Ruminants like bovines, sheep and goats are very important in animal production for means of meat, milk, wool, and their derivatives. Diseases that affect the feet can cause loses in productive and reproductive traits and also in animal welfare. A variety of pathogens can be associated with foot diseases in different animal species and some infectious pathologies still do not have a well recognize etiological agent. Viruses, bacteria, and parasites, can be responsible for affections alone or combined. Some of these pathogens have a wide variety of hosts and are world widespread.
Lameness in ruminant production systems are a big health issue. The improvement on animal welfare determines better productive and reproductive outcomes. To reach this improvement, more knowledge is needed to find and understand different etiological agents, clinical presentation of the illness, performing a better treatment and developing new control and eradication programs.
This issue called “Infectious agents in ruminant feet: from the microbe to the disease” will try to address aspects from research in clinical disease to management and control in flocks or herds. Papers can deal on mechanisms of infection, pathogen biology, virulence and persistence, and/or host responses to infection. For this, papers can contain improvements in serological, bacterial, molecular and genomic diagnosis, new etiological agents, treatments that take care in animals, humans and environment, and new systems of control and eradication. Articles with high quality data on the subjects described, as well as clinical and practical aspects on field and reviews are welcome. This section does not accept papers on case studies nor solely-diagnostic studies.
Keywords:
Microbiome, pathology, Ruminants, Viruses, bacteria, parasites
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Ruminants like bovines, sheep and goats are very important in animal production for means of meat, milk, wool, and their derivatives. Diseases that affect the feet can cause loses in productive and reproductive traits and also in animal welfare. A variety of pathogens can be associated with foot diseases in different animal species and some infectious pathologies still do not have a well recognize etiological agent. Viruses, bacteria, and parasites, can be responsible for affections alone or combined. Some of these pathogens have a wide variety of hosts and are world widespread.
Lameness in ruminant production systems are a big health issue. The improvement on animal welfare determines better productive and reproductive outcomes. To reach this improvement, more knowledge is needed to find and understand different etiological agents, clinical presentation of the illness, performing a better treatment and developing new control and eradication programs.
This issue called “Infectious agents in ruminant feet: from the microbe to the disease” will try to address aspects from research in clinical disease to management and control in flocks or herds. Papers can deal on mechanisms of infection, pathogen biology, virulence and persistence, and/or host responses to infection. For this, papers can contain improvements in serological, bacterial, molecular and genomic diagnosis, new etiological agents, treatments that take care in animals, humans and environment, and new systems of control and eradication. Articles with high quality data on the subjects described, as well as clinical and practical aspects on field and reviews are welcome. This section does not accept papers on case studies nor solely-diagnostic studies.
Keywords:
Microbiome, pathology, Ruminants, Viruses, bacteria, parasites
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.