Full Description
The importance of fungal infections in both human and animals has increased over the last few decades. This book presents an overview of the different categories of fungal infections that can be encountered in animals (including lower vertebrates) originating from environmental sources with or without transmission to humans.
In addition, the endemic infections with indirect transmission from the environment, the zoophilic fungal pathogens with near-direct transmission, the zoonotic fungi that can be directly transmitted from animals to humans, mycotoxicoses and antifungal resistance in animals will also be discussed. This book includes case studies and reviews the current state of knowledge on the mechanism of fungal attraction, recognition, infection, extracellular hydrolytic enzymes and pathogenesis of nematophagous fungi.
The book also covers diagnostics, fungal formulations, as well as prevention methods. It discusses strategies to access the fungal pathogen groups, metagenomic analyses, genomics, secretomics, metabolomics, proteomics and transcriptomics. In addition, pathogen description, understanding, distribution and recent research results are provided.
Contents
Preface.- Chapter 1. Fungal Diseases of Bovines.- Chapter 2. Mycotoxins and their Consequences in Livestock.- Chapter 3. Candidiasis and Dermatophytosis: Infections and Their Prevention.- Chapter 4. Application of System biology approaches for host-fungal interaction in animals.- Chapter 5. Ovine Fungal Diseases.- Chapter 6. Histopathologic Diagnosis of Fungal Infections of lab animals.- Chapter 7. Current perspective of dermatophytosis in animals.- Chapter 8. Fungal Diseases and Therapy in Dogs.- Chapter 9. Improving the animal immunity to prevent fungal infections from folk to advanced science.- Chapter 10. Antifungal resistance in animal medicine: current state and future challenges.- Index.
