Addressing principles associated with breeding animals for enhanced health and resistance to specific diseases, this new edition provides an updated review of the field and is illustrated with examples covering many diseases of importance to livestock production across all major livestock species. Authored by experts in the field, the book covers techniques and approaches, viruses, TSEs, bacteria, parasites, vectors, and broader health issues seen in production systems, including metabolic diseases. The book will be an essential reference for professionals in the field, scientists and researchers, students, breeders, vets, agricultural advisors and policymakers.

The book is an essential reference for scientists, researchers and students of livestock breeding, as well as breeders, vets, agricultural advisors and policy makers.

CONTENTS:
PART ONE: PRINCIPLES AND METHODS
SECTION ONE: Introduction

SECTION TWO: The Immune System

SECTION THREE: Modelling Farm Animal Diseases

PART TWO: Viruses and TSEs

SECTION FOUR: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

SECTION FIVE: Viral Diseases in Chickens

SECTION SIX: Bovine Viral Diseases - The Role of Host Genetics

SECTION SEVEN: Genetics of Mastitis in Dairy Ruminants

SECTION EIGHT: Viral Diseases in Pigs

PART THREE: Bacteria

SECTION NINE: Breeding for Resistance to Viral Diseases in Salmonids

SECTION TEN: Salmonella in Chickens

SECTION ELEVEN: Escherichia coli and Salmonella in pigs

SECTION TWELVE: Genetic aspects of resistance to ovine footrot

PART FOUR: Parasites and Vectors

SECTION THIRTEEN: Breeding for Resistance to Nematode Infections

SECTION FOURTEEN: Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in Cattle

PART FIVE: Metabolic and Production Diseases

SECTION FIFTEEN: Metabolic Diseases in Sheep and Cattle

SECTION SIXTEEN: Genetics of Metabolic Diseases in Poultry