Additional Resources

Updated 08/8/00

Unit 2 Resources

• "Enteropathogenic E. coli, Salmonella, and Shigella:   Masters of Host Cell Cytoskeletal Exploitation" Emerging Infectious Diseases 5(2), 1999, p. 216-223.
• "Bacterial Toxins:  Friends or Foes?"  Emerging Infectious Diseases 5(2), 1999, p. 224-234.

Unit 3 Resources

• Pfizer Animal Health "The Healthy Immune system -- Overview"
• "Vaccines for Mucosal Immunity to Combat Energing Infectious Disease" Emerging Infectious Diseases 6 (2), 2000, p. 123-132.

Unit 4 Resources

Unit 5 Resources

Information on Drugs

• FDA Investigators' Reports -- Companies, Employees Answer to Corrupt Milk Practices
• FDA Consumer Magazine -- The Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections
• An Approach for Establishing Thresholds in Accociation with the Use of  Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals (CVM)
•  FDA Order Prohibits Extralabel Use of Fluoroquinolones and Glycopeptides
• FDA Approval Withdrawn for Poultry Fluoroquinolone Drugs
• Pfizer Animal Drug Site
• New Animal Drug Approval Abstracts
• Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database
• Human Drug Products
• The Veterinary Feed Directive
• Antimicrobial Resistance: Center for Veterinary Medicine: Latest in Antimicrobial Resistance Information
• FDA/CVM Horse Ownership Info (contains info about OTC and RX drugs for horses)

Unit 6 Resources

• A workable Herd Health Program
• Cattle Vaccines (University of Maryland, National Dairy Database)

Part 1 -- Newborn ruminants

• Johne's Information Center
• Controlling Infectious Diseases of the Dairy Calf
• Weak Calf Syndrome

Part 2 -- Metabolic Disease

• Dairy Herd Management  HEALTH: Management can prevent ketosis
• Dairy Herd Management  HEALTH: Tips for preventing ketosis
• Dairy Today  "The Rumen Has It"

Part 3 -- Mastitis

• Mastitis Treatment

Part 5 -- Reproductive Health

• HEALTH AND REPRODUCTIVE ASPECTS OF THE PERIPARTUM COW
• RETAINED PLACENTA: A MATTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL CAUSES
• Scientists Finger Accomplice of Calf-Killing Parasite
• When Should I have My Beef Cows Pregnancy Checked? VMRCVM Food Animal Newsletter, "Hoofprints" Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1999

Part 6 -- Lameness

• Footbaths - HoofPrints Food Animal Newsletter VMRCVM Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1998

Unit 7 Resources

• Equine Veterinary Network
• The Horseman's Advisor

Unit 8 Resources -- Reptile Health Management

• Reptile Keeper’s Handbook, Susan M. Barnard, ed. 1996, Krieger Publishing Co., Malibar. Florida.
• Husbandry, Medicine & Surgery in Captive Reptiles, Fredric L. Frye, ed. 1973, VM Publishing, Inc., Bonner Springs, Kansas.
• The Care of Reptiles and Amphibians in Captivity, Chris Mattison, ed., 1987, Blandford Press, London, UK.
• Reptile-Associated Salmonellosis -- Selected States, 1996-1998.  Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, Nov. 12, 1999.
• What is a Healthy Reptile?  University of Florida, Animal Care & Use
• Herpetology Websites -- Florida Museum of Natural History

Unit 10 Resources

Part I -- Swine Management Procedures to Minimize Disease

• Hog health  Hogs Today, July/August 1998
• Are early weaning and age segregation working? Hogs Today, July/August 1997
• Hog Health, Seven Steps to Better Health, Hogs Today, November 1997

Part II -- Enteric Health Concerns of Swine

• Effective actions against E. coli, Hogs Today, July/August 1997

• Winter Often Brings TGE Outbreak, Hogs Today, January, 1998
• Enteric Diseases Stage a Quiet Comeback, National Hog Farmer, May, 1999
• Battling Baby Pig Scours, National Hog Farmer, July 15, 2000.

Part III -- Respiratory Health in Swine

• Sew and Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex

• Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex, Cary Honnold, Purdue University

Parts III and IV -- Reproductive Health Concerns in Swine

• Control PRRS with herd-specific sow immunization, Hogs Today, June, 1997
  
• Prepare for Summer Breeding Slump, Hogs Today, June, 1998
• Toxoplasma:  The Silent Stalker, National Hog Farmer, Sept. 1999

Unit 11 Resources -- Health Management in Aquatic Species

• "Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes", John A. Plumb, ed., 1999, Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA.
• "Fish Disease:  Diagnosis and Treatment", edward J. Noga, ed., 1996, Mosby-Year Book, Inc.
• Aquarium information -- http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/MNAALAS/Fish.html
• AquaNIC
• Other links

Unit 12 Resources -- Canine Health Management

• Vaccinations -- Recomendations of the American Animal Hospital Association

• Dog News -- Morris Animal Foundation

• Pet care -- American Veterinary Medical Association

• Healthy Pets -- American Animal Hospital Association

• American Kennel Club

• Guide to Congenital and Heritable Disorders in Dogs

Unit 13 Resources -- Feline Health Management

• Vaccination Recommendations
• "Preventing Congenital Toxoplasmosis" MMWR, March 31, 2000

Unit 16 Resources -- Government Reg's, Zoonoses, Food Safety

• Public Health Dispatch:   Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 and Campylobacter Among Attendees of the Washington County Fair -- New York, 1999.  Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, Sept. 17, 1999.
• Trichinellosis Outbreaks -- Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany, 1998-1999.  Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, June 18, 1999.
• Mass Treatment of Humans who Drank Unpasteurized Milk from Rabid Cows -- Massachusetts, 1996-1998.   Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, March 26, 1999.
• FDA/CVM Proposes to withdraw Poultry Fluoroquinolones Approval, CVM Update, Ocober 26, 2000.
• Scombroid Fish Poisoning --- Pennsylvania, 1998, MMWR, May 12, 2000.
• European Commission discussion on the current situation on BSE in the EU, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General.
• Update:  West Nile Virus Activity --- Eastern United States, 2000, MMWR Nov. 24, 2000.
• Public Health Response to a Potentially Rabid Bear Cub -- Iowa, 1999, MMWR October 29, 1999.
• Human Exposure to Brucella abortus Strain RB51 -- Kansas, 1997. MMWR March 13, 1998.
• Surveillance for Lyme Disease --- United States, 1992--1998, MMWR April 28, 2000.
• Human Ehrlichiosis -- Maryland, 1994, MMWR, September 20, 1996.

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