Advancements and Technologies in Pig and Poultry Bacterial Disease Control

Advancements and Technologies in Pig and Poultry Bacterial Disease Control provides the most up-to-date knowledge on the tools and technology used in the economics, prevention, monitoring, and control of the most important bacterial diseases in pigs and poultry. Written by international experts in veterinary medicine, veterinary science, agricultural economics, and environmental monitoring, this book provides state-of-the-art information regarding the application of technology to the prevention and control of bacterial disease. It examines how genomic sequencing addresses the development of disease biomarkers for faster and highly specific diagnosis. Next generation sequencing can determine the good and bad microflora, and the book explores how this knowledge can be used to develop prophylactic microfloras. It also covers high-precision monitoring and the use of smart pens for logging on-farm data. Advancements and Technologies in Pig and Poultry Bacterial Disease Control is a valuable resource for animal scientists and technologists, veterinarians, and researchers studying precision livestock farming. Students in veterinary and animal science courses will also find this useful for its coverage of diseases and monitoring tools. Reports on novel environmental monitoring tools and their use in determining disease threshold levels within herds and flocksHighlights crossover technologies from human to veterinary medicine, including the use of bioinformatics and genomics for disease preventionUses results from the EU FP7 Prohealth collaboration, the largest of its type ever awarded by the EUExamines how genomic analysis via next generation sequencing and microarray platforms can be exploited to develop novel biomarkers of bacterial disease in animals