1: The human dog relationship: A tale of two species, Alan M Beck, Purdue University, USA 2: Dog ecology and population biology, Hans C Matter, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and Thomas J Daniels, Fordham University, USA 3: Dogs and rabies, Alexander I Wandeler, OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies, Canada and John Bingham, OIE Reference Laboratory for Rabies, South Africa 4: Dogs and bacterial zoonoses, Bruno B Chomel and Jonathan J Artz, University of California, USA 5: Dogs and protozoan zoonoses, Richard W Ashford, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and Karen F Snowden, Texas A&M University, USA 6: Dogs and trematode zoonoses, Ralph Muller, formerly of the International Institute of Parasitology, UK 7: Dogs and cestode zoonoses, Calum N L Macpherson, Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation, West Indies and Philip S Craig, The University of Salford, UK 8: Dogs and nematode zoonoses, Paul Overgaauw and Frans van Knapen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 9: Dogs and ectoparasitic zoonoses, Cathy F Curtis, Hertfordshire, UK 10: Zoonoses and immunosuppressed populations, R Ashley Robinson, Western University of Health Sciences, California, USA 11: Dog population management, Joy Leney and Jenny Remfry, World Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals, UK 12: Zoonoses control in dogs, Francois-X Meslin, World Health Organization, Switzerland, Michael A Miles, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, J Alejandro Vexenat, Campus Universitaria UNB, Brazil and Michael A Gemmell, UK