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| Involving primary target organ and multiple body systems (throughout body) |
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| Feline Infectious Peritonitis, corona virus, effusive or non-effusive forms. Starts as feline enteric coronavirus which is mild to subclinical and in some cats mutates to FIP (but not ALL) |
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| Wet form, vasculitis, ascites, pleural effusion, anorexia, depression, wt. loss |
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| Dry form, wt loss, fever, cs based on what organs are being affected |
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| See hyperglobulinemia, cytology of abdominal/pleural fluids has a HIGH protein content |
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| Intranasal, 50-75% effective in unexposed cats, give to at-risk cats only, vaccine induces serum ab titers so cat will have INCREASED titers |
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| Toxoplasma gondii, intracellular coccidian parasite, cats are ONLY definitive host, humans and other mammals can be intermediate hosts |
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| Toxoplasmosis transmission |
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| ingestion of contaminated raw meat from an intermediate host (rodent), fecal-oral route, transplacental |
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| Ways to avoid transmission to humans |
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| Cook meats thoroughly (more likely to get through raw meat than cats), clean litter box DAILY and wear gloves or have someone do it for you, wear gloves when gardening, cover sandboxes, keep cats indoors, do not handle unfamiliar cats |
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| Tick borne disease, tick must be attached for 48 hrs to transmit, many organs can be affected, but lameness is mc cs. Also see polyarthritis, fever, anorexia, lethargy, lymphadenopathy, myocardial abnormalities, nephritis |
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