Zoonotic Dz | Symptoms | Etiological Agent | Transmission |
Rabies | Neurological, Generally fatal in people and domestic animals | Rabies VIRUS | Bite wounds, Hosts all mammals |
Contagious Ecthyma (Orf) | Pustular lesions or rash | parapoxVIRUS | Contact w/lesions or infected fomites Hosts, sheep, goats, wild ungulates |
Herpes B Virus | non-human; mild cold-sore, humans; Encephalities, actute adb pain, fever, diarrhea, 70% fatality | herpes VIRUS | contact w/lesions, aerosol (non-human primates) |
Equine Encephalomyelities | Neurologic | Arboviruses (EEE, WEE, VEE, West Nile) | Mosquitos are vectors, Horses/birds |
Anthrax | Cutaneious Form (Wool Sorters Dz) | Bacillus anthracis (BACTERIA) | Bite wound or direct exposure to spores (Cattle, sheep, goats, dogs humans |
Brucellosis | Undulent Fever | Brucella abortus | Contact with infected material (cattle, sheep, Goats, dogs) |
Cat Scratch Dz | Lymphadenities, Dermatitis, Septicimia | Bartonella Henselae | Bite or scratch Host: cats |
Leptospirosis | non-specific, icterus | Leptospira interrogans (BACTERIA) | contact w/infected urine Hosts: rodents ruminants, dogs, cats, people |
Plague | Bubonic-Lymph Nodes, Septicemic-whole body, pneumonic-lungs | Yersinia pestis (Bacteria) | Bites from fleas, Hosts: fleas of rats/rodents, occ dogs and cat fleas |
Psittacosis (parrot fever) | Generalize fever, flu | C. psittaci (bacteria, chlamydia) | Aerosol or fecal Host:
parrots, occ. poultry |
Bacterial Enteric Disease | GI, Septicemia, Local Infections (Diarrhea!!) | Salmonella, Shigella, Campylobacter | Fecal oral, ingestions of cntmntd food Hosts: repitles, birds, large animals, non-human primates |
Turberculosis | Respiratory, Septicemic | Mycobacterium bovis. M. TB, M. avium | Inhaled droplets Host: Cattle, birds, primates, humans |
Q-Fever | Flu | coxiella burnetti | Contaminated birth fluids (ruminants) aerosols or ingestin of infected milk/meat - ticks?
Host:cows, humans |
Tularemia | Flu Occ. fatal, pneumonia etc. | Francisella tularensis BACTERIA | Handling infec animals, tick bites
Hosts: wild rodents, lagomorps |
Lyme Disease | Flu, rash, polyarthritis, endocarditis | Borellia burgdorferi BACTERIA | Deer ticks Hosts: cats, dogs, cattle, horses, humans |
Erysipeloid | Animal-diamond skin Dz, Human-Inflammatory lesions/skin, septicemia | Eryslpelothris rhuslopathiae | Contamination of wounds while handling Hosts: swine, occ fish/poultry |
Rat Bite Fever | Acute febrile Dz, Inflamm. lymphadenopath, rash, complication; pneumomia, hepatitis, enteritis | Gram neg, pleomorphic strep | Infect by bite of infect rodent or via contaminated milk or food Hosts: Rats/Mice |
Toxoplasmosis | Abortion, Birth defects | Protozoan parasite | Ingestion/inhalation of oocysts, improperly prepared food Hosts: rodents, cats, birds, humans |
Cutaneious laraval Migrans | Intense PURITIS | Hookworms | Infect larva from soil Hosts: dogs cats |
Visceral larval Migrans | Allergic reaction, Infection/GI/Liver | Roundworms | Ingest of infective larvae from soil or close contact with animals Hosts: dogs cats |
Scabies | Intense puritis | Parsitic mite | contact with dogs esp. puppies Hosts: all mammals |
Dermatomycosis (Ringworm) | Pruritis, rash, circular lesions | Fungi, microsporum sp. | Direct contact Hosts: dogs cats occ large animals |
Vectors | Mechanical | Biological | Mechnanical: no life change
Bilogical: growth and devl of infectious agent/multiply or develop prior to becoming infective. |