Pig Diseases and Management (Current Trends in Life Science Vol. 40)
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Bacterial Diseases: 1. Actinobacillosis in pigs. 2. Anthrax in pigs. 3. Colibacillosis in Pigs. 4. Non progressive Atropic Rhinitis (NPAR) in pigs. 5. Salmonellosis in pigs. 6. Streptococcal infections in pigs. 7. Swine brucellosis. 8. Swine Erysipelas. 9. Swine leptospirosis. Viral Diseases: 10. Bovine viral diarrhoea infection in pigs. 11. Classical swine fever. 12. Foot-and-mouth disease in pigs. 13. Japanese encephalitis. 14. Nipah virus infection in pigs. 15. Porcine circovirus. 16. Porcine epidemic diarrhoea. 17. Porcine parvovirus. 18. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome. 19. Porcine rotaviral diarrhoea. 20. Pseudorabies. 21. Swine influenza. 22. Swine pox. 23. Teschen disease (Teschovirus encephalomyelitis). 24. Torque teno sus virous in pigs. 25. Transmissible gastroenteritis in pigs. Parasitic Diseases. 26. Important parasitic diseases of Pigs and their management. Miscellaneous: 27. Necropsy procedures in pig.
India has 9.06 millions of Pigs and more than 40% of them are in north eastern India as per 20th Livestock census. There is a decline of 1.23 million of pigs compared to previous census. Pigs are mainly reared by economically disadvantaged people in the society. This reduction in pig population may be attributed to diseases affecting pigs and in turn lack of knowledge about their management. Delay in management of diseases affecting pigs causes huge economic losses. We do not find a comprehensive information on pig diseases and their management in Indian perspective at one place in one book. Many Researchers, Academicians, Veterinary officers and students conversed that there should be a book on Pig diseases and their management referring to the scenario present in India and also to be written by academicians, researchers working on different diseases of Pigs and their management in India. This is how a thought process flowed into selecting a topic on Pig diseases and their management and experts were selected to scribe on topics of bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases of pigs and their management.
