Advancements and Technologies in Pig and Poultry Bacterial Disease Control

Neil Foster is an professor at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, Scotland’s Rural College, Aberdeen, UK. He trained in immunology at the University of Leeds and has studied the immune response to bacterial pathogens and parasites for over 25 years, previously working at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford and The Institute for Animal Health. He has collaborated on several EU projects, has published numerous scientific studies on immunity in animals and humans, and currently researches molecular biomarker development in pigs and poultry at his lab. Ilias Kyriazakis is a professor of animal health and nutrition at Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. He is a veterinarian who specialises in the development of systems that enhance livestock performance whilst maintain their sustainability. He has worked with several species of animals, ranging from mice to cows, but he is better known for his work on the development of systems for pigs and poultry. Dr. Kyriazakis holds several fellowships and honorary positions at universities in Europe and North America, and has collaborated in multinational projects for several years. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of several textbooks and has acted as editor for several prestigious journals in the past. Paul Barrow is a professor of veterinary infectious diseases at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. He trained as a medical microbiologist at the University of Bristol and spent 25 years in government research at Houghton Poultry Research Station and the Institute for Animal Health as Head of Zoonoses Research. His main areas of expertise are enteric bacterial infections in poultry and pigs, and he has an international reputation in poultry salmonellosis. He had an honorary chair at the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has extensive collaborative contacts in China and Brazil. He has published more than 180 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 35 review articles, and 3 books.

• 1. The economic cost of bacterial infections2. Bacterial diseases in pigs and poultry: Occurrence, epidemiology and biosecurity measures3. Bacterial pathogenesis4. Immunity to bacteria5. Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial infections6. Environmental monitoring and prediction of diseases7. Bacterial diseases in pigs8. Bacterial diseases in chickens9. Antimicrobial resistance in the farm environment10. Monitoring the microbiota in chickens and pigs