Animal-disease + comparative-medicine: Koch's postulates / livestock-pathogens / wildlife-disease / one-health framework / companion-animal pharmacology / herd-management.
Veterinary And Comparative Medicine
Koch's postulates (veterinary)
Koch 1884: 4 criteria to establish microbe causes disease. Foundational for veterinary-pathology + One-Health. Modern: extended to…
Livestock disease (FMD / BSE / avian flu)
FMD (1967 UK / 2001 outbreak), BSE (1986-2000 / vCJD link), H5N1 / H7N9 avian-influenza. Trade + public-health implications. OIE/WOAH…
One Health + zoonotic spillover
Zinsstag 2011 One-Health: human + animal + environmental health interconnected. ~75% emerging-infectious-disease zoonotic. SARS-CoV-2 /…
Comparative medicine (mouse / zebrafish models)
Mouse / rat / zebrafish / pig / NHP as disease-models. Knockout mice (Capecchi-Smithies-Evans Nobel 2007). Cross-species drug-discovery +…
Veterinary pharmacology + extralabel use
AMDUCA 1994: extralabel-use of FDA-approved drugs in animals under specified conditions. Withdrawal-times for milk + meat residues.…
Companion animal medicine
Dog + cat care: vaccinations / dental / orthopedic / oncology. Veterinary specialties: surgery / internal-med / cardiology / ophthalmology.…
Wildlife disease + conservation medicine
White-nose syndrome bats (2006-); chytridiomycosis amphibians; CWD chronic-wasting-disease deer / elk. Wildlife-Conservation-Society +…
Herd health management
SPC statistical-process-control + records-systems for prevention vs treatment focus. Reproductive efficiency + somatic-cell-count +…
Aquaculture + fish-shellfish disease
Aquaculture supplies ~50% global seafood. Disease control: ISA infectious-salmon-anaemia / WSSV white-spot-syndrome shrimp. Antibiotic-use…
Antimicrobial resistance + livestock
Davies 2013 review: livestock antibiotic-use drives AMR globally. WHO essential-medicines protected. EU 2006 ban growth-promoter abx. ~70%…
Vaccines for livestock + poultry
Inactivated + live-attenuated + vector + DNA / mRNA vaccines. Newcastle disease / Marek's / IBR / FMD / BVD / PRRSV. Mass-vaccination +…
Comparative genomics (Broad / mammalian)
Lindblad-Toh 2011 / Zoonomia 2020: 240+ mammal genomes aligned. Constraint-based functional-elements. Phylogenomic relationships +…
Spillover (Plowright 2017)
Plowright 2017 spillover-cascade barrier framework; modern One-Health 2003+ approach to zoonotic disease.
Comparative pathology (Graham 1995)
Graham 1995 comparative-pathology: human-disease models in animals; modern translational-research GLP-OECD standards.
Five domains (Mellor 2015)
D Mellor 2015 5-domains animal welfare; nutrition + environment + health + behavior + mental-state.
HPAI H5N1 (2024 outbreak)
H5N1 2.3.4.4b clade global cattle + dairy outbreak 2024; modern wastewater-surveillance + USDA-FDA bovine raw-milk testing.
Zoonomia (Christmas 2023)
Christmas 2023 240-mammal comparative-genomics; modern constraint mapping + disease-variant interpretation.
Vet antibiotic stewardship
WHO 2017 + EU-2018 antibiotic-stewardship in food-animals; modern Rx-only veterinary antimicrobial use 2017+.