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Anatomy, Histology and Pathology

Editors: Dr. Louis C. Penning, Prof. Dr. Mark L. Weiss

The Section “Anatomy, Histology and Pathology” aims at understand animal and human health and disease by disseminating studies are directed at anatomical- and histological-level. We seek high-quality work that extends our understanding of disease across the animal kingdom. By expandin...

167 articles

Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Immunology

Editor: Kristina Kadlec

Animals are exposed to various pathogens from birth to death. Therefore, understanding the pathogenicity of animal pathogens and exploring animal immunology are the basis and key to the prevention and control of animal diseases.

This section focuses on the diagnosis, pathogenicity, infect...

707 articles

Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases in Veterinary Medicine

Nutrition has an important role in animal health. Many metabolic diseases or non-communicable diseases are caused by nutrient deficiency and nutritional disorders which become factors that seriously endanger animal health. Thus more and more studies in this veterinary area emerged in recent years...

181 articles

Veterinary Education, Veterinary Communication and Animal Behavior

The main task of veterinary education is to train qualified veterinarians. The task of modern veterinarians is not only to ensure the health of livestock, to promote the development of animal husbandry, and to provide human beings with sufficient meat, eggs, and milk. Moreover, through the preven...

109 articles

Veterinary Biomedical Sciences

Editor: Dr. Louise van der Weyden

Veterinary biomedical sciences focus on the biology of animal health and disease. It is through investigations into the underlying biology of a disease that pave the way for diagnosis and treatment options and, where possible, prevention. As part of the One Health Initiative, cross-species compar...

222 articles

Veterinary Food Safety and Zoonosis

Editor: Prof. Dr. Aizhen Guo

A zoonosis is any disease or infection caused by the nature transmission of pathogenic germs carried by vertebrate animals to humans. More than half of all known or emerging infectious diseases in human come from animals. The germs can spread to people through different ways, including (in)direct...

73 articles

Veterinary Internal Medicine

Editor: Prof. Dr. Ángel Sainz

The scope of veterinary internal medicine is the occurrence, development, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of animal diseases. Its main focus is common, frequent, and cluster diseases along with the mechanisms of disease occurrence, clinical signs, diagnoses, therapeutics, and prevention meth...

211 articles

Veterinary Physiology, Pharmacology, and Toxicology

Pharmacology and toxicology are frontier areas of veterinary science. As emerging disciplines, they are involved in the development of new compounds, especially new antibiotics and antiparasitics for the control of infectious diseases, as well as analgesics/non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs f...

77 articles

Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics

Editor: Dr. Fred Sinowatz

Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics is a branch of veterinary science which plays an important role in protecting animal reproductive health, preventing and controlling reproductive diseases, and promoting animal husbandry.

The Veterinary Reproduction and Obstetrics section is dedicate...

206 articles

Veterinary Surgery

Editor: Prof. Dr. Francesco Staffieri

Veterinary surgery is a branch of veterinary medicine. Veterinary surgery is used to diagnose and treat livestock diseases (including injuries and deformities) based on surgical methods, combined with drugs and physical therapy, and occupies an important position in veterinary clinical work. It i...

123 articles