Feline Respiratory Disease

1
Feline Respiratory Disease
2
Feline Respiratory DiseaseInfectious Agents

• Viral Feline Rhinotracheitis-(Herpesvirus)
• Feline Calicivirus
• Bacterial Bordatella bronchiseptica
• Chlamydophila felis

3
Feline Infectious Respiratory Disease

• Very common disease in animal shelters.
• Other locations where cats are housed in close
  quarters such as kennels or breeding facilities
  (catteries).
• Viral respiratory disease can lead to a chronic
  carrier states. Stress can cause reactivation of
  virus.
• Secondary infections (bacterial) are common.
• Seen in chronically ill Felv cats

4
Feline Respiratory DiseaseSymptoms

• Fever
• Rhinitis with discharge and Sneezing
• Conjunctivitis with runny eyes
• /- Ocular and Oral ulcers
• /- Secondary pneumonia
• /- Inutero infections with possible abortion.

5
Infectious Feline Respiratory Disease
6
(No Transcript)
7
Infectious Respiratory Disease
8
Viral Respiratory Disease
9
Feline Respiratory DiseaseDiagnosis

• Symptoms-Acute or chronic sneezing, runny eyed
  cats
• Conjunctival Scrapings (Chlamydia)
• Culture (Bacterial)
• Virus isolation
• PCR ??

10
Feline Respiratory DiseaseTreatment and
Prevention

• Broad spectrum antibiotics to prevent secondary
  bacterial infections.
• Lysine for herpes virus
• Ophthalmic antibiotics
• Ophthalmic antiviral medications (herpes virus)
• Good Supportative nutritional care
• Prevention Vaccination
• 8 weeks followed by 12 weeks ( 12 weeks best).
• Annual boosters for at risk cats (outside cats,
  boarders)

11
Feline Respiratory DiseasePrognosis

• Most cats survive with medication and nutritional
  support.
• Felv cats have a more protracted disease

12
(No Transcript)
13
Feline Panleukopenia

• Feline Distemper
• Cat Fever
• Agranulocytosis

14
Infectious AgentFeline Panleukopenia

• Feline Parvo virus Closely related to canine
  Parvo virus and mink enteritis.

Single-stranded Non enveloped DNA
15
Feline Distemper

• First written about in literature in 1939
• Received more attention in the 1960s
• Affects members of the Felidae family
• Also infects the mink, ferret(?) and raccoons
• Virus is stable in the environment.
• Highly contagious and has a high mortality rate.

16
Feline DistemperSymptoms

• Acute, high fever
• Vomiting and Diarrhea frequently with blood.
• Dehydration.
• Anorexia (not eating), Depression
• Deathcan have a high mortality
• Neurological symptoms in young kittens
  (cerebellar hypoplasia) Congenital

17
Feline DistemperDiagnosis

• Symptoms of acute fever, vomiting and diarrhea in
  young unvaccinated kittens.
• Severe pancytopenia.
• Fecal antigen immunoassayCite, only licensed for
  canine parvo virus.
• Virus isolation
• Serology, rising antibody titers

18
Feline DistemperTreatment

• Fluid therapy
• Broad Spectrum antibiotics
• Blood Transfusions

19
Feline DistemperPrevention

• Vaccination with modified live vaccine at
• 8-9 weeks and repeat
• 12-13 weeks
• Vaccines are very reliable and have greatly
  reduced the occurrence of feline distemper world
  wide.