Tropics
Cattle -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Tropics
Veterinary dermatology.
Cattle.
Cattle Diseases -- diagnosis
Cattle Diseases -- therapy
Dermatology -- veterinary
Cattle
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
Cattle
Cattle -- Diseases -- Diagnosis
Cattle -- Diseases -- Treatment
Veterinary dermatology
Tropics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780128110553
0128110554