How can veterinarians base their medical decisions on the best available scientific evidence? [0.03%]
兽医师如何以最佳的科研证据为基础进行医疗决策?
Jean-Michel Vandeweerd,Peter Clegg,Sébastien Buczinski
Jean-Michel Vandeweerd
With the advent of a One World-One Health concept, veterinarians will play a central role, at the level of trading zones (such as the European Union), countries, food production farms, and individual animals. They will be mandated to produc...
Preface: Johne's Disease [0.03%]
前言:约翰氏病
Michael T Collins
Michael T Collins
David Kennedy
David Kennedy
Johne’s disease has spread with livestock movements across the globe during the past century. International interest and collaboration in research and disease control have increased in the past 20 years. Control within infected herds and f...
Michael A Carter
Michael A Carter
Paratuberculosis control in the United States has a long history, but only since 2002 has the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) had a formal control program in place. Modeled after work by the United States Animal Health Association (USAH...
Michael T Collins
Michael T Collins
Both ante mortem and post mortem contamination of foods of animal origin commonly occurs. Food manufacturing practices fail to reliably kill Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) due to its innate resistance to heat and other ph...
Elizabeth J B Manning
Elizabeth J B Manning
All ruminant species, exotic or domestic, captive or free-ranging, are susceptible to disease and death due to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection. Young ruminants are the most prone to infection through fecal-oral t...
Suelee Robbe-Austerman
Suelee Robbe-Austerman
The clinical presentation of paratuberculosis in small ruminants is unthriftiness (poor body condition); severe diarrhea is not a common clinical sign. In the USA, goats are primarily infected with bovine strains of paratuberculosis and she...
Franklyn Garry
Franklyn Garry
Control of Johne’s disease in dairy herds involves 3 basic steps: prevent exposure of calves to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), identify and eliminate MAP-infected cows from the herd, and prevent entry of MAP-infected an...
Allen J Roussel
Allen J Roussel
As with any susceptible livestock species, the key to control of paratuberculosis in beef cattle is to reduce exposure of the susceptible calves to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP)–contaminated feces. Because beef calves r...
Diagnosis of paratuberculosis [0.03%]
副结核病的诊断
Michael T Collins
Michael T Collins
There is a wide array of accurate and affordable diagnostic tests for Johne’s disease. The challenge is to be clear on the purpose for testing and then use the diagnostic test appropriate to that purpose for the specific animal species or ...