Disease investigations and analysis
Experts in the health and welfare of companion animals summarise the clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment of selected diseases.
We are grateful to the key opinion leaders who kindly prepared these summaries and we hope that you find them useful insights into a range of diseases affecting companion animals.
Canine babesiosis
Canine babesiosis is a tick-borne and transmitted disease caused by apicomplexan haemoprotozoan parasites.
Fleas
Despite increased research and control products, fleas continue to infest homes and torment companion animals.
Feline immunodeficiency virus
Discovered in California in 1986 and now recognised in domestic cats worldwide.
Feline leukaemia virus
An oncogenic gammaretrovirus that infects domestic cats and some wild felids.
Flystrike in rabbits
A preventable condition, flystrike refers to damage done to skin when fly eggs are laid on its surface.
Bordetella bronchiseptica
A Gram negative, aerobic coccobacillus, that forms part of the ‘kennel cough’ or canine infectious respiratory disease complex.
Streptococcus zoopepidemicus
A Gram-positive, beta-haemolytic bacterium historically associated with opportunistic infections.
Tritrichomonas foetus
A single-celled protozoan parasite that lives within mucus covering the mucosa surface of the distal ileum, caecum and colon of cats.
Feline calicivirus
A small, non-enveloped, single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus, mainly shed in ocular, nasal, and oral secretions.
Canine enteric coronavirus
A ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus, where most infections result in mild clinical signs of enteritis, or subclinical infection.
Prolific vomiting in dogs
Details of an investigation into reports of acute onset prolific vomiting in dogs in various parts of the UK in 2020.
Rapid disease investigations
Unfunded disease investigations, using data captured from veterinary practices and diagnostic laboratories.