Farm Animal Health and Welfare Disorders: Recent Trends and Strategies of Prevention and Treatment
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2025 | Viewed by 141
Special Issue Editors
Interests: porcine medicine; porcine herd health management; porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV); porcine-circovirus-associated diseases (PCVAD); porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC); reproductive diseases in sows and boars; welfare and production; heat stress; alternatives to antibiotics; vaccines; feed additives; mycotoxins; zoonoses
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Interests: porcine herd health management; porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV); porcine circovirus-associated diseases (PCVAD); porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC); welfare management; antioxidants; vaccines; mycotoxins; zoonoses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Health and welfare disorders in commercial farms are generally caused by multiple factors, including infectious and non-infectious agents. For this reason, the clinical picture of health and welfare problems in farms results usually from the interaction of pathogens, management and environmental factors.
In field conditions, veterinarians have to develop and follow a herd health program, including special issues on health, welfare, diagnosis, treatments, vaccinations, nutrition and biosecurity. Therefore, it is important to understand the recent trends in animal health and welfare disorders to develop new prevention and treatment strategies to improve the health, welfare and productive parameters in livestock farming.
The scope of this Special Issue is to present a broad-scope review of the most recent trends based on the pathogenesis of health and welfare disorders in farm animals and how these approaches result in new strategies for prevention and treatment strategies.
We invite authors to present their input regarding the animal health and welfare aspects of farm animals. Topics of special interest are herd health management, veterinary medicine, farm animal diseases and reproduction, genetics, housing, nutrition and epidemiology. Additional topics include aspects of animal welfare and ethics, legislation, and biosecurity.
Dr. Vasileios Papatsiros
Dr. Georgios Papakonstantinou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- swine
- poultry
- cattle
- small ruminants
- infectious diseases
- non-infectious disease
- zoonotic diseases
- welfare
- herd health management
- prevention
- treatment
- vaccines
- alternative to antibiotics
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