"The definitive source on large animal care for both students and practitioners. Learn how to use a problem-oriented approach to effectively prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases in horses, cattle, sheep, and goats - based on clinical observation and laboratory and diagnostic testing - with this user-friendly text. New features include coverage of global conditions of importance, including those previously not discussed, that exist in Europe, Central and South America, Australia, and New Zealand. Coverage of emerging and re-emerging diseases includes new pathogen discovery. Assessment of vaccination status and susceptibility to infection discusses how antibody titers can predict protection for some pathogens. Extensively updated content clarifies the latest research and clinical findings on the West Nile Virus, therapeutic drug monitoring, muscle disorders, GI microbiota, the genetic basis for immune-mediated myositis in Quarter Horses, discoveries in antimicrobial drugs, anthelmintic, vaccines, and more!"--Taken from back cover.

Revised edition of: Large animal internal medicine / editor-in-chief, Bradford P. Smith, DVM, DACVIM. Fifth edition. [2015].