Biosecurity for Livestock Diseases in Europe (eBook)

Transmission, Risk Factors, and Modelling

Alistair Antonopoulos, Evelien Biebaut, Jeroen Dewulf, Johannes Charlier (Autoren)

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2025
263 Seiten
CAB INTERNATIONAL (Verlag)
978-1-80062-983-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Taking an evidence-based, cost-effective approach, this book reviews our understanding of biosecurity throughout the livestock production chain and across poultry, swine, cattle and small ruminants. It covers the prevalence, risk factors, transmission routes and modelling, and control measures for a range of endemic and epidemic diseases.

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Biosecurity practices can help prevent the introduction and spread of disease, promoting better animal health and welfare, human health, food safety, and the economic benefits of livestock production. Stemming from a joint initiative between the Biosecure project which brought together 17 partners across 12 European countries, and DISCONTOOLS, the research gap database in animal health, this book provides valuable background information which can help to better understand and prioritize biosecurity measures.
Driven by an evidence-based and cost-effective approach to biosecurity, it is divided into two sections covering endemic diseases typically present within most countries, and epidemic diseases with the potential for large scale outbreaks. Through a series of disease entries, it:

- introduces the diseases of most relevance for the European context;
- reviews our current understanding of biosecurity throughout the livestock production chain, and across the principal terrestrial animal species farmed within Europe: poultry, swine, cattle, and small ruminants;
- covers the prevalence, risk factors, transmission routes, current control measures and biosecurity, and data for transmission modelling for each disease.

By summarizing current knowledge on a range of diseases, this book forms both a useful resource for researchers and professionals in animal disease prevention, and a starting off point for identifying information gaps and requirements for future research.

Autor

Alistair Antonopoulos (Author)
Alistair Antonopoulos is a scientific project manager working at Kreavet. He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a PhD in Veterinary Medicine. He previously developed novel molecular diagnostics for anthelmintic resistance and a next-generation sequencing assay to aid in the sustainability of livestock production. Alistair has been involved in multiple multidisciplinary and international projects. In Kreavet, he is contributing to the conduct and development of multi-actor Horizon EU funded projects such as BIOSECURE, focused on improving biosecurity implementation within Europe for sustainable livestock production. As part of the BIOSECURE consortium, Alistair has been involved in the creation of a database of modelling parameters for livestock disease transmission, in addition to stakeholder disease prioritisation exercises at the EU and participating country level.

Evelien Biebaut (Author)
Evelien Biebaut is a post-doctoral researcher at the Veterinary Epidemiology Unit of Ghent University, currently serving as scientific manager for the Horizon Europe BIOSECURE project. She earned her PhD from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine also at Ghent University, where her research focused on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae infections in pigs, with a particular emphasis on transmission dynamics and immune responses. Passionate about advancing animal health and welfare, Evelien is committed to improving livestock management practices for the benefit of both animals and humans.

Jeroen Dewulf (Author)
Jeroen Dewulf serves as a full professor in Veterinary Epidemiology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Ghent University. His primary research interests include antimicrobial use and resistance in animals, as well as the prevention of epidemic and endemic diseases with an emphasis on biosecurity. He is passionate about turning data in to veterinary expertise and policy for the benefit of animal and human health. Jeroen Dewulf is a prolific author with (co-)authorship of over 400 A1 publications in the field. Recently, he co-founded the spin-off company Biocheck.Gent and coordinates the EU research consortium BIOSECURE, which focuses on cutting-edge research in biosecurity in terrestrial animal production.

Johannes Charlier (Author)
Johannes is a veterinary scientist and regularly invited speaker at international workshops or conferences. After a career of 13 years as veterinary parasitologist at Ghent University, and 2 years as scientific director in Avia-GIS, he founded the research agency Kreavet in 2017. He described his view on sustainable parasite and animal health management in a series of recognized review and opinion papers. The principles of those papers are a guideline for the development and strategies of Kreavet. Johannes is a EBVS® European Veterinary Specialist in Parasitology and received several scientific awards for his contributions to veterinary parasitology and epidemiology. He is (technical) coordinator of European funded projects including the secretariat of the STAR-IDAZ IRC, SPARC and DISCONTOOLS. He sits in the board of various scientific organisations and periodically acts as (guest-)editor for scientific journals.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2025
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Klinische Fächer
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: African swine fever • animal disease • avian infectious bronchitis • avian influenza • biosecurity • Bluetongue • Brucellosis • Cattle Disease • Classical swine fever • Disease modelling • Disease Transmission • Foot and mouth disease • goat disease • liver fluke • Livestock disease • livestock disease in Europe • Lumpy skin disease • Nematodes • Peste des petits ruminants • Pig disease • porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus • Poultry disease • Rift Valley Fever • ruminant disease • sheep and goat pox • sheep disease • swine vesicular disease • veterinary biosecurity
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-983-4 / 1800629834
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-983-7 / 9781800629837