Bacterial diseases
From Rabbit
Bacterial diseases affect all animals and rabbits are no less immune or unique to their onslaught. bacteria can cause varying ranges of illness in cattle from mild dermatitis to sepsis and death.
Appropriate antimicrobial therapy should be based on isolation and culture and sensitivity of causative bacteria.
Bacterial diseases in rabbits include:
- Anaplasma spp
- Bordetella spp - respiratory disease
- Borrelia spp
- Cilia-associated respiratory (CAR) bacillus
- - Flavobacterium ferrugineum and Flexibacter sancti[1]
- Clostridium spp - enterotoxemia, Tyzzer's disease
- Escherichia coli - enterotoxemia
- Francisella tularensis - Tularemia
- Listeria spp - abortion, hepatitis
- Mannheimia spp - pneumonia
- Pasteurella multocida - respiratory disease
- Treponema paraluis-cuniculi - Treponematosis
- Leptospira interrogans - Leptospirosis
- Staphylococcus spp - ulcerative pododermatitis, mastitis
- Streptococcus spp
- ↑ Wei Q et al (1995) Taxonomic status of CAR bacillus based on the small subunit ribosomal RNA sequences. Chin Med Sci J 10:195–198
