VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN WILD ANIMALS

• Infectious diseases in wild animals have to be understood well by the veterinarians. These are the significant causal agents for the ongoing morbidity and mortality among various captive and free ranging wild animal species, in various regions of this world.
• Proper identification of various agents associated with this should be known and their pathogenic potentials for other animals or for man have to be given significance always.
• PCR plays a major part in effecting the proper diagnosis of the various infectious agents in general. However, conventional techniques also assume significance for the proper understanding of these diseases affecting wild fauna.
• Significant infectious diseases affecting should be known.