Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine/Bacteria and bacterial diseases

Stand alone veterinary medicine articles

Gram positive bacteria

• Corynebacterium bovis - Causes mastitis in cattle. Short stub.
• Corynebacterium renale - Causes bovine pyelonephritis. Missing info on the disease in sheep, in which it causes ulcerative posthitis and vulvitis (AKA sheath rot or pizzle rot). Short stub.
• Equine Lymphangitis - Caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.
• Listeriosis in animals - Disease in various species caused by Listeria monocytogenes.
• Mud fever - Caused by Dermatophilus congolensis. Disease in horses. Most of the article is copied from another website (apparently used by permission) and needs to be rewritten. Orphan, Unreferenced.
• Strangles - Caused by Streptococcus equi. Respiratory infection in horses.

Gram negative bacteria

• Brucella canis - short stub
• Columnaris
• Enteric redmouth disease - Caused by Yersinia ruckeri. Disease in fish. Stub.
• Flexibacter columnaris - Disease in fish. Short stub.
• Glanders - Caused by Burkholderia mallei. Disease in equines.
• Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis - Caused by Moraxella bovis. Stub
• Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale - Causes respiratory disease in poultry. Short stub.
• Mycoplasma adleri - causes infection in goats, resistant to normal antibiotics.Stub
• Swine brucellosis - Caused by Brucella suis. Dog and cattle brucellosis is covered under brucellosis, which is mainly about the human disease. Short stub, unreferenced.
• Withering abalone syndrome - Caused by "Candidatus Xenohaliotis californiensis". Stub.

Clostridial infections or toxins

• Botulism is discussed briefly at Polyneuropathy in dogs and cats, but is missing information on cats, horses, cows, and birds.
• Blackleg (disease) - Caused by Clostridium chauvoei. Disease in sheep and cattle. Short stub.
• Tyzzer's Disease - Caused by Clostridium piliforme. Describes it in rats and gerbils, missing info on horses and rabbits. Stub, Orphan.

Mycobacterium

• Johne's disease - Caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. Disease in ruminants.
• Mycobacterium bovis - Bovine tuberculosis.
• Mycobacterium lepraemurium - Feline leprosy. Stub.

Chlamydiae

• Chlamydophila abortus - Causes enzootic abortion of ewes, also causes it in cattle and goats. Stub.
• Chlamydophila caviae - Causes conjunctivitis in guinea pigs. Stub.
• Chlamydophila felis - Causes feline conjunctivitis and respiratory disease. Short stub.
• Chlamydophila psittaci - Causes avian chlamydiosis.
• Psittacosis - Caused by Chlamydophila psittaci.

Mycoplasmas

• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia - AKA lung plague. Caused by Mycoplasma mycoides mycoides. Stub.
• Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae - Causes porcine enzootic pneumonia.

Spirochetes

• Borrelia anserina - Causes avian spirochetosis or avian borreliosis. Stub.

Rickettsials

• Ehrlichiosis (canine) - Caused by Ehrlichia canis.
• Necrotising hepatopancreatitis - Disease in shrimp. Stub.
• Potomac Horse Fever - Caused by Neorickettsia risticii. Unreferenced.
• Salmon poisoning disease - Disease in dogs caused by Neorickettsia helminthoeca. Stub.
  • Also covers Elokomin fluke fever, caused by Neorickettsia elokominica.

Other articles which contain veterinary medicine information

Gram positive bacteria

• Actinomycosis - Brief mention of lumpy jaw in cattle. Missing information on dogs, sheep, pigs, and hamsters.

Gram negative bacteria

• Aeromonas hydrophila - Some discussion of infection of fish and amphibians.
• Bordetella bronchiseptica - Has a section on veterinary pathogenesis
• Brucellosis - Information on the disease in cattle and dogs. Missing sheep, goats, pigs (see above - swine brucellosis), marine mammals.

Mycobacterium

• Tuberculosis - A little information in cattle, but pretty much any other domestic species can be affected. Probably best to split these up among different species of Mycobacterium.

Spirochetes

• Leptospirosis (caused by Leptospira) - Contains information on the disease in dogs, missing horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, and pinnipeds. Already a little confusing due to the human and animal information being mixed, should probably separated into Leptospirosis in animals.

Important missing articles

These may link to existing articles, just no vet med info present.

Gram positive bacteria

• Anthrax in animals - Disease in various species caused by Bacillus anthracis.
• Caseous lymphadenitis - Disease in sheep and goats caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.
• Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis - Causes above disease, and also ulcerative lymphangitis and other diseases in horses and various problems in cattle. Also known as Pigeon breast, Pigeon fever, False strangles, and Dry land distemper. Separated from caseous lymphadenitis because that disease is very important on its own.
• Enterococcosis - Disease in poultry caused by Enterococcus sp.
• Erysipelas in animals - disease in various species caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.
• Exudative epidermitis - Disease in pigs caused by Staphylococcus hyicus.
• Rhodococcus equi - Important cause of pneumonia in foals.
• Streptococcal lymphadenitis - AKA cervical lymphadenitis or lumps, disease in guinea pigs.
• Streptococcus porcinus - Causes streptococcal lymphadenitis, jowl abscesses, and cervical abscesses in pigs.
• Streptococcus suis - Causes disease in pigs.
• Tick pyemia - Disease in sheep caused by Staphylococcus aureus.

