Feline Viral Diseases
This disease is characterized by horizontal (saliva, urine, feces) and vertical (mom to baby) transmission with cleared vs. latent infection options and antigen testing for SNAP test
FELINE LEUKEMIA VIRUS
The disease is characterized by horizontal transmission via aerosolized particles that can result in neurological signs and, gastroenteritis or respiratory signs following an initial fever in unvaccinated dogs
What is CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS
This disease is a zoonotic disease that can cause stomatitis and upper respiratory signs in cats and is transmitted via fleas
BARTONELLA HENSELAE
Parasite that results in visceral larval migrans and pot-bellied appearances in young puppies and kittens
Toxocara canis/Roundworms
Budding yeast whose spores get inhaled and then spread and cause coughing/dyspnea, lameness due to bone infections, and/or skin lesions with a poor prognosis
BLASTOMYCOSIS
This disease is characteritzed by horizontal transmission through fighting (saliva or blood) with antibody testing for SNAP tests
FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
This characterized by horizontal transmission via urine/feces or saliva that can result in sudden death, oculonasal discharge or even liver failure
What is INFECTIOUS CANINE HEPATITIS
This reportable disease’s reservoirs are wild rodents which carry the flea vectors that carry the disease which is zoonotic and dogs are mostly resistant to it
What is YERSINIA PESTIS
This parasite can cause cutaneous larval migrans in humans and bloody diarrhea and anemia in infected dogs and cats
HOOKWORMS/ANCYCLOSTOMA BRANZILENSE/CANINUM
Budding yeast whose spores are more commonly found in Nitrogen rich areas, that when inhaled causes mostly confined disease to the respiratory tract with a fair to good prognosis
HISTOPLASMOSIS
This antibodies for this disease can be found in 90% of cats in shelters with horizontal transmission including through fomites
FELINE ENTERIC CORONAVIRUS
This disease is characterizd by horizontal transmission via direct contact with lesions or fomites like feeding bowls or toys with it mainly seen along the lips and oral mucosa of immunocompromised animals
What is CANINE PAPILLOMA VIRUS
This disease is an STD that can cause abortions, testicular enlargement, or discospondylitis in dogs
What is BRUCELLOSIS
This parasite group can be found in intermediate hosts like fleas or rabbits and rodents and cause rectal itching
TAPEWORMS/DIPYLIDIUM CANINUM, TAENIA, ECHINOCOCCUS
Narrow based budding yeast that affects mostly cats by affecting the resp. system, especially causing firm swellings over the nose that can be referred to as “Roman nose” syndrome
CRYPTOCOCCUS
This disease is a mutation of FECoV that results in massive replication in macrophages that results in highly variable clinical signs and 2 main disease states that are classified as wet vs. dry
What is FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS
This disease is characterized by horizontal transmission via sand-fly vector bites that infects macrophages, then causes cutaneous lesions or systemic disease like renal failure and GI disease
What is LEISHMANIASIS
This disease is characterized horizontal transmission via direct contact with secretions or body fluids or tick or fly bites in rabbits, rodents, and occasionally cats
What is TULEREMIA
Anti-parasitic that can treat most parasites, including roundworms and hookworms, but NOT tapeworms
FENBENDAZOLE
A commensal nasal fungus that can cause plaques that invade the nasal mucosa causing depigmentation and ulceration of the nares
ASPERGILLOSIS
This disease requires that you check to ensure the patient has not be previously vaccinated as you can get a false positive result
FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS
This disease is characterized by transmission via tick vectors with blood transmission or transplacental transmission that results in pear shaped trophozoites in RBCs causing anemia and leukocytosis
What is BABESIA CANIS/GIBSONI
Disease that is mostly seen in immuno-compromised dogs that have a history of skin problems that were inappropriately treated which created a mutation in the infectious organism
Methicillin resistant staph pseudointermedius
Group of parasites that can most often be missed on regular fecal floatation because of the difference in the density of their eggs
TAPEWORMS/DIPYLIDIUM CANINUM, TAENIA, ECHINOCOCCUS
This antifungal can be used to treat all of the fungi that were discussed in our lecture
ITRACONAZOLE