For some diseases there is a simple relationship between the infection, the animal and the treatment needed.
Examples include foul-of-the-foot, caused by a bacterial infection and treated with antibiotics, or ringworm, a mycotic infection which can be treated with antifungal drugs. However, many of the more common conditions seen on farms today are due to an interaction between the animal, its environment and a wide range of infectious organisms.
Probably the best example is calf pneumonia and this will be referred to again later in the chapter. Another example of the complexity of disease is milk fever. At calving the cow’s requirements for calcium may exceed her capabilities to mobilise the mineral, although she has ample reserves in her skeleton. The clinical symptoms are due to a deficiency of calcium in the blood. Milk fever is known as a metabolic disorder or a production disease.Both the farmer and his veterinary surgeon must thoroughly understand the mechanisms of disease if we are to reduce some of the enormous losses that are incurred, and I would urge the reader to spend a short while studying this first chapter before embarking on the main text. This chapter describes the nature of disease; some of the ways in which the animal protects itself; how infection, environment and immunity interact in a clinical situation; and finally it describes an approach to the treatment of an individual sick animal.
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