Gram negative bacteria

• Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae - Pleuropneumonia in pigs.
• Bubonic plague in animals - Disease in dogs, cats, and prairie dogs caused by Yersinia pestis.
• Campylobacteriosis - Gastrointestinal disease in various species.
• Contagious equine metritis - Caused by Taylorella equigenitalis.
• Foal septicemia - Caused by various gram negative bacteria.
• Glässer’s disease - Disease in pigs caused by Haemophilus parasuis. AKA Porcine polyserositis, Infectious polyarthritis.
• Histophilosis - Disease in cattle caused by Histophilus somni (formerly Haemophilus somnus). AKA Thrombotic meningoencephalitis.
• Infectious coryza - Disease in chickens caused by Haemophilus paragallinarum,
• Lechiguana - Uncommon disease found in cattle in southeastern Brazil, caused by Mannheimia granulomatis.
• Mannheimia haemolytica - Pneumonia in various species.
• Proliferative enteritis - Disease in pigs, rabbits, ferrets, and hamsters caused by Lawsonia intracellularis. AKA Porcine intestinal adenomatosis, Proliferative hemorrhagic enteropathy, Ileitis, and wet tail.
• Q fever in animals - Disease in various species caused by Coxiella burnetii.
• Riemerella anatipestifer - AKA new duck disease, infectious serositis. disease in ducks and turkeys.
• Tularemia in animals - Disease in various species caused by Francisella tularensis.
• Turkey coryza - Caused by Bordetella avium.
• Yersinia pseudotuberculosis - Disease in rodents

E. coli

• Colisepticemia - Calf and lamb septicemia.
• Edema disease - In pigs.
• Enteric colibacillosis - Various species.
• Watery mouth disease - Disease in sheep. AKA Slavery mouth, Slavers, Rattle belly.

Pasteurella multocida

• Fowl cholera
• Hemorrhagic septicemia - Disease in cattle.
• Pasteurellosis in rabbits
• Pneumonic pasteurellosis - Disease in various species.

Salmonella

• Arizona disease - AKA paracolon disease, disease in turkeys caused by Salmonella arizonae.
• Fowl typhoid - Disease in poultry caused by Salmonella gallinarum.
• Paratyphoid infection - Diseases in poultry caused by various Salmonella.
• Pullorum disease - Disease in poultry caused by Salmonella pullorum.
• Salmonellosis in animals - Gastrointestinal disease and septicemia in various species and abortion in sheep caused by Salmonella sp.

Clostridial infections or toxins

• Bacillary hemoglobinuria - AKA red water disease. Disease in cattle, and occ. sheep and dogs caused by Clostridium haemolyticum (C novyi type D).
• Big head - Disease in sheep caused by Clostridium novyi, C sordellii, or rarely C chauvoei. May not be a very important disease, but definitely interesting.
• Clostridia-associated enterocolitis - Disease in horses.
• Clostridium difficile in swine - Diarrhea in swine neonates caused by Clostridium difficile.
• Clostridium perfringens enterotoxemia - Various diseases in different species, including Lamb dysentery, Calf enterotoxemia, Pig enterotoxemia, Foal enterotoxemia, Struck, Goat enterotoxemia, pulpy kidney disease, and overeating disease. Could be kept together or separated.
• Clostridium perfringens Type C enteritis - Fatal disease in pigs.
• Infectious necrotic hepatitis - AKA black disease, mainly found in sheep and caused by Clostridium novyi.
• Malignant edema - Disease in various species caused by Clostridium septicum.
• Quail disease - AKA ulcerative enteritis, caused by Clostridium colinum.
• Tetanus in animals - Tetanus in horses, dogs, cats, and birds.

Chlamydiae

• Chlamydial polyarthritis-serositis - Disease in various species caused by strains of Chlamydophila psittaci.
• Sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis - Caused by Chlamydophila pecorum.

Mycoplasmas

• Contagious agalactia - Disease in sheep and goats.
• Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
• Mycoplasmosis in poultry

Spirochetes

• Canine Lyme disease - Important disease in dogs, currently becoming more widespread across the country, has a commonly used vaccine. See Lyme disease in humans.
• Swine dysentery - AKA bloody scours, a disease in pigs caused by Brachyspira hyodysenteriae.
• Vent disease - AKA rabbit syphilis. Caused by Treponema paraluis cuniculi.

Rickettsials

• Anaplasmosis in animals - Disease in various species, includes equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis, and pasture fever in cattle, AKA tickborne fever.
• Bovine petechial fever - AKA ondiri disease, caused by Ehrlichia ondiri.
• Canine Rocky Mountain spotted fever - Caused by Rickettsia rickettsii.
• Eperythrozoonosis - Disease in various species caused by Eperythrozoon sp.
• Feline infectious anemia - AKA Hemobartonellosis.
• Heartwater - AKA cowdriosis, disease in cattle in Africa, caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium.