Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat: A Color Handbook

 

Description:

This is a concise and quick reference guide, clinically oriented, based on experience underpinned by published research data.

The systems-based approach emphasizes the problem list process utilized by most practitioners when faced with a patient presenting with a single or variety of clinical symptoms.

This allows generation of a complete list of infectious disease differentials, and the ability to include or exclude those indicated based on patient risk assessment.

Pathogen specific information enables rational choice of diagnostics, therapy, and prognostication for a complete list of small animal infectious disease that includes bacterial, viral, parasitic/protozoal and fungal.

 

Table of Contents:

 

CHAPTER 1 RESPIRATORY DISEASES

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus/cat lungworm, verminous pneumonia

Bacterial pneumonia

Blastomyces dermatitidis/blastomycosis

Bordetella bronchiseptica

Canine adenovirus type 2

Canine infectious respiratory disease complex; kennel cough, infectious tracheobronchitis

Canine parainfluenza virus

Canine respiratory coronavirus

Chlamydiosis/Chlamydia (formerly Chlamydophila) felis

Crenosoma vulpis (fox lungworm)

Eucoleus aerophilus (Capillaria aerophila) (lungworm)

Feline calicivirus

Feline herpesvirus 1 (feline viral rhinotracheitis)

Feline upper respiratory tract disease

Filarid lungworms: Filaroides hirthi, Oslerus (Filaroides) osleri

Influenza virus

Mycoplasma spp.

Paragonimus kellicotti (lung fluke)

Pneumonyssoides caninum

Pyothorax

Streptococcus zooepidemicus

References

CHAPTER 2 GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES

Baylisascaris procyonis

Campylobacter

Canine circovirus

Canine enteric coronavirus

Clostridium difficile

Clostridium perfringens

Cryptosporidium

Cystoisospora

Echinococcus multilocularis

Giardiosis

Granulomatous colitis

Helicobacter spp.

(H.

pylori and non-H.

pylori Helicobacter spp.

)

Heterobilharzia americana (North American canine schistosomiasis)

Hookworms: Ancylostoma and Uncinaria spp.

Liver flukes: Platynosomum fastosum, Platynosomum concinnum

Parasitic gastritis: Physaloptera spp.

and Ollulanus tricuspis

Parvoviruses: canine parvovirus and feline panleukopenia virus

Salmonella

Tapeworms: Taenia spp.

and Dipylidium caninum

Toxocara and Toxascaris spp.

(ascarids or roundworms)

Trichuris vulpis (canine whipworms)

Tritrichomonas foetus colitis (trichomoniasis)

References

CHAPTER 3 NEUROLOGIC DISEASES

Bacterial meningitis or meningoencephalitis

Canine distemper virus (distemper)

Clostridium botulinum/botulism

Clostridium tetani/tetanus

Cuterebra myiasis

Diskospondylitis

Neospora caninum

Pseudorabies

Rabies

Tick paralysis

West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis virus

References

CHAPTER 4 GENITOURINARY DISEASES

Bacterial cystitis

Brucellosis (Brucella canis)

Canine transmissible venereal tumor

Dioctophyme renale (giant kidney worm)

Fungal urinary tract infection

Leptospirosis

Prostatitis

Pyelonephritis

Pyometra

References

CHAPTER 5 SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE DISEASES

Cheyletiella spp.

(cheyletiellosis)

Demodex canis

Dermatophytosis (ringworm)

Lagenidiosis

Lepromatous mycobacterial infections

Malassezia pachydermatis

Necrotizing fasciitis

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria

Otitis externa

Otodectes cynotis (ear mites)

Papillomavirus

Pyoderma

Pythium insidiosum (pythiosis)

Sarcoptes scabiei and Notoedres cati

Sporotrichosis

Zygomycosis

References

CHAPTER 6 MULTISYSTEM DISEASES

Actinomyces and Nocardia spp.

Anaerobic bacterial infections

Angiostrongylus vasorum (French heartworm)

Babesia spp.

(babesiosis)

Bartonella spp.

(bartonellosis)

Coccidioides immitis and C.

posadasii (coccidioidomycosis, valley fever)

Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)

Cryptococcosis

Cytauxzoon felis (cytauxzoonosis)

Dirofilaria immitis (heartworm)

Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis

Environmental and opportunistic fungal pathogens

Feline immunodeficiency virus

Feline infectious peritonitis

Feline leukemia virus

Hemotropic mycoplasmas

Hepatozoon americanum (American canine hepatozoonosis)

Histoplasmosis

Leishmania spp.

(leishmaniosis)

Listeriosis

Lyme disease (borreliosis)

Neorickettsia helminthoeca (salmon poisoning)

Plague/Yersinia pestis

Prototheca spp.

(protothecosis)

Rocky Mountain spotted fever/Rickettsia rickettsii

Surgical site infections

Toxoplasma gondii (toxoplasmosis)

Trypanosomiasis

Tularemia (Franciscella tularensis)

References

Index