Chapter 1
Introduction Authors
Dr Muna Ali Abdalla and Prof. Lyndy J McGaw
University of Pretoria, Phytomedicine Programme, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa The role of natural products and remedies in treating animal diseases
Chapter 2
Natural products for animal health
Authors
Dr Muna Ali Abdalla and Prof. Lyndy J McGaw
University of Pretoria, Phytomedicine Programme, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa Chapter 3
Potential plants for the treatment of livestock diseases Authors
Dr Subramaniyan Vijayakumar PG and Research Department of Botany and Microbiology, A.V.V.M. Sri Pushpam College (Autonomous) Poondi, Thanjavur (Dist.), Tamil Nadu, India
Email address: svijaya_kumar2579@rediff.com
Chapter 4
Medicinal plants and their influences on animal infectious diseases
Authors
M. Fawzi Mahomoodally
Department of Heal
th Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, 230 Réduit, Mauritius Chapter 5
Traditional remedies for the treatment of poultry diseases Authors
Dr Wen-Chin Yang Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chapter 6
Medicinal plants used for horses
Authors
Prof. Karla Georges
The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Chapter 7
Plants for controlling parasites in goats
Authors
Prof. Voster Muchenje
Fort Hare University, Alice, South Africa
Ethnoveterinary practices and natural remedies in the control of tick and helminth parasites
Chapter 8
Potential medicinal plants for treating ticks
Authors
1. Prof. Christian Kiffner
The School for Field Studies, Beverly, MA, USA
2. Prof. Ronette Gehring
Department of Anato
my and Physiology, Kansas State University, USA Chapter 9
Ethnoveterinary practices in the control of ticks in Africa
Authors
Dr Felix Nchu
Department of Horticultural Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Room 0.68, Design Building, Symphony Way, Bellville, P.O. Box 1906 Bellville, 7535 South Africa
Chapter 10
Medicinal plants for the control of ticks
Authors
Dr Olubkola Adenubi, Dr Muna Ali Abdalla, Prof. Lyndy McGaw
University of Pretoria, Phytomedicine Programme, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa
Chapter
11 Ethnoveterinary remedies and methods of evaluation in the control of ticks in India
Authors
Dr Suman Mishra
Dept. of Applied Animal Sciences, B.B. Ambedkar University Lucknow-226025(U.P), India
Chapter 12 Ethnoveterinary control of helminth p
About the Author: Lyndy McGaw is Associate Professor and Leader of the Phytomedicine Programme based at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on investigation and development of effective and safe anthelmintic, acaricidal, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial remedies for use in animal and human medicine, as well as alternatives to antimicrobial feed additives. Prof McGaw has published over 100 scientific papers and has contributed 14 book chapters. She serves on the editorial boards of Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology, South African Journal of Botany, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Journal of Ethnopharmacology. She was listed as one of the top 31 cited African researchers in Pharmacology and Toxicology by Thomson Reuters in 2013, and was recently awarded "Researcher of the Year" at the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Pretoria.
Muna Ali Abdalla pursued PhD studies in Natural Products Chemistry in the group of Prof. Hartmut Laatsch at Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany. From February 2013 to January 2016 she worked as Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Chemistry, TU Berlin. From 2016 she was awarded a three-year contract as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She was appointed as a phytochemist involved in collaborative projects as well as supervision of PhD students. Dr Abdalla has published more than 30 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, discovered dozens of bioactive compounds such as abyssomicins, quinones, alkaloids, tetracyclopeptides and phenolic compounds from microorganisms as well as several plant-derived metabolites.
