Essentials of Disease in Wild Animals
by Gary Wobeser

Essentials of Disease in Wild Animals deals with basic subjects such as the nature of disease, what causes disease, how disease is described and measured, how diseases spread and persist and the effects of disease on individual animals and populations.

Essentials of Disease in Wild Animals takes a general approach to health in wild animals, recognizing that disease is one ecological factor among many and that disease can never be considered satisfactorily in isolation.

Rather than focus on individual causative agents and their effect on the individual animal, the emphasis of this book is on why disease occurred, and on the complex interactions that occur among disease agents, the environment and host populations.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. What Is Disease?
3. What Causes Disease?
4. How Disease Is Detected, Described and Measured
5. Damage, Pathogenicity and Virulence
6. Defense, Resistance and Repair
7. Environmental Interactions
8. Transmission and Perpetuation of Infectious Disease
9. Noninfectious Disease: Nutrients and Toxicants
10. Effects of Disease on the Individual Animal
11. Effects of Disease on Populations of Animals
12. Diseases Shared with Humans and Domestic Animals
13. Disease Management
14. Round-up

Glossary
Scientific Names of Animals
Index

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