Chapter 49 Dermatophilosis Craig E. Greene Etiology and Epidemiology Dermatophilosis (cutaneous streptothricosis) is an exudative skin disease caused by the branching filamentous actinomycete Dermatophilus congolensis. It replicates by hyphalt growth…
Chapter 71 Antiprotozoal Chemotherapy Craig E. Greene Table 71-1 summarizes the indications for current antiprotozoal drugs. See Chapters 72 to 81 for details about chemotherapy for specific diseases. Dosages of…
Chapter 14 Feline Respiratory Disease Rosalind M. Gaskell, Susan Dawson and Alan Radford Etiology Feline infectious respiratory disease is most commonly seen in cats that are grouped together, as in…
Chapter 32 Nonhemotropic Mycoplasmal, Ureaplasmal, and L-Form Infections Craig E. Greene and Victoria J. Chalker Nonhemotropic Mycoplasmal and Ureaplasmal Infections Etiology Mycoplasmas, the smallest free-living microorganisms, are prokaryotes within the…
Chapter 12 Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Rance K. Sellon and Katrin Hartmann Etiology Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), a lentivirus that shares many properties characteristic of other lentiviruses such as human…
Chapter 29 Laboratory Diagnosis of Bacterial Infections Brenda C. Love and Robert L. Jones The purpose of clinical bacteriology is to provide rapid and accurate information concerning the presence or…
Chapter 34 Staphylococcal Infections J. Scott Weese Etiology Staphylococci represent a diverse genus of facultatively anaerobic bacteria that belong to the family Micrococcaceae. They are gram-positive, catalase-positive cocci that tend…
Chapter 21 Pseudorabies Diana Henke and Marc Vandevelde Etiology Pseudorabies virus (PRV), also known as porcine herpesvirus-1, is an enveloped DNA virus and an α-herpesvirus. As with other herpesviruses, PRV…
Chapter 19 Miscellaneous Viral Infections Hantaviral Infection Craig E. Greene and Bruno B. Chomel Etiology Hantaviruses are enveloped spherical RNA viruses in the family Bunyaviridae, which contains three other major…
Chapter 23 Influenza Virus Infections Thomas W. Vahlenkamp, Craig E. Greene and Katrin Hartmann Influenza viruses are in the family Orthomyxoviridae, negative-sense, single-stranded, segmented RNA viruses that infect a variety…
