Dogs, zoonoses, and public health /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000.
• Subjects: Zoonoses.; Communicable diseases in animals.; Animals as carriers of disease.; Dogs > Diseases.; Public health.; Pets and Companion Animals.; Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000); Protozoan, Helminth and Arthropod Parasites of Humans, (New March 2000); Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts, (New March 2000); Dogs.; Man.; Books.; Dog diseases.; Helminths.; Rabies.; Electronic books.
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Domestication of the dog some 14,000 years ago has enabled this species to become the most abundant carnivore in the world today with an estimated population of 500 million. Dogs perform a wide range of roles from working as guides for the blind and deaf, guarding, protecting and driving sheep and c...

Table of Contents:

• The human-dog relationship : a tale of two species / Alan M. Beck
• Dog ecology and population biology / Hans C. Matter and Thomas J. Daniels
• Dogs and rabies / Alexander I. Wandeler and John Bingham
• Dogs and bacterial zoonoses / Bruno B. Chomel, Jonathan J. Arzt
• Dogs and protozoan zoonoses / Richard W. Ashford, Karen F. Snowden
• Dogs and trematode zoonoses / Ralph Muller
• Dogs and cestode zoonoses / Calum N.L. Macpherson, Philip S. Craig
• Dogs and nematode zoonoses / Paul A.M. Overgaauw, Frans van Knapen
• Dogs and ectoparasitic zoonoses / Cathy F. Curtis
• Zoonoses and immunosuppressed populations / Robert A. Robinson
• Dog population management / Joy Leney and Jenny Remfry
• Zoonoses control in dogs / Francois X. Meslin, Michael A. Miles, J. Alejandro Vexenat and Michael A. Gemmell.