Animal-Origin Viral Zoonoses

by Yashpal Singh Malik (Editor), Raj Kumar Singh (Editor), Kuldeep Dhama (Editor)

Overview

This book is the second volume in the series Livesk Diseases and Management, and reviews the importance and implications of animal origin viral zoonoses. It also highlights the specific etiology and epidemiology of these viral infections and discusses their various biological and mechanical transmission mechanisms. Further, the book reviews various measures for controlling viral zoonoses and examines novel therapeutic and prophylactic strategies.

Discussing recent studies on the pathogenesis and host immune response to these infections, it underscores the importance of using vaccines against these viral diseases to reduce the risk of them being transmitted to humans.
Lastly, it describes in detail the challenges posed by these viral infections and our readiness to face them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811526503
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	09/24/2020
Series:	Livestock Diseases and Management
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Yashpal Singh Malik is an “ICAR National Fellow” at the ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, India, where he is working on viral disease epidemiology, virus-host interactions, microbial biodiversity, and the characterization and diagnosis of pathogens. He pursued advanced studies in molecular virology at the University of Minnesota, USA; University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and Wuhan Institute of Virology, Wuhan, China. He is the recipient of several prestigious national, state and academy awards and honors, including the ICAR-Jawaharlal Nehru Award. He has authored 5 books, 25 book chapters, and over 200 research and review articles. Dr. Malik is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immunology Immunopathology and has also edited special issues of the Springer journal VirusDisease, Bentham’s The Open Virology Journal, and the Journal of Current Drug Metabolism.

Dr. RajKumar Singh is currently Director-cum-Vice-Chancellor of the ICAR-IndianVeterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, India. He is a respected scientist specializing in veterinary microbiology, biotechnology, molecular epidemiology, diagnostics and vaccinology. Dr. Singh has served as Head of the Division of Virology, Station-In-Charge at the IVRI, Mukteswar Campus, Uttarakhand and later as Director of the NRC on Equines and VTCC, Hisar. He holds 10 national patents (2 granted & 8 filed), and has developed 8 live attenuated vaccines/vaccine candidates and 26 diagnostic tests/assays/kits. He has authored 2 books, 23 book chapters and over 200 research papers. He has received several awards, including the prestigious ICAR Rafi Ahmad Kidwai Award and Team Research Award, the DBT Tata Innovation Fellowship Award, and the Agriculture Research Leadership Award. He was also awarded an FAO Fellowship at the University of California Davis, USA. He is currently President of the ISVIB, and is a fellow or life member of various professional societies.

Dr. Kuldeep Dhama, M.V.Sc., Ph.D. (Gold Medalist) is working as Principal Scientist in Division of Pathology at ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has research and teaching experience of more than 25 years in the field of microbiology, immunology, virology, public health, medicine, and biomedicine. He has developed several diagnostics, vaccines, and immunomodulatory modules to counter infectious diseases of animals and poultry. He has to his credit more than 600 publications, 6 books, and 65 book chapters. Dr. Dhama has been recognized as an extremely productive researcher in the “Nature” journal publication. He is honored with 50 Best Paper Awards and other recognitions. He is NAAS (National Academy of Agricultural Science, India) Associate, worked as Nodal Officer- WTO, and Member- Wildlife Health Specialist Group (IUCN). He is actively serving as Editor-in-Chief, Co-EIC, Editor and Member, Editorial board of more than 20 scientific journals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Rabies virus.- Chapter 2. Monkeypox virus.- Chapter 3. Nipah virus.- Chapter 4. Animal Caliciviruses.- Chapter 5. Avian Influenza.- Chapter 6. Swine Influenza virus.- Chapter 7. Buffalopox virus.- Chapter 8. Animal Rotavirus.- Chapter 9. Capripoxvirus and Orf virus.- Chapter 10. Hepatitis E viruses.- Chapter 11. MERS-CoV.- Chapter 12. Japanese encephalitis virus.- Chapter 13. Picobirnavirus.- Chapter 14. Drivers of Emerging Viral Zoonoses.- Chapter 15. Viral zoonoses: wildlife perspectives.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: William E Sander, DVM, MPH, BA (University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine)
Description: This book is part of a larger Livestock Diseases and Management series and seeks to highlight viral zoonoses with particular implications in livestock and public health. The book tackles this by covering 13 different viruses or virus families as well as two chapters on emerging viruses and wildlife reservoirs. The book attempts to be inclusive of various disease concerns and the chapters are each clearly laid out. The book is a manageable length for a reference and tries to bring in various contributors throughout the chapters.
Purpose: The authors desire to present an in-depth volume on crucial zoonotic animal viruses with high-quality contributions from experts while still being conversant. The primary purpose is to highlight the consequence of viral zoonotic diseases to public and livestock health. These objectives are worth including in a series about livestock diseases and management, but, overall, the book falls short of those objectives. The book fails to sufficiently present the effects of these diseases on livestock as well as how veterinarians or public health practitioners can be knowledgeable and better prepared to identify or prevent these diseases.
Audience: The authors are targeting a wide audience from students to faculty to veterinary professionals to clinicians to animal producers to public health experts. However, the book is often bogged down in heavy jargon and technical information particularly around diagnostics and immunology without sufficient guidance or clarity for the broad audience targeted. The book also focuses primarily on India, limiting the audience for some diseases. All three authors have a strong virology background and all currently work at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Izzatnagar, which is a well-known Indian institute.
Features: This book tries to cover livestock relevant zoonotic viral diseases, which is no small area to comprehensively cover. The authors chose to pick out 13 viruses or virus families but are not consistent with whether they look at an entire family or a specific virus, which provides some inconsistency in how each chapter is covered. I appreciate the inclusion of two chapters on the trends of emerging viral diseases and the role wildlife plays, but they would be better at the beginning of the book to set the stage for specific diseases. A consistent approach for each virus chapter that includes history, clinical features, diagnostics, treatment, and prevention would have been useful to standardize the book for reference and set expectations. The writing became difficult to follow in sections due to the improper grammar, punctuation, and flow in English of the book. Understanding and meaning were a challenge at times because of the writing. Inconsistencies with content were also frequent. An example is in the rabies chapter where death was said to occur within 10 days of clinical signs, while another paragraph later said it occurs within two to 14 days. Some information was incorrect, like the statement that herbivores cannot transmit rabies or that dog-transmitted rabies is the biggest cause of human rabies exposures in Latin America. Finally, several chapters focus very little on livestock risks, disease, or prevention contrary to the primary thrust of this book.
Assessment: This type of book focused on viral zoonoses is an important contribution, but the authors fell short on delivering a comprehensive, useful, and broadly applicable reference book for a wide audience. With the omissions mentioned and a lack of clarity in writing and consistency, this book does not meet the standards to be widely used especially outside of the Indian subcontinent. Books like Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses: Biology, Clinical Practice, and Public Health Control, 2nd edition, Palmer et al. (Oxford University Press, 2011) provide a more comprehensive inclusion of viral zoonoses and other zoonoses.

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