Certifying Examination Recommended Reading List

(in alphabetical order) – updated Oct 2025

Clinical Veterinary Microbiology 2^nd Edition (2013)

by Bryan Markey (Author), Finola Leonard (Author), Marie Archambault (Author), Ann Cullinane (Author), Dores Maguire (Author)

Mosby
ISBN-13: 978-0723432371
ISBN-10: 9780723432371

Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease 2nd Edition (2011) – a third edition of this book is due out in summer 2026

By P. J. Quinn (Author), B. K. Markey (Author), F. C. Leonard (Author), E. S. Fitzpatrick (Author), S. Fanning (Author)

Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-13: 978-1405158237
ISBN-10: 1405158239

Knowledge of basic and applied immunology, epidemiology, virology and pathology is assumed. Guidance for revision on these topics include the following textbooks:

Veterinary Immunology 11th edition (2024)

By Ian Tizard.

Saunders
Wiley
ISBN:9780443109751
https://shop.elsevier.com/books/veterinary-immunology/tizard/978-0-443-10975-1

Fenner’s Veterinary Virology 5^th Edition (2016)

by N. James Maclachlan BVSc MS PhD (Editor), Edward J Dubovi B.A. M.A. Ph.D. (Editor)

Academic Press
ISBN-13: 978-0128009468
ISBN-10: 0128009462

Veterinary Epidemiology

M. V. Thrusfield, Robert Christley
4th edition, 2018, Wiley
ISBN:9781118280287

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781118280287?gC=5a105e8b&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20226739100&gbraid=0AAAAADsTpARTaYRjDkCXDouKGBXfJDya0&gclid=CjwKCAjw4efDBhATEiwAaDBpbpiO0PsDPn2mqZF0jmSNv4jmm-vBYEkUSK_8kOSUWtguQ3dbURpNgRoCYSwQAvD_BwE

Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease 7th edition (2022)

By James F. Zachary (Editor)

https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/pathologic-basis-of-veterinary-disease-9780323713139.html

The following textbooks are a useful source of information to increase the understanding and depth of knowledge of the candidate but would not be considered essential reading.

Veterinary Microbiology 4th Edition (2022)

by D. Scott McVey (Editor), Melissa Kennedy (Editor), M. M. Chengappa (Editor)

Wiley
Print ISBN:9781119650751
Online ISBN:9781119650836
DOI:10.1002/9781119650836
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119650836

Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections in Animals 5th Edition (2022)

John F. Prescott (Author) Janet I. MacInnes (Author) Filip Van Immerseel (Author) John D. Boyce (Author) Andrew N. Rycroft (Author) José A. Vázquez-Boland (Author)

Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN-10: 1119754798
ISBN-13: 978-1119754794
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119754862

Emerging and Epizootic Fungal Infections in Animals (2018)

By S. Seyedmousavi, G. S. de Hoog, J. Guillot, P. E. Verweij (Editors)

Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN-139783319720913
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72093-7

Antimicrobial therapy in veterinary medicine (2024)

Editor(s): Patricia M. Dowling DVM, MSc, DACVIM, DACVCP,, John F. Prescott MA, VetMB, PhD, FCAHS,, Keith E. Baptiste BVMS, MSc, PhD, MRCVS, DACVIM, DECEIM,
First published:29 November 2024

Print ISBN:9781119654599 |Online ISBN:9781119654629 |DOI:10.1002/9781119654629

(in order of priority)

1. Veterinary Microbiology
   2. Veterinary Research
   3. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation
   4. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
   5. Veterinary Record
   6. The Veterinary Journal
   7. Preventive Veterinary Medicine
   8. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Exam questions may come from the literature published within the last five years.
Questions may also come from older articles if they are considered significant and essential to the application of veterinary microbiology.

This list of journals is not intended to be a compulsory reading list but candidates should be encouraged to select publications within these journals that apply to:

1. Investigation, diagnosis and control of infectious conditions;
   2. Antimicrobial resistance;
   3. Food microbiology;
   4. One Health;
   5. Emerging diseases.