Prevention and Control of Reproductive Diseases in Farm Animals

Dear Colleagues,

Reproductive inefficiency and reproductive tract disease remain leading causes of economic loss and involuntary culling in modern livestock systems. As herds become larger and animals are selected for productivity and longevity, the interactions between infection, metabolic stress, heat stress, and management factors make subfertility difficult to completely avoid.

This Special Issue will synthesize evidence and present new data on prevention, early detection, and control of reproductive diseases in farm animals, emphasizing welfare-oriented and economically viable interventions at both individual-animal and herd levels.

We welcome studies using innovative diagnostics and monitoring, including reproductive ultrasonography, cytology, microbiome and omics biomarkers, point-of-care assays, and precision livestock farming tools, as well as work on antimicrobial stewardship, vaccination, immunomodulation, and non-antibiotic therapies.

We are soliciting original research, systematic reviews, and short communications addressing infectious and non-infectious causes of infertility and subfertility (e.g., metritis/endometritis, venereal pathogens, postpartum disorders, metabolic disease–fertility links), epidemiology and risk modeling, biosecurity, and decision-support strategies for practitioners and producers.

Dr. Łukasz Zdrojkowski
Dr. Dawid Tobolski
Guest Editors

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