Bovine Respiratory Disease, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

This issue of Veterinary Clinics:: Food Animal Practice, guest edited by Drs. Amelia Woolums and Douglas Step, focuses on Bovine Respiratory Disease. This is one of three issues each year sel‎ected by the series consulting editor, Dr. Robert A. Smith. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to:: BRD from the 20th century to now:: has anything changed?; Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida:: how are they changing in response to our efforts to control them?; Mycoplasma bovis:: what characteristics of this agent explain the disease that it causes?; Histophilus somni:: antigenic changes relevant to BRD; The microbiome and BRD; Viruses in Bovine Respiratory Disease in North America:: Knowledge Advances Using Genomic Testing; The Immunology of Bovine Respiratory Disease:: Recent Advancements; Host tolerance to infection with the bacteria that cause bovine respiratory disease; How does nutrition influence BRD?; How does housing influence BRD?; Diagnostic tests for BRD; Details to attend to when managing high risk cattle; BRD Vaccination:: MLV vs Killed? IN vs Parenteral? What is the evidence?; Timing of BRD Vaccination; Causes, significance, and impact of BRD treatment failure; The effect of market forces on BRD; and The future of BRD management in the era of precision agriculture, rapid DNA sequencing, and bioinformatics.