New section: Glässer’s disease
18-Jun-2009 (16 years 11 months 18 days ago)
We present a new section on Glässer’s disease, caused by Haemophilus parasuis. The duration will be for 4 months, with a publication every fortnight.
The coordinator and main author will be Virginia Aragón, doctor of biology and researcher at the Animal Welfare Research Center (Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal, CReSA, UAB, Spain), where her work is based on the study of the virulence of Haemophilus parasuis.
The index is as follows:
The coordinator and main author will be Virginia Aragón, doctor of biology and researcher at the Animal Welfare Research Center (Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal, CReSA, UAB, Spain), where her work is based on the study of the virulence of Haemophilus parasuis.
The index is as follows:
Etiology. What is Glässer’s disease of swine?
Risk factors
Pathogenicity: why are some strains pathogenic while some are not?
Clinical and pathologic diagnosis
Laboratory diagnosis
Epidemiology and typing
Immunity and serotype
Control: prevention and treatment