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Flea bite hypersensitivity is a puritan dermatosis due to an immediate and/or delayed cell mediated response to several proteins present in flea saliva.
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Hypersensitivity to ctenocephalides felis felis is probably the common cause skin disease in dogs and cats.
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Dermatophytosis is a fungal infection of the skin, hair or claw.
Etiology
Dermatophytosis is caused by infection with species of keratinophilic fungi. In cats the fungus comonly implicated is Microsporum canis an in the dogs it is Microsporum canis, Microsporum gypseum and Trichophyton Mentagrophytes.
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An acute infectious disease, fatal in the majority of cases, viral polioencephalitis of warm-blooded animals, including humans
Etiology
Rabies is produced by an ultramicroscopic virus. Rabies virus a single-stranded RNA virus, genus Lyssavirus, family Rhabdoviridae. Rabies is a characteristically is confined to one species in a given geographic area. This virus is found to be the most virulent when taken from the central nervous system (brain and cord), less so form the peripheral nerves, salivary another glands and their secretions.
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Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a unique viral disease of cats, unique in that the actual organ damage resulting from infection is not directly caused by the virus itself, but from the immune response to the invader. The Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) organism is classified as a coronavirus, belonging to same group of viruses that cause gastrointestinal disease in dogs. Cats actually can be infected with two types of coronavirus: the feline enteric coronavirus and the feline infectious peritonitis coronavirus. Although the former can cause severe gastroenteritis in affected cats, most cases are subclinical; that is, there are no apparent clinical signs caused by the infection. The importance of these enteric coronaviruses is not only that their presence in a feline can interfere with some standard testing procedures designed to diagnose Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) but also that the FIP coronavirus may actually be a mutation of the enteric coronavirus. If this is true, then all cats could be at risk of this disease.
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Certainly one of the most devastating diseases affecting cat populations around the world is feline leukemia. The feline leukemia virus belongs to a group of infectious agents known as retroviruses, and it shares some characteristics with the human AIDS virus. It can occur by itself, or in combination with the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) , a deadly AIDS-like virus that in itself has been spreading at an alarming rate in cats in recent years. Like the human AIDS virus, both of these feline diseases wreak havoc on the cat’s immune system, predisposing it to a wide variety of infectious diseases and to cancer. The feline leukemia virus can be transmitted via all bodily excretions from an infected cat.
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