Bovine medicine : diseases and husbandry of cattle

Content: List of Colour Plates.List of Contributors.Preface.Preface to the First Edition.  PART I: Management:   1. Calf Rearing.2. Suckler Herds.3. Beef Finishing Systems.4. Dairy Farming.5. Heifer Rearing - 12 Weeks to Calving.6. Tropical Cattle Management.7. Ethnoveterinary Medicine in the Tropics.8. Heat Stress in Dairy Cattle.9. Nutrition.10. Alternative Forages.  PART II: Disease:   11. Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis in the Cow The Calf 12. Outline of Clinical Genetics.13. Congenital Conditions.14. Calf Diarrhoea.15. Salmonellosis.16. Digestive Disorders of Calves.17. Calf Respiratory Disease.18. Other Calf Problems Growing Cattle 19. Endoparasites.20. Respiratory Diseases.21. Trace Element Disorders Adult Cattle Mastitis and Teat Conditions 22. Anatomy, Physiology and Immunology of the Udder.23. Mastitis.24. Summer Mastitis.25. Bulk Milk Testing and Mastitis Monitoring.26. The Milking Machine.27. Skin Infections of the Bovine Teat and Udder and their Differential Diagnosis.28. Factors Affecting Milk Quality.29. The Enhancement of Bovine Mammary Gland Immunity through Vaccination.30. Antimicrobial Therapy of Mastitis Lameness 31. Foot Lameness.32. Lameness above the Foot Fertility 33. Reproductive Physiology in Cattle.34. Problems after Calving.35. Problems Associated with Oestrous Cyclicity.36. Failure to Conceive and Embryonic Loss.37. Foetal Loss and Abnormalities of Pregnancy.38. A Summary of Bull Infertility.39. Artificial Insemination and Diseases Transmitted by Semen.40. Embryo Transfer.41. Herd Fertility Management. (a) Beef cattle. (b) Dairy herds.42. Pharmacological Manipulation of Reproduction Major Infectious Diseases 43. Viral Diseases.(a) Blue tongue.(b) Enzootic bovine leukosis.(c) Foot-and-mouth disease.(d) Rinderpest.(e) Vesicular stomatitis.(f) Bovine immunodeficiency virus.44. Bacterial Conditions.45. Ectoparasites, Tick and Arthropod Borne Diseases Metabolic Problems 46. Major Metabolic Disorders.47. Metabolic Profiles System and Miscellaneous Conditions 48. Alimentary Conditions.49. Respiratory Conditions. (a). (b) Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP).50. Skin Conditions.51. Neurological Disorders.52. Ocular Diseases.53. Other Conditions.54. Major Poisoning Welfare 55. Welfare Therapy and Disease Prevention 56. Health, Housing and Hygiene.57. Biosecurity.58. Immunological Fundamentals.59. Vaccines and Vaccination of Cattle.60. Antiparasitics.61. Antimicrobial Agents.62. Inflammation, Pain and Anti-inflammatory Drugs.63. Growth Promoters in Cattle.64. Injection Damage.65. Alternative Medicine.66. Aspects of Bovine Surgery The Interaction of the Animal, Environment and Management 67. Stress and the Pathogenesis of Disease Global Variation in Cattle Practice 68. Diseases Related to Management in Europe.69. Cattle Disease in Africa.70. Rabies.71. Cattle Practice in Saudi Arabia.72. Bovine Medicine in New Zealand and Australia.73. North American Dairy Production and Veterinary Involvement.74. The North American Beef Industry.75. Cattle Disease in South America.  Index