| Name of disease |
Cause |
Important features |
Drugs |
Remarks |
| Myxomatosis |
Virus (spread by rabbit fleas and mosquitoes) |
Inflammation and oedema of eyelids, ears, anal and genital orifices. Mucopurulent blepharo conjunctivitis Skin haemorrhages |
No effective treatment |
The disease causes 100 % mortality. Vaccination is practiced in many advanced countries. |
| Pasteurellosis |
Bacteria (Pasteurella multocida) |
Clinical forms that occur are sniffles, enzootic pneumonia, otitis media, abscess, septicaemia |
Sulpha quinoxaline, sulphadimidine |
|
| Coccidiosis |
Protozoa (Eimeria species) E.stiedae, E.magna, E.perforans |
Anorexia, debilitated condition, hepatomegaly, pendulous abdomen |
Sulpha- quinoxaline, sulphadimidine, Nitro-furazone |
|
| Mucoid enteritis (Mucoid enteropathy) |
Unknown cause (shift from neonatal to post- weaning nutritional substrates has been proposed as having a role in the pathogenesis) |
Diarrhoea with clear to viscid and mucoid consistency, dehydration |
No effective treatment |
|
| Blue breast (mastitis) |
Streptococcus or Staphylococcus species |
Bluish purple glands |
Antibiotics |
|
| Ear canker (ear mange) |
Psoroptes cuniculi |
Shaking head, scratching ears with legs, crusty exudate in the ear |
Benzyl benzoate (Ascabiol) for 2-3 days after removing the crusts and cleaning the ears. |
|
| Sore hock (ulcerative pododermatitis) |
Pressure necrosis of the skin usually resulting from the bearing of heavy body weight on wire floors of the cages |
Circumscribed ulcerated areas in the skin covered by dry crusty scab of the plantar surface of the metatarsal region, anorexia, loss of weight, humping of the back, tilted movements. |
Zinc and iodine ointments and 0.2%
solutions of aluminium acetate. Antibiotics parently to prevent secondary infections. |
|
| Ring worm |
Fungus (Trichophyton microsporon) |
Falling of hairs in patches resulting in areas of baldness |
Griseofulvin |
|
| Body mange |
Notedres cati |
Falling of hairs from the ears and nose. Scratching the ears and face with forelimbs. |
1. Benzyl benzoate (local application) 2. Ivermectin s/c injection at dose of 0.1 ml/5 kg body weight. |
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