Small Ruminant : Emerging Diseases, Containment Under WTO Regime

Contents: Preface. 1. Import and export regulatory measures in context of small ruminant diseases/Mohinder S. Oberoi. 2. Bio-safety, bio-security, bio-containment and quality standards for diagnostics and vaccines under W.T.O. regime/Lal Krishna. 3. Safety assurance of exported Indian meat meeting W.T.O. guidelines/S.K. Ranjhan. 4. Harmonization of regulatory requirements for veterinary biologicals and diagnostics/J.M. Kataria, S.K. Gupta and Rahul S. 5. National and international approaches on prevention and control of transboundary diseases and their global economic impact/M.P. Yadav and R.K. Singh. 6. Quality of meat and their products in relation to consumer safety/Nagendra Sharma, V. Pathak and A.K. Biswas. 7. Development and quality control of herbal veterinary formulations for effective health management in India/V.S. Vihan and Ashok Kumar. 8. Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and strategies for its containment in WTO regime/S.C. Dubey and D. Mondal. 9. Control of Capri Pox virus infections in India/D.D. Kulkarni. 10. Situation of bluetongue in India and strategies for its prevention and control/A.B. Pandey. 11. Foot and mouth disease control strategies for livestock development in India/S.N. Singh. 12. Emerging and reemerging Caprine and Ovine diseases in India/S. Nandi and R.S. Chauhan. 13. Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis infection in small ruminants in India - diagnosis and control measures/S.N. Singh. 14. Caprine and ovine abortions of infectious nature - an overview/S.V.S. Malik, Samir Das and V.M. Vaidya. 15. Mycoplasma infections in goat and sheep in Indian perspective/Nem Singh, V.P. Singh and Rajneesh Rana. 16. Infectious agents transmitted through semen and embryo/K.P. Aggarwal. 17. Status of mycotic diseases of small ruminants and its zoonotic importance/Mahendra Pal. 18. Alternative methods of control of gastrointestinal nematodosis is small ruminants/D. Singh and C.P. Swarnkar. 19. Protozoan diseases of small ruminants/D.K. Sharma. 20. Molecular approaches for the diagnosis of infectious diseases/V.K. Gupta. 21. Biotechnology in the diagnosis of small ruminant diseases/G. Butchaiah and P.X. Antony. 22. Recent advances in bacterial and viral vaccines/G.K. Sharma. 23. Animal health information system through monitoring, surveillance and forecasting of small ruminant diseases/K. Prabhudas. 24. Genetic resistance to important small ruminant diseases/P.K. Rout and R. Roy. 25. Alternative therapies for the treatment of animal diseases in India/Ashok Kumar and V.S. Vihan. 26. Nutritional disorders associated with macro and micro elements in goats/N.P. Singh, V.S. Vihan and Ashok Kumar. Index.

"Goats and sheep are the two important livestock species in the livestock production systems and are undergoing a phenomenal change during last few years. Its economic importance has further increased and likely to zoon in coming years. They support a large population of the rural landless and marginal farmers and have an important role to play in any programme aimed to alleviate rural poverty and livelihood security particularly in arid, semiarid and hilly regions of the country. Their contribution to the economy constituted about 5.40% of the GNP to the agriculture sector. The incidence of diseases and parasitic infestations in small ruminants is one of the major constraints in the development of this enterprise and is reported to cause huge loss to the poor goat keepers and consequently to the Indian economy. Diseases result into very high mortality which ranges from 5 to 25%. In addition, diseases also cause morbidity losses in terms of low productivity of animals. There are heavy losses of good germ plasm due to diseases. Many exotic and emerging diseases are now being introduced in India from other countries for which adequate information for their containment is not fully known. Some of the merging disease like PPR, Sheep and goat Pox and Blue tongue are causing substantial losses. Due to the prevalence of some diseases, the SPS regulation of many OECD countries denies entry of Indian livestock products in WTO regime. The editors in the present book have compiled the available information contributed by learned experts in their field. The book covers the topics like bio-security and SPS measures, import and export regulatory measures, international regulations for trade of goat meat and their products, bio-containment and quality standards for diagnostics and vaccines, national and international approaches on prevention and control of transboundary diseases, harmonization of regulatory requirements for veterinary biologicals and diagnostics, advances in bacterial and viral vaccines, molecular approaches for the diagnosis of infectious diseases, control of gastro-intestinal infection, coccidiosis and mycotic diseases, quality control of meat and their products in relation to consumer safety, nutritional diseases associated with macro and micro nutrients, genetics of disease resistance, infectious agents transmitted through semen and embryo, quality control of herbal drugs for organic husbandry and containments of important emerging and endemic diseases such as PPR, Johne's disease, capri pox, blue tongue etc. The detailed account of these topics is presented in the book." (jacket)