More emphasis is given on anatomic pathology and pathogenesis of the disease condition and its relation with diagnosis and identification of the cause of disease. Thus, the book will be useful to the students as textbook of special pathology courses and to the veterinarians for better understanding the diseases of animals and birds.

The field veterinarians will also find it useful in their day to day routine work of diagnosing the diseases, identification of the causative agents and thereby suggesting the effective therapeutic and preventive measure to contain the livestock and poultry diseases. The animals cannot speak their illness, it is the veterinarians who may apply his/her mind to identify the disease and its cause mainly based on the characteristic symptoms and macroscopic or microscopic lesions which are exhaustively presented in this book alongwith illustrations.