Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult Avian PDF fills a unique niche by providing comprehensive information on common topics in avian medicine in a highly organized and efficient manner, allowing busy practitioners and students to quickly find much needed information. A companion website provides algorithms, procedure guides, and client education handouts, which can be downloaded, edited, and given to clients.
Written by the leading experts in the field, this newly revised Second Edition offers close to 200 identically formatted topics on avian conditions, with updated and expanded information on non-infectious disease topics like neoplasia, beak malocclusion, diseases of the bursa, nails, and tongue, among others, and infectious disease topics such as herpesviruses, helminthiasis, arboviruses and backyard poultry infectious diseases. This latest edition has been expanded by more than 50% and numerous subjects have been restructured and expanded. Other topics covered in Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Avian include:
Viral Diseases including circovirus, bornavirus, avian influenza, west nile virus, polyomavirus, poxvirus, and herpesviruses
Bacterial Diseases including colibacillosis, campylobacteriosis, chlamydiosis, pasteurellosis, clostridiosis, salmonellosis, and mycoplasmosis
Fungal Diseases including aspergillosis, candidiasis, and macrorhabdosis
Parasites including flagellates, coccidia, myiasis, ectoparasites, helminths, and toxicosis including iatrogenic, ingested, airborne, algal biotoxins, heavy metals, and pesticides
Orthopedic and traumatic conditions such as beak injuries, neurologic trauma, fractures, luxations, joint diseases and wounds, with neoplasia by organ system
Critical Care including hypotension, respiratory distress, seizures, hemorrhage, pain, and internal medicine including cardiac disease, cloacal diseases, ocular diseases, diabetes insipidus, atherosclerosis and thyroid diseases
Table of Contents
General Topics and Diseases
Adenoviruses
Adrenal Gland Diseases
Aggression (see Problem Behaviors: Aggression, Biting, and Screaming)
Air Sac Mites
Air Sac Rupture
Airborne Toxicosis (see Toxicosis: Airborne)
Algal Biotoxins
Amyloidosis
Anemia
Angel Wing
Angular Limb Deformity (Splay Leg)
Anorexia
Infectious and Viral Diseases
Arboviruses (see Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis, Usutu Virus, West Nile Virus)
By Jennifer E. Graham
