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Parvoviruses are among the smallest viruses (hence the name, from Latin parvus meaning small) and are 18–28 nm in diameter. [16] Parvoviruses can cause disease in some animals, including starfish and humans. Because the viruses require actively dividing cells to replicate, the type of tissue infected varies with the age of the animal.
Anthrax in animals - Disease in various species caused by Bacillus anthracis. Caseous lymphadenitis - Disease in sheep and goats caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis - Causes above disease, and also ulcerative lymphangitis and other diseases in horses
Sporotrichosis is a fungal disease caused by Sporothrix schenckii that affects both dogs and humans. It is a rare disease in dogs, with cat and horse infections predominating in veterinary medicine. The disease in dogs is usually nodular skin lesions of the head and trunk. [22]
Pages in category "Animal viral diseases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 210 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Avian paramyxovirus - Only talks about virus that causes Newcastle disease. Needs information on other avian paramyxoviruses. Avian pneumovirus (also known as Turkey rhinotracheitis virus causing Swollen head syndrome; Canine distemper; Newcastle disease - Disease in poultry. Peste-des-petits-ruminants virus - Disease in sheep and goats. Substub.
The virus originated in cats, the vector of feline panleukopenia, but a mutation that changed just two amino acids in the viral capsid protein VP2 [14] allowed it to cross the species barrier, and dogs, unlike cats, had no resistance to the disease. [15] Canine distemper virus is closely related to measles virus and is the most important viral ...
While SARS was the No. 2 leading cause of deaths, at 922, it caused a significantly smaller amount of infections, mainly impacting Asia—as did the Machupo and Nipah viruses, which caused 529 ...
List of aquarium diseases; List of dog diseases; List of feline diseases; List of diseases of the honey bee; List of diseases spread by invertebrates; Poultry disease; Lists of zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that have jumped from an animal to a human