Overview
Infectious diseases in animals are illnesses caused by pathogenic microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, that infect animals and can spread between them and, in the case of zoonoses, to humans. They affect domestic livestock, companion animals, and wildlife, and encompass respiratory, gastrointestinal, reproductive, skin, and systemic infections. These diseases are a central concern of veterinary medicine because of their impact on animal welfare, agricultural productivity, food safety, and public health, and their control depends on accurate diagnosis, vaccination, biosecurity, surveillance, and treatment. Many animal infections, such as brucellosis, tuberculosis, and influenza, have zoonotic potential, making veterinary and human health closely intertwined under a One Health framework. Research published in Veterinary Healthcare addresses a range of these conditions; work in the journal's record includes serological evidence of influenza A virus infection in South American camelids, studies of camel brucellosis seroprevalence in Ethiopia, the effect of coinfection on bovine tuberculosis immunodiagnosis, Chagas disease in dogs, and the examination of ovine fasciolosis in sheep. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to infectious diseases in animals and their diagnosis, transmission, and control.
Research published in this journal
8 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
How this research is being cited
The 8 articles above have been cited 46 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Frontiers in Veterinary Science
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2026 · Veterinary Medicine International
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Andrea Hernández-Flores et al. · 2025 · Pathogens
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Stefan Coman et al. · 2025 · Animals
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2025 · PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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Simachew Getaneh Endalamew et al. · 2025 · bioRxiv
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2025 · PLoS neglected tropical diseases
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2024 · Heliyon
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Infectious Diseases in Animals, linking to each citing work.