Veterinary Vaccines Concepts and Application

Vaccination is one of the most important and cost effective methods available for preventing infectious diseases of man and animals. No real alternative exists for viral diseases of animals since there are no antiviral drugs suitable for wide spread application. No other method in human or veterinary medicine has had such impact in reducing morbidity and mortality and increasing the overall well being of humans and animals. But the animals and humans continued to suffer from infectious diseases in spite of this success. Indeed, WHO reports that 8 out of 10 major causes of death in humans are due to infections agents. Vaccinology is one of the most important subject not only in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry but also in Medical sciences. This book ‘Veterinary Vaccines : Concepts and Applications’ is written based on the most relevant and latest informations on conventional vaccines of important viral and bacterial diseases of animals so that everybody can read and understand it quickly, easily and properly. This book is useful for scientists, teachers, students, officers, diagnosticians, laboratory technicians and medical personnel associated directly or indirectly with research, teaching, training, extension, diagnosis, epidemiology and control of diseases of bacterial and viral origin. All the important animal diseases of viral and bacterial origin have been dealt with incorporating latest, useful and elaborate informations so that end users will be benefited to a large extent in their day to day life. Further, informations have also been provided on latest developments in vaccinology arena viz., DNA vaccine, recombinant vaccine, marker vaccine, synthetic peptide vaccine and plant based vaccine. This book is highly informative to the Life Sciences students and other enthusiastic readers appearing in the various competitive examinations such as JRF, SRF, IAS, CSIR, NET, ARS, ICAR, IFS, IPS, Lectureship etc. Further, it will be extremely useful to all the persons who are directly or indirectly involved in the prevention and control of diseases of animal origin using the immunoprophylactic measures and their welfare. Finally, all can enrich their knowledge on any aspects of vaccinology from the book and can clarify any doubts and concepts very easily and confidently.