Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Newton, L. G. (Leslie Gilbert), 1916-1995.

Title Clearing a continent : the eradication of bovine pleuropneumonia from Australia / L.G. Newton and R. Norris.

Publication Info. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., [2000]
©2000

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SCARM report ; 74
SCARM report ; no. 74.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor's addendum; Chapter 1 -- An overview of pleuropneumonia in Australia; Chapter 2 -- Pleuropneumonia -- the disease; Chapter 3 -- Historical background to the disease, disease theories and inoculation; Claapter 4 -- The first outbreak in Australia (1858-1860); Chapter 5 -- Pleuro on the rampage (1860-1900); Chapter 6 -- The Australian scene; Chapter 7 -- Learning to live with the disease (1860-1900); Chapter 8 -- Beginning the fight for control (1901-1930); Chapter 9 -- Research -- the key to lurther progress.
Summary Pleuropneumonia has had a long history in Australia. Clearing a Continent: The Eradication of Bovine Pleuropneumonia from Australia is an authoritative monograph on the history, spread, and final eradication of the disease. Based on an enormous amount of research and archive material, the text details the background of the first outbreak, the spread through the affected states, the battle for control, as well as the persistence of the disease in northern areas long after it had been brought under control in the south. There is also vital information on vaccination. This work is an important re.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia -- Australia.
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.
Australia.
Cattle -- Diseases -- Australia -- Prevention.
Cattle -- Diseases.
Cattle -- Vaccination -- Australia.
Cattle -- Vaccination.
Veterinary public health -- Australia.
Veterinary public health.
Veterinary epidemiology -- Australia.
Veterinary epidemiology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Norris, Ronald, 1932-
Added Title Eradication of bovine pleuropneumonia from Australia
Other Form: Print version: Newton, L.G. (Leslie Gilbert), 1916-1995. Clearing a continent. Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., ©2000 0643065628 (OCoLC)50272719
ISBN 0643065628 (electronic book)
9780643065628 (electronic book)
9780643100794 (electronic book)
0643100792 (electronic book)