Bovine respiratory disease

This book is a comprehensive review of the Bovine RespiratoryDisease (BRD), a condition that causes significant economic losses on cattle farms. It is divided into five chapters, in which important aspects such as epidemiology, predisposing factors, main pathogens involved, diagnosis, prophylaxis and treatment of the disease, among other specificities, are addressed. One of the chapters is a compilation of actual clinical cases. Thanks to the authors broad experience in the fields of research and education, this work contains updated information about this disease, whose scientific validity has been established, and is written in a structured way, with a clear didactic style that makes it easy to read. An indispensable book for all the veterinary professionals whose work focuses on cattle.

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• 1. Introduction
• BRD: definition and synonyms
• Incidence, morbidity, mortality and economic importance
• 2. Aetiopathogenesis
•   Epidemiological triad
•       The host 
•       Environment/stress
•       Main pathogens involved in BRD
•   BRD: pathological classification of pneumonia
•       Interstitial
•       Bronchopneumonia
•       Other pneumonias
•       Upper respiratory tract problems
•       Evolution
• 3. Diagnosis
•   Clinical diagnosis of BRD
•       Diagnosis of BRD in individual animals
•       Diagnostic protocols in the herd
•       Differential diagnosis of BRD
•   Aetiological diagnosis
•       Sampling
•       Laboratory methods
•   Pathological diagnosis
•       Necropsy
•       Presence or absence of lesions
• Epidemiological diagnosis
• 4. Treatment and prevention
•   Treatment of BRD
•   Prevention of BRD
•       Vaccination
•       Metaphylaxis
• 5. Resolution of clinical cases: practical examples
•   BRD caused by M. haemolytica in stocker calves at feedlot entry
•   BRD caused by P. multocida during brearing
•   Outbreak of interstitial pneumonia
•   Outbreak of M. bovis in a poor quality lot
•   Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
•   Embolic pneumonia due to thrombosis of the posterior vena cava