Panleukopenia — an infectious disease cat's, proceeding sharply, followed by fever, violation of work of digestive tract, symptoms of cardiovascular insufficiency and often coming to an end with death of an animal.
Panleukopenia - an infectious gastroenteritis or plague of animals. The disease has some features: mass character - all cats are subject to this pathology, irrespective of breed; the seasonality - begins in the early spring, reaches peak in the summer and gradually falls down by winter; the age indicator — the maximum susceptibility to a virus is observed at kittens from 3 months to 1 year and adult cats have 8-9 years.
Causes of panleukopenia
The causative agent of a disease — parvovirus, the having size from 20 to 25 nanometers and pH, resistant to change, heating, action of air, chloroform, pepsin and trypsin. The microbe keeps the viability in the external environment the whole year thanks to what it is widespread in the nature.
Infection source - patients or the cats who had a disease who allocate viruses to the external environment with an emetic masses or excrements. The first clinical signs appear after hit of a virus in kcal of a cat. Infection of a parvovirusama of the upper airways is possible during vomiting and further spread of a virus with an airborne way. The inoculable mechanism of transfer of a virus is carried out by means of blood-sicking insects — fleas. Infection quite often occurs in the pre-natal way.
Clinical manifestations of panleukopenia
The incubation period begins with the moment of infection of a cat, lasts before manifestation of the first symptoms of a disease and is about 10 days. The expressiveness of clinical signs and the course of panleukopenia depends on age of cats, pathogenicity of a virus and a condition of the immune system of an animal. The disease begins sharply with sharp deterioration in a condition of a cat, failure of a forage, vomiting, temperature increase of a body to 41 wasps. At the same time emetic masses has greenish color with impurity of blood or slime. Urine gains dark yellow or light orange color, excrements contain blood, become liquid and fetid. The disease is followed by dryness of mucous membranes, conjunctivitis and rhinitis. The sick animal looks for the secluded, cool place, lies on a stomach, throws back the head and extends extremities. Elderly cats badly carry a disease. They have damp rattles, the pulmonary edema develops, spasms are noted. Often panleukopenia comes to an end with sudden death of animals.
Treatment of panleukopenia
Treatment of panleukopenia symptomatic: veterinarians use corticosteroids, antibiotics of a broad spectrum of activity, an injection of isotonic solution for restoration of an amount of water and vitamins B an organism. The sick cat needs a diet with restriction of carbohydrates and sufficient protein content. At the beginning of a disease the animal is given low-fat meat broth with pieces of bread and fermented milk products. Since the day before yesterday include fish, fast beef in the boiled and crushed look in a diet.