Chapter 47 Actinomycosis and Nocardiosis Jane E. Sykes Actinomycosis Etiology and Epidemiology Actinomycosis is a slowly progressive infection characterized by pleural and peritoneal exudates, dense fibrous masses, frank abscesses, meningoencephalitis/meningitis,…
Chapter 33 Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections Streptococcal Infections Craig E. Greene and John F. Prescott Streptococci are gram-positive, nonmotile, facultatively anaerobic cocci that cause localized to widespread pyogenic infections in animals…
Chapter 24 Arthropod-Borne Viral Infections All arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) known to infect dogs and cats belong to the families Togaviridae, Flaviviridae, Bunyaviridae, or Reoviridae (Table 24-1). These RNA viruses are…
Chapter 18 Papillomavirus Infections Claude Favrot Etiology Members of the genus Papillomavirus (PV) are small (30 to 60 nm) nonenveloped viruses with icosahedral symmetry and double-stranded circular DNA genome. They are…
Chapter 52 Bartonellosis Etiology Bartonella is a fastidious genus comprising at least 22 species and subspecies of small, curved, gram-negative hemotropic α-proteobacteria. Each has become highly adapted to preferential mammalian…
Chapter 39 Anaerobic Infections Craig E. Greene and Spencer S. Jang Etiology Obligate anaerobes can be gram-positive or gram-negative rods or cocci (Table 39-1). They cannot grow in the presence…
Chapter 87 Bacterial Respiratory Infections Tekla Lee-Fowler and Carol Reinero The respiratory system is divided into the upper and lower tracts and the pleural cavity. The upper respiratory tract consists…
Chapter 70 Laboratory Diagnosis of Protozoal Infections Susan E Little and David S. Lindsay Protozoa are responsible for some of the easiest, and also some of the most difficult, infections…
Chapter 27 Rocky Mountain and Mediterranean Spotted Fevers, Cat-Flea Typhuslike Illness, Rickettsialpox, and Typhus Craig E. Greene, Linda Kidd and Edward B. Breitschwerdt Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Etiology and Epidemiology…
