Veterinary Public Health is the sum of all contributions to the physical, mental and social well-being of humans through an understanding and application of veterinary science1. This discipline covers a vast array of concerns linking animal and human health, and is primarily concerned with reducing exposure to hazards brought about by interactions with animals, animal products and animal habita...

a 4-day-old holstein bull calf with considerable oedema of the belly (water belly) was referred to theveterinary teaching hospital of the school of veterinary medicine, shiraz university. the owner did notobserve any urination since birth. rupture of the urethra was suspected. perineal urethrotomy was performed. subsequently, catheterization of urethra revealed the obstruction near the external...

There is concern that antibiotic resistance can potentially be transferred from animals to humans through the food chain. The relationship between specific antibiotic resistant bacteria and the genes they carry remains to be described. Few details are known about the ecology of antibiotic resistant genes and bacteria in food production systems, or how antibiotic resistance genes in food animals...

Background: Antibiotic resistance is putting the commercial poultry production systems across globe at risk of losses due to failure treatments for animals and human health which has been associated with overuse misuse antibiotics in farming. One possible approach problem ensuring adequate knowledge, attitudes, practices on antimicrobial use by farmers are applied. Therefore, current study was ...

Antibiotic residue in food has been a growing public health problem due to the increasing global threats of antimicrobial resistance. Animal products including milk and meats might also contain residues antibiotics as administering animals treat infection is common practice. However, level presence are not frequently quantified Nepal. The objective this study estimate collected from dairy farms...

A guideline on the responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials in animal husbandry has been developed by the Ad hoc Group of experts on antimicrobial resistance, created by the Office International des Epizooties. The objectives of responsible use are to maintain antibiotic efficacy, to avoid the dissemination of resistant bacteria or resistance determinants and to avoid the exposure of human...

Tetracyclines are known antimicrobial compounds that present low cost and constitute one of the most widely used antibiotic groups, not only in human medicine for the treatment of infectious diseases but also in the stockbreeding sector as preventive and curative drugs or as an additive in animal feed 1 . The quality control of veterinary pharmaceuticals commercially available is an issue of re...

Most Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains are capable of infecting multiple hosts. In this report, an abdominal cavity abscess associated with the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium phage type DT2 is described in a dog. A dead male dog was admitted to the Department of Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Erciyes University for necropsy. Anorexia, weight loss and l...