• Skin Diseases of Cattle in the Tropics: A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment is a clinical and practical guide to help animal scientists, field veterinarians, veterinary students, and technicians make appropriate and differential diagnoses. It features quizzes of clinical cases, along with multiple images of characteristic lesions and laboratory findings of major skin diseases (and diseases with skin manifestations) that are prevalent in tropical areas, notably the Sub-Saharan African countries.

    This self-learning and easy-to-use instructional guide, a unique offering in the field of animal science and veterinary medicine, provides essential and foundational information about relevant skin conditions that are followed by illustrated flow charts of laboratory diagnoses and summaries of respective diseases.

    This title makes the subject accessible for practicing veterinarians and animal scientists, and is particularly useful for those who have neither seen nor had the chance to see these diseases in the field or clinics. Such diseases are important not only in the tropics, but may be encountered in many countries in subtropical and temperate zones.

    Key Features

    • Features more than 100 images of lesions and laboratory findings of major skin diseases and diseases with skin manifestations that are prevalent in tropical areas
    • Includes clinical-case quizzes for self-directed learning
    • Covers laboratory diagnosis, clinical presentations, and the summary of all important facts about the disease, including their etiology

    Readership

    Animal scientists working with and studying cattle, veterinarians, including field veterinary doctors, veterinary practitioners, technicians and Assistants; veterinary students: BVSc veterinary medical students; Researchers: Postgraduate students in the fields of veterinary science and animal production, epidemiologists and immunologists studying the relevant skin diseases

    • Introduction
    • Part 1: Clinical Presentations, Laboratory Diagnosis and Disease Summaries
      • Clinical Quiz No. 1
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Dermatophilosis (Streptothricosis, Rain Scald)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 2
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Dermatophycosis (Ringworm)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 3
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Bovine Besnoitiosis (Elephant Skin Disease)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 4
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Sarcoptic Mange (Scabies)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 5
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Sarcoptic and Demodectic Mange (Mixed Mange)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 6
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Papillomatosis (Warts)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 7
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Actinomycosis (Lumpy Jaw)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 8
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Bovine Farcy (Nocardiosis)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 9
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Skin Tuberculosis (Tuberculous Lymphadenitis)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 10
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Lumpy Skin Disease (Chronic Lesions)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 11
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Demodectic Mange (Demodicosis)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 12
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Cutaneous Hypodermatitis (Cattle Grubs)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 13
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Cutaneous Myiasis
      • Clinical Quiz No. 14
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Photosensitization (Photosensitive Dermatitis)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 15
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Filarial Dermatitis (Cutaneous Parafilarosis)
      • Clinical Quiz No. 16
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Tick Infestation
      • Clinical Quiz No. 17
        • Abstract
        • Laboratory Diagnosis
        • Diagnosis: Bovine Ulcerative Mammillitis (Bovine Herpesvirus II)
    • Appendix
      • Giemsa’s Stain
      • Gram’s Stain
      • Hematoxylin and Eosin Stain
      • Potassium Hydroxide (10% KOH)
      • Potassium Hydroxide (10% KOH) with Parker Ink
      • Lactophenol Cotton Blue
      • India Ink
    • Further Reading
    • Index

  • Mohamed Hamid

    Dr. Hamid is associate professor in the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia, with nearly 3 decades of experience in teaching, student management, research, and staff management. He holds an undergraduate veterinary degree and postgraduate qualification in clinical microbiology related to bovine diseases, and taught veterinary preventive medicine from 1997-2003 at the University of Khartoum.

    Affiliations and Expertise

    Department of Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

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