Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology

A case study of a neutered male domestic shorthaired cat who presented for evaluation of hyporexia and labored breathing of three weeks' duration.

Drs. Cook and Nelson offer an overview of diagnostics, treatment, prognosis and prevention for feline infectious peritonitis.

Need-to-know information about minimizing the risk of disease transmission and documenting infection incidence in a healthcare setting.

Mortality rate in suckling pigs as high as 100 percent creates potential impact on pork supply.

Skin graft techniques used in human medicine utilized in veterinary treatment of Northstar's wounds.

Elanco gains assets used for the production of bovine and feline vaccines.

Entire flock at Tyson-supplier farm euthanized as precaution.

Price tag now tops $1.2 billion.

Funds for high-risk NBAF project secured in 2014 federal budget, but not without request for state matching funds.

Producers who once ordered drugs direct from manufacturer will now need veterinary prescription.

Novartis parasiticide has been out of production since December 2011.

New status expected to be adopted at animal health assembly in May.

Vaccination recommendations can be confusing to pet owners. This toolkit delivers team training, free client handouts, exam room education strategies and more, all designed to make it as easy as possible for veterinarians and their teams to explain vaccinations to pet owners. (With an educational grant provided by Zoetis)

Cost analysis of the five most common preventive pet conditions in 2012 revealed.

Check off these precautions when handling patients with an infectious disease.

Has one of these resistant infections invaded one of your patients? What should you do now to eliminate the infection? Read on...

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Mizzou veterinarian sees large spike in bacterial infection.

Infection first reported at King Ranch, legendary for its world-class quarter horses.

A look at how to best halt these infections in shelters.

Will current point-of-care tests detect this new variant-CPV2c?

Virus widely circulates in U.S. swine throughout agricultural fair season.

USDA grants conditional license for vaccine that can be developed on U.S. mainland.

Frankfort, Ky. -- Warm, wet weather in Kentucky over the last few weeks means conditions are ripe for an outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV), and equine owners are being warned to vaccine their horses against the disease.

Thirty-two dogs, at least one cat and a number of livestock all have been euthanized near Carlsbad, N.M. following exposure to rabies.

With more cats now exposed to this tick-borne disease, a new treatment option is timely.

Schaumburg, Ill. - The American Veterinary Medical Association is rebutting claims made by multiple media outlets that an increase in distemper cases at shelters are due to new virus strains.

A look at the rabies vaccination rates in Texas before and after triennial vaccination was allowed.

Help uncover the cause of Max's lethargy, weight loss, and rapid breathing.

Geneva, Switzerland -- It would be better to delay publishing recently contested studies on mutated H5N1 viruses than to publish partial papers in order to address bioterrorism concerns, according to an expert group recently convened by the World Health Organization (WHO).