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Literature List 2025

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Below are the recommended reading lists for candidates sitting the 2025 ECVP examination.

Please note that reading lists are provided for guidance only and are not exhaustive. The examination will not necessarily be limited to the suggested references, as other books or journals may contain good papers or articles on veterinary pathology and these could potentially be included in the examination. Therefore, you should maintain a broad scan of relevant publications.

Each year approximately 80% of examination questions are taken from books and journals listed in the reading list. Your journal scan should focus on the last five years. Journal articles in print or electronically released before 1st September before the examination are considered in preparation for the examination. As an example, for the 2025 examination, your journal scan should focus on the period that goes from 1st January 2020 to 31st August 2024.

Literature list for 2025 exam

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Books:

  1. Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, international edition, 10th ed, by Kumar, Abbas and Aster. Saunders Elsevier, 2021, General Pathology (Chapters 1-8). ISBN: 978-0-323-53113-9/978-0-323-60992-0.
  2. Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease. Zachary J F, 7th ed, Mosby Press, 2022. ISBN: ‎ 978-0323713139 (Section I: Chapters 1-6, concentrate on pathogenetic mechanisms and diseases described in animals).

Journals: (mainly focus on review articles relevant for general pathology):

  1. Nature (main Journal only)
  2. Science
  3. Veterinary Pathology
  4. The New England Journal of Medicine
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2.1. SMALL ANIMALS (dog, cat) and LARGE ANIMALS (horse, sheep, goat, cattle, pig)

Books:

  1. Jubb, Kennedy & Palmer’s Pathology of Domestic Animals: Volume 1-3, 6th Saunders Ltd., 2015, ISBN: 9780702053191
  2. Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease. Zachary J F, 7th ed, Mosby Press, 2022. ISBN: ‎ 978-0323713139.

Journals:

  1. Veterinary Pathology
  2. Journal of Comparative Pathology

2.2. EXOTIC AND WILDLIFE ANIMALS (cage birds, zoo animals, wildlife)

Books:

  1. Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals. 1st Karen A. Terio, Denise McAloose, Judy St. Leger, Academic press, 2018. ISBN: 9780128053065
  2. Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds. 2nd Schmidt, Reavill & Phalen, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-118-82809-0

Journals:

  1. Veterinary Pathology
  2. Journal of Comparative Pathology
  3. Journal of Wildlife Diseases
  4. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife medicine
  5. Screening for appropriate manuscripts: Avian Pathology and Avian Diseases

2.3. POULTRY (industrially kept birds)

Books:

  1. Diseases of Poultry, 14th Edition, David E. Swayne, Martine Boulianne, Catherine M. Logue, Larry R. McDougald, Venugopal Nair, David L. Suarez, Sjaak de Wit, Tom Grimes, Deirdre Johnson, Michelle Kromm, Teguh Yodiantara Prajitno, Ian Rubinoff, Guillermo Zavala, 2019 Online ISBN:9781119371199
  2. Avian Histopathology, 4th ed, 2016, published by the American Association of Avian Pathologists, edited by Tahseen Abdul-Aziz

Journals:

  1. Avian Pathology
  2. Avian Diseases
  3. Veterinary Pathology
  4. Journal of Comparative Pathology

2.4. LABORATORY ANIMALS (mouse, rat, non-human primate, dog, rabbit, guinea pig, zebrafish and other species used for biomedical research and drug safety assessment) 

This section covers non-infectious spontaneous background pathology, infectious diseases of laboratory animal species, and pathology of well-establised or well-described animal models of human diseases (transgenic, experimental, infectious…). Questions on animal models may represent up to 40% of the exam.

Books:

  1. Background Lesions in Laboratory Animals, by E.F. McInnes, Saunders Elsevier 2012. ISBN 978-0-7020-3519-7
  2. Pathology of Laboratory Rodents and Rabbits, by S.W. Barthold, S.M. Griffey, D.H. Percy, 4th ed, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-118-82424-5
  3. Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research, Volume 2: Diseases, Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 6. By C.R. Abee, K. Mansfield, S.D. Tardif, T. Morris, 2nd ed, American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Academic Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0123813664

Journals:

Only articles related to spontaneous non-infectious background pathology, spontaneous infectious diseases, and pathology of well-described or well-established animal models of human disease:

  1. Toxicologic Pathology 
  2. Veterinary Pathology