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Canine Distemper (Hardpad Disease)

-Viral disease of carnivores

-Worldwide distribution

-Incidence of disease is greatest in dogs 3-6months of age

-Virus is easy to destroy

-Often fatal

AGENT: Canine Distemper Virus (Morbillivirus

Infectious Canine Hepatitis (ICH)

•Hardy virus

•watch your disinfectant use

•Once transmitted, the virus replicates in the tonsils and regional lymph nodes

•Virus is then released into the body and localizes in the liver

•Not a common disease today, due to vaccination.

AGENT: Canine Adenovirus (type 1 & 2)

Canine Parvo Virus

• VERY contagious; HARDY

• attacks lining of the intestine;

• resistant to many disinfectants;

• shed in feces up to 3 wks post recovery

• heart damage

AGENT: Canine Parvo Virus (type 1 & 2)

Canine Leptospirosis

• deadly, gram-negative, spirochete, bacteria

• ZOONOTIC

• usually complete recovery with good prognosis

• #1 cause of acute renal failure in dogs

AGENT: Leptospira interrogans

Canine Parainfluenza

• mild upper respiratory tract infection

• can be associated with kennel cough

• Damage to tracheal lining can lead to secondary infection

AGENT: Canine parainfluenza virus (CPiV)

Infectious Canine Tracheobronchitis (Kennel Cough” “Canine Croup”)

• Bordetella bronchiseptica

• acute or chronic inflammation of the trachea and airways;

• extremely contagious

Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis (FVR)

• Highly contagious upper respiratory disease of cats

• High morbidity & moderate mortality rate

• Extremely severe in young kittens

• Vaccinated cats may show mild clinical signs of infection

• Disinfectants easily kill feline herpesvirus type 1 viruses

AGENT: Feline Herpesvirus (FHV-1)

Calicivirus

• One of the major causes of feline URD

• Acute, highly contagious upper respiratory tract disease in cats

• Resistant to disinfectants

• Can live several days in the environment

• High morbidity, low mortality

Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)

• mutated coronavirus

• the virus that causes FIP is highly contagious, not FIP

• primary disease of catteries and multi-cat households

• high mortality

AGENT: Mutated coronavirus

Feline Panleukopenia (feline distemper)

• Young, feral, unvaccinated cat disease

• Acute, systemic, and enteric viral disease

• Sudden onset

• HIGHLY contagious, High mortality rate

• Recovered cats have a lifetime immunity against FPV

AGENT:DNA virus of the family Parvoviridae (Feline ParvoVirus

Feline Leukemia (FELV)

• cause of more cat deaths, directly or indirectly, than any other organism

• causes immunosupression and various types of cancer (lymphoma and leukemia)

• can clear initional infection but no cure for persistent infection which ultimately leads to death

AGENT: Feline leukemia virus/Retrovirus

Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV)

• Immunodeficiency disease in domestic cats

• Similar to the HIV virus but is antigenically distinct

• Species specific

• No health hazard for humans

• Cats can be asymptomatic for >5yrs.

AGENT: Feline Immunodeficiency Virus/Lentivirus

Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA)

- equine infectious anemia virus
- bloodborn infection
- "coggins disease"

Agent:Equine Infectious Anemia Virus (EIAV)

Equine Viral Rhinopneumonitis (Equine Herpes Virus)

• type 1 causes reproductive issues;

• type 4 causes respiratory issues

• Both viruses are ubiquitous

• ◦EHV-4 infection is restricted to respiratory tract epithelium and associated lymph nodes

◦EHV-1 strains have a predilection for vascular endothelium, especially the nasal mucosa, lungs, adrenal, thyroid, and CNS.

Agent:Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) and EHV-4 comprise

Equine Influenza (Shipping Fever)

• highly contagious and spreads rapidly

• but rarely fatal, except in donkeys, zebras, and debilitated horses.

• Two immunologically distinct influenza viruses have been found in horse populations worldwide except in Australia and New Zealand

Agent:Orthomyxovirus

Equine Viral Encephalomyelitis (Sleeping Sickess)

• Arbovirus

• CNS dysfunction,

• mod to high mortality,

• Western, Eastern, and Venezuelan

Agent:Arboviruses

Strangles (Equne Distemper)

• infectious and contagious disease

• abscessation of lymphoid tissue of the upper respiroratory Tract

• Gram postive

• high mobidity and low mortality in sus. pop.

• reportable disease in GA

Agent:Streptococcus equi

Clostridial Infection

• form spores and remain dormant in the soil for a long time;

• more common with fresh wounds

• Widespread among sheep and fairly common among cattle

Agent:C. tetani (Tetanus)

Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD)

• ◦Most common in young cattle (6-24 mo old)

• ◦Generally is accompanied by typical mucosal lesions

• ◦Distinguish from other viral diseases that produce diarrhea and mucosal lesions

Agent:◦Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV)

Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV)

• ◦Worldwide

• ◦Indigenous in the cattle population

• ◦Nationwide studies have shown that BRSV is present in 38% to 76% of beef and dairy herds.

• ◦BRSV, however, has been identified as an important disease agent in both nursing and weaned calves.

Agent:◦Bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV)

Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR, RED NOSE)

• ◦As the virus spreads from animal to animal, it becomes increasingly "hotter", that is, its ability to cause disease increases.

• ◦The virus that causes IBR is capable of attacking many different tissues in the body and, therefore, is capable of producing a variety of clinical disease forms according to which tissues of the animal it infects.

1. respiratory tract infections

2. eye infection

3. abortions

4. genital infections

5. brain infections

Agent:◦Bovine herpesvirus type 1

Scours

• can be zoonotic

Agent:

caused by a variety of infectious agents and conditions (e.coli, salmonella, rotavirus, coronavirus)

Footrot

• ◦Foot rot is a term loosely used to describe lameness associated with the bovine foot.

• ◦True foot rot is characterized by acute inflammation of the skin and adjacent soft tissues of the interdigital cleft or space.

• ◦It is a frequent problem of beef and dairy cattle, especially in poorly drained, muddy pens or lots and pastures.

Agent◦F necrophorum in foot rot infections (Primary)

Rabies

• all animals susceptible

ORGANISM: Rhabdovirus

Toxoplasmosis

• Cats are definitive host and most susceptible

ORGANISM: Toxoplasma Gondii (Protozoan)

West Nile Virus

• wild birds, equids, dog, cats

AGENT: Flavivirus

Dermatophytosis

•Microsporum spp.

•Trichophyton spp. (Ringworm)

Toxocara (canis & cati)

• Roundworm

• hardy and long lived

Ancylostoma

• Hookworm

Dipylidium

• Tapeworm

• - can get from swallowing a flea

Trichuriasis

• Whipworms

Borreliosis

• Lyme Disease

ORGANISM: Borrelia burgdorferi (spirochete bacteria)

Brucellosis

Brucella canis (Many forms, cattle sheep pigs)

Characteristics:

•Cause of abortion in kenneled dogs

•Spreads quickly among closely confined dogs, especially at time of breeding or when abortions occur.

•Must test before breeding

•ZOONOTIC!

•Accidental contact with Bovine Brucellosis vaccine can cause serious human disease

AGENT: Brucella canis (Many forms, cattle sheep pigs)