Susan E. Shaw

This complete reference offers authoritative coverage and timely answers to your questions pertaining to canine and feline arthropod-borne infectious diseases. It provides essential information on the overall significance of this group of diseases, plus arthropod biology and immunology, and current laboratory diagnostic methods. Individual chapters on each disease entity are grouped by causative organism (protozoan, bacterial, viral). Each chapter covers background etiology and epidemiology, including the role of wildlife species and zoonotic effects, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment. The book is illustrated throughout in color and contains photographs of clinical cases, hematology, cytology, and gross and microscopic pathology.