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Lumpy Skin Disease

  • First book entirely dedicated to Lumpy Skin Disease
  • Provides in-depth insights into epidemiology and geographic distribution of cattle pox virus
  • Essential guide for researchers, students and field veterinarians in LSD affected regions

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction to Lumpy Skin Disease

    • Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen
    Pages 1-2
  3. General Description of Lumpy Skin Disease

    • Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen
    Pages 3-5
  4. Economic Impact of Lumpy Skin Disease

    • Eyal Klement
    Pages 7-9
  5. Geographic Distribution of Lumpy Skin Disease

    • Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen
    Pages 11-13
  6. Current Legislation and Trade Recommendations

    • Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen
    Pages 15-17
  7. Lumpy Skin Disease Virus

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Taxonomy

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 21-23
    3. Morphology

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 25-27
    4. Genome

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 29-35
    5. Replication in a Host

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 37-40
    6. Propagation of the Virus In Vitro

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 41-44
    7. Persistence and Stability of the Virus

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 45-46
    8. Immunity

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 47-51
    9. Epidemiology and Transmission

      • Eyal Klement
      Pages 53-62
  8. Early Detection of Lumpy Skin Disease, Diagnostic Tools and Treatment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Clinical Signs

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 65-69
    3. Sample Collection and Transport

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 71-72
    4. Diagnostic Tools

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 73-79
    5. Treatment of Lumpy Skin Disease

      • Shawn Babiuk
      Pages 81-81

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive but concise overview on the economically important emerging cattle pox virus derived Lumpy Skin Disease, including the characteristics of causative agent, description of clinical signs in cattle, pathology and histopathology, immunity, geographical distribution, epidemiology and transmission pathways, control and eradication of the disease. In addition the recent developments in vaccination, mathematical modeling and risk assessment are discussed. Lumpy Skin Disease currently spreads aggressively across the Middle and Near East. The first incursion to the European Union territory occurred in Greece in autumn 2015.  
The book targets clinicians and field veterinarians in Lumpy Skin Disease affected regions, veterinary authorities as well as advanced students in veterinary medicine and virology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Aldershot, United Kingdom

    Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen

  • Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg, Canada

    Shawn Babiuk

  • Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel

    Eyal Klement

About the authors

Dr. Eeva Tuppurainen is an independent veterinary expert for lumpy skin disease (LSD), sheeppox (SPP) and goatpox (GTP). For more than a decade, she headed a UK based the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) reference laboratory for LSD, SPP and GTP. Her responsibilities included provision of diagnostic services, technical assistance and training on capripoxviruses (CaPV) for the OIE Member States. In this role, she was responsible for implementing various research projects on the CaPV field.

During the recent LSD outbreaks in Europe and the northern Caucasus, she has served as a team leader for several European Union (EU) Community Veterinary Emergency Team (CVET) missions, followed by a series of sustained technical assistance missions to the LSD affected and at-risk Balkan countries under the framework of the EU Better Training Safer Food-initiative. In early 2017 she contributed as a short term external consultant for FAO LSD projects, providing disease expertise in designing effective disease control and eradication measures, preparing training courses, awareness material, LSD Field Manual and a contingency plan template.  Currently, she is engaged as a Senior Animal Health Expert, in an EU funded project in the northern part of Cyprus. 

Dr. Shawn Babiuk received a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Saskatchewan in 1997 and a Doctorate in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Saskatchewan in 2003. He completed postdoctoral training in Saskatoon on genomics with Pyxis Genomics Canada and on vaccine development at Vaccine & Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan. In 2005, he moved to the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg as a research scientist for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. In 2006, he became an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Immunology at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Babiuk’s research is focused on foreign animal disease. His research interests consist of understanding the pathogenesis as well as developing diagnostics and vaccines for several foreign animal diseases such as capripox, peste des petits ruminants, African swine fever as well as newly emerging zoonotic diseases such as influenza and Rift Valley fever.

Dr. Eyal Klement is an associate professor of veterinary epidemiology in the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in the Hebrew Universtiy. He graduated DVM studies in the Hebrew University and completed a Master degree in epidemiology at the Tel-Aviv University in Israel. His main research interest is aimed at the epidemiology of infectious diseases in animals and humans and vaccine evaluation. He is the head founder of the Veterinary Master of Public Health program at the Hebrew University.  Eyal is a consultant of EFSA and the EUFMD on several topics such as the risk of vector-borne disease introduction to Europe, Lumpy skin disease and evaluation of FMD vaccine effectiveness. He is also an associate editor of Frontiers in Veterinary Science, section Veterinary Epidemiology, and Economics. 




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lumpy Skin Disease

  • Authors: Eeva S. M. Tuppurainen, Shawn Babiuk, Eyal Klement

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92411-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92410-6Published: 25 July 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06427-3Published: 25 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92411-3Published: 03 July 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 109

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Medical Microbiology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Virology

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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