Reading List Small Mammal specialty
Last updated April 2015
List of journals (last 5 years), only articles clinically relevant to the specialty
- American Journal of Veterinary Research
- Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association
- Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
- Journal of Small Animal Practice
- Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine (Saunders)
- Veterinary Clinics of North America, Exotic Animal Practice
- Veterinary Record
- Veterinary Journal
- Veterinary Dermatology
- Veterinary Ophtalmology
- Veterinary Clinical PathologyMonographs
- Capello V, Gracis M, Lennox AM (eds): Rabbit and Rodent Dentistry Handbook,. Zoological Education Network, 2005 (270 p)
- Capello V, Lennox AM (eds): Clinical Radiology of Exotic Companion Mammals, Blackwell, 2008 (490 p)
- Fox JG, Marini RP, Biology and Diseases of the Ferret, 3rd edition, Wiley, 2014. A total of 551 pp, namely Chapter 2 (45 p.), 4 (42p.), 5 (22 p.), 7 (30 p.), 8 (13 p.), section II, Chapters 11-24 (394 pp.)
- Harcourt-Brown F, Chitty J (eds). BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Surgery, Dentistry and Imaging. British Small Animal Veterinary Association, Gloucester, 2013 (448 p)
- Keeble E, Meredith A (eds): BSAVA Manual of Rodents and Ferrets. BSAVA – British Small Animal Veterinary Association, Gloucester, 2009. (340 p)
- Krautwald-Junghanns M., Pees M.; Reese S., Tully T. Diagnostic Imaging of exotic pets. Schlutersche, 2010. (ONLY SMALL MAMMAL PARTS: 165 p)
- Meredith A, Johnson-Delaney C. (eds): BSAVA Manual of Exotic Pets. 5th edition BSAVA – British Small Animal Veterinary Association, Gloucester, 2010 (ONLY SMALL MAMMAL PARTS = 166 p)
- Meredith A, Lord, B. (eds): BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Medicine. BSAVA – British Small Animal Veterinary Association, Gloucester, 2014 (336 p)
- O’Malley B. Clinical anatomy and physiology of exotic species: structure and function of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Edinburgh/New York: Elsevier Saunders, 2005. (SMALL MAMMAL RELATED CHAPTERS ONLY, 98 pp)
- Paterson S. Skin diseases of exotic pets. Blackwell, 2006.
(ONLY SMALL MAMMAL PARTS: 152 p) - Percy DH, Barthold SW. (eds): Pathology of Laboratory Rodents and Rabbits, 3rd edition, Blackwell, 2007. (230 p)
- Popesko P, Rajtova V, Horak J. (eds): Colour Atlas of the Anatomy of Small Laboratory Animals Volume I: Rabbit and Guinea Pig, Elsevier Science, 1990. (240 p)
- Quesenberry KE, Carpenter J (eds): Ferrets, rabbits and rodents: clinical medicine and surgery. 3rd edition Saunders, 2012. (560p)
- Suckow MA, Stevens, KA, Wilson RP (Eds): The Laboratory Rabbit, Guinea Pig, Hamster, and Other Rodents. Elsevier, 2012 (IN TOTAL 1268 PP, ONLY TOPICS RELEVANT TO THE SMALL MAMMAL SPECIALTY)
- Thrall, MA. Veterinary Hematology and Clinical Chemistry Wilkins Blackwell
ONLY THE PARTS RELATED TO SMALL MAMMALS, i.e. chapter 16 and 31 (30 p) - Tynes V (ed): Behavior of Exotic Pets, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, a total of 155 pages: all small mammal related chapters (i.e. ferrets [10 pp], rabbits [9 pp], guinea pigs [13 pp], mice [13 pp], rats [13 pp], gerbils [10 pp], hamsters [11 pp], chinchillas [10 pp], prairie dogs [9 pp], hedgehogs [13 pp], sugar gliders [9 pp]) as well as three general chapters on universal principles of learning [16 pp], behavioral pharmacology [9 pp] and welfare of exotic animals in captivity [10 pp].
- Varga M. Textbook of rabbit medicine, Elsevier, 2013 (512 p)
- Williams DL. Ophthalmology of Exotic Pets. 1st edn. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2012 (SMALL MAMMAL RELATED CHAPTERS ONLY, 104 pp)