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Along with viruses and bacteria, fungal organisms can cause disease in dogs. Probably the most common one pet owners are familiar with and have heard about is dermatophytosis, or ringworm. In addition, yeast infections can be a common problem in the ears of dogs. These types of yeast and fungi that affect mainly the outer skin surfaces are termed superficial mycoses.
Tags: Article Pets Animals Ringworm and Fungal Disease in dogs
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Definition- An acute to subacute contagious febrile and often fatal disease with respiratory, gastrointestinal, and CNS manifestations
- Caused by CDV, a morbillivirus in the Paramyxoviridae family
- Affects many different species of the order Carnivora; mortality rate varies greatly among species.
This infamous viral disease of dogs used to be one of the leading causes of death in unvaccinated puppies throughout the world. Although the incidence of this disease has decreased dramatically over the years because of vaccination programs, the distemper virus is still out there and can strike without warning.
Tags: Article Pets Animals Canine Distemper in dogs Paramyxoviridae morbillivirus
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Definition- CPV-2 infection is an acute systemic illness characterized by hemorrhagic enteritis.
- Often fatal in pups, who may collapse in a “shock-like” state and die suddenly without enteric signs, after only a brief period of malaise.
- The myocardial form, observed in pups during the early outbreaks when the dog population was fully susceptible, is now rare.
- Most pups are now protected against neonatal infection by maternal antibodies.
- Monoclonal antibodies have revealed antigenic changes in CPV-2 since its emergence in 1978.
- The original virus is now virtually extinct in the domestic dog population.
- The viruses currently circulating in dogs, designated CPV-2a and CPV-2b, have been genetically stable since 1984.
- These viruses are more virulent than the original isolates, and case mortality rates appear to be higher than in the earliest outbreaks.
- Most of the clinical literature is based on the response of dogs to CPV-2 and should be reevaluated in light of the emergence and dominance of the newer types in dogs.
- As with rabies variants, the antigenic changes in CPV-2 do not affect the ability of various vaccines to protect dogs.
- First identified in 1977, this virus, which is related to the feline panleukopenia virus, usually strikes young, unvaccinated puppies under the age of 6 weeks, although all ages can be susceptible to infection.
Tags: Article Pets Animals Parvovirus Infection in dog
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