Bacterial diseases

From Felipedia

Chronic ulcerative panniculitis in a cat with Actinomycosis

Close up of feline leprosy (Mycobacterium spp) in a Domestic shorthair cat

Abscess and secondary cellulitis in a Domestic shorthair cat caused by Staphylococcus spp and co-infected with FIV. Courtesy Boehringer-Ingelheim, Australia

Anaerobiospirillum spp, showing elongated flagella, characteristic of this genus of bacteria

Bacterial diseases affect all animals and cats are no less immune or unique to their onslaught.

Common bacterial diseases in cats include:

• Actinobacillus spp - gingivitis and respiratory infections
• Actinomyces spp - systemic infections
• Anaerobiospirillum spp - enterocolitis
• Bacteroides spp - abscesses
• Bordetella bronchiseptica - respiratory disease (kennel cough)
• Burkholderia pseudomellei - ocular and pulmonary bacteria causing feline melioidosis in tropical regions
• Campylobacter spp - secondary diarrhoea
• Chlamydophila felis - conjunctivitis and rarely, respiratory disease
• Clostridium spp - diarrhoea, tetanus
• Corynebacterium spp - cellulitis, FLUTD
• Coxiella burnetti - Q fever
• E. coli - food spoilage diarrhoea
• Fusobacterium spp - normal oral flora but can cause cellulitis and pyothorax
• Haemoplasmas

Ehrlichia spp

Anaplasma spp

Mycoplasma spp (nee Haemobartonella spp)

Bartonella henselae - cat scratch disease

• Mycobacterium spp - leprosy and TB
• Neisseriaceae spp - acute respiratory disease
• Nocardia spp - systemic infections
• Pasteurella multocida - juvenile pustular dermatitis
• Penicillium spp - sinonasal abscesses
• Proteus spp - bacterial cystitis, paronychia and various other skin diseases
• Pseudomonas spp - associated with respiratory disease
• Rhodococcus spp - pyothorax, cellulitis and pyogranulomas
• Rickettsia spp - tick-borne fever
• Salmonella spp - food spoilage diarrhoea
• Shigella spp - rare cause of diarrhoea
• Spirochetes

Helicobacter spp - gastritis/gastric ulceration

Leptospira spp - feline leptospirosis

Borrelia burgdorferi and other spp - Lyme disease and possibly associated with lymphoma in cats^[1]

Flexispira spp - associated with lymphoma in cats^[2]

Treponema spp - undiagnosed in cats

• Staphylococcus spp. - superficial and systemic infections
• Streptococcal spp - neonatal mortality
• Francisella tularensis - tularemia
• Wolbachia spp - endosymbiontic bacteria living within D. immitis
• Yersinia pestis - cat plague