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The Immunology of the Domestic Ruminants

Cattle, Sheep, and Goats

  • 1st Edition - March 12, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Ian R. Tizard
  • Language: English

The Immunology of Domestic Ruminants: Cattle, Sheep, and Goats provides a thorough examination of the immune systems of these animals. It explores their normal immune functi… Read more

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The Immunology of Domestic Ruminants: Cattle, Sheep, and Goats provides a thorough examination of the immune systems of these animals. It explores their normal immune functions and their roles in combating infectious and parasitic diseases, chronic inflammatory conditions, and immunodeficiency disorders. The book incorporates new data from the bovine genome project and highlights significant breed differences. Both innate and adaptive immunity are systematically covered, offering insights into basic and applied aspects of bovine immunology. In addition to detailing the immunology of major bacterial, viral, and parasitic diseases in cattle, the book reviews bovine vaccines and emphasizes the importance nutrition.

This essential resource caters to professionals in large animal research and practice, providing comprehensive information on the immunology of domestic cattle, sheep, and goats.

Key features

  • Provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the immune systems of domestic cattle as well as sheep and goats
  • Links recent basic science to important clinical issues
  • Includes current information on vaccines and disease resistance in ruminants
  • Discusses the relationship between nutrition and the ruminant immune system

Readership

Veterinarians in large animal research and practice

Table of contents

1. The evolution and domestication of the ruminants

2. Bovine ontogeny, reproduction, and lactation

3. Innate immunity in cattle and other ruminants

4. The ruminant sickness response

5. Bovine leukocytes and erythrocytes

6. Bovine cytokines and chemokines

7. Bovine antigen processing cells: dendritic cells and macrophages

8. The bovine lymphoid system

9. BoLA: The bovine Major Histocompatibility Complex

10. Bovine innate lymphoid cells

11. Ruminant humoral immunity

12. Ruminant T cell responses

13. Immunity on ruminant body surfaces

14. The rumen and the intestinal microbiota

15. Immunity in the mammary gland

16. Bovine vaccines

17. Selected bovine bacterial diseases

18. Selected bovine viral diseases

19. Immunity to selected bovine parasites

20. Ruminant anaphylaxis and allergic diseases

21. Ruminant hypersensitivity diseases

22. Ruminant immunodeficiency diseases

23. Nutrition and the ruminant immune system

24. Aspects of immunity in the sheep

25. Aspects of immunity in the goat

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 9, 2025
  • Language: English

About the author

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Ian R. Tizard

Ian R. Tizard, BVMS, BSc, PhD, DSc (Hons), DACVM, is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologists and a University Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Immunology, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, The Texas Veterinary Medical Center at Texas A &M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA. Dr. Tizard earned his Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1965. He then completed a Bachelor of Science in Pathology and a PhD in Immunology. After completing his studies, Dr. Tizard became a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Guelph, where he remained as a professor until 1982 when he moved to TAMU. Dr. Tizard wrote the first standardized textbook on Veterinary Immunology in 1977. This text, now in its 11th edition, is used worldwide, and has played a major role in establishing Immunology among the key disciplines.

Affiliations and expertise
University Distinguished Professor of Immunology Emeritus, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA

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