Veterinary Clinical Research: Veterinary Microbiology and Companion Animal Health
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 57119
Special Issue Editors
2. University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Interests: animal microbiome analyses – fecal, oral, other; microbiome restoration strategies; microbial ecology
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Interests: host-microbe interactions; comparative medicine; precision regenerative medicine; one health
Interests: digital pathology; infectious disease clinical presentation and population health; comparative virology; retrovirology - eradication strategies and gene therapy vectors; feline infectious peritonitis - novel diagnostics and therapeutics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Veterinary Clinical Research is important because it enables primary care veterinarians to practice evidence-based medicine. Yet many veterinary research articles published each year typically lean towards very targeted academic interests and may be less immediately useful for informing and improving primary care. A paucity of publications of clinical research means that veterinarians often have to use therapies in the absence of data supporting their efficacy, resulting in extensive use of therapies that are eventually found to be ineffective and sometimes even unsafe.
Clinical research advances medical knowledge, improving animal, and potentially human, health using a patient-based approach. Patient-based research involves methods implemented into everyday veterinary practice, generally making them immediately translatable and deliverable to current veterinary healthcare. Such research ranges from cataloguing, tracking, assessing and analysing health concerns, infection patterns and disease mechanisms / progression / outcomes in given animal populations, to validating new approaches to disease detection, to testing the safety and effectiveness of innovative treatments and health management. The ability to study naturally occurring disease cohorts that live closely within our environment, along with the application of novel therapeutics to acute and chronic illnesses, mirroring our own, can lead to advantages for the comparative study as well as One Health.
We invite manuscripts of original clinical research that address veterinary microbiology in companion animals. Topics of special interest are changing veterinary practices to address impending antimicrobial resistance arising from conventional antibiotic use, including new approaches such as phage therapies, as well as the loss of beneficial microbes as unintended side effects of the use of broad spectrum antibiotics or other medications, and applications of fecal microbiota transplantation in clinical practice.
Dr. Holly H. Ganz
Dr. Dawn D. Kingsbury
Dr. Samantha Evans
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Antibiotics
- Antimicrobials
- Antimicrobial Resistance
- Phage Therapy
- Fecal Transplantation
- Bacteria
- Microbiome
- Microbiology
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