Focus on Medicine, Surgery, Infectious and Parasitological Diseases, and Rehabilitation Aspects to Improve Wild Animal Health

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the fact that the rescue, management, and rehabilitation of wildlife is often subject to controversy and discussion, the recent increase in legislation to protect and raise public awareness makes interventions on orphaned or injured wild animals increasingly common in veterinary practice.
Unfortunately, veterinary knowledge on these animals is poor and veterinarians often use methodologies and knowledge extrapolated directly from domestic species even if each wild animal has biological, ecological, and physiological peculiarities, and specific diseases and clinical conditions. Wild animals are free-living and their very wildness should be considered during every clinical procedure, treatment, and intervention which can be complicated by the ‘wild nature’ of these animals.
Knowledge about the presence of the most diffused and emerging infectious and parasitic diseases, the epidemiological patterns, symptoms and clinical consequences are the major key point for their correct management.
This Special Issue aims to provide new insights outlining and covering all the main topics related to internal medicine, infectious and parasitic disease, surgery, management, and rehabilitation aspects to improve the health of wild animals.
Original manuscripts should focus on any aspects of wildlife medicine: detection and characterization of pathogens; hospitalization and handling; clinical and surgical procedures; anesthesiological and therapeutic protocols; and release procedure.

Prof. Maurizio Mazzei
Prof Micaela Sgorbini
Dr. Maria Irene Pacini
Guest Editors

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