Rabbit Infectious Diseases

Respiratory Tract

In a survey of 121 pet rabbits, the bacterial isolates were Pasteurella multocida (54.8%), Bordetella bronchiseptica (52.2%), Pseudomonas spp. (27.9%) and Staphylococcus spp. (17.4%). Snuffles was mainly due to a polybacterial infection, most frequently P. multocida and B. bronchiseptica (28.9% of rabbits).{4775}

	Upper	Lower	Other
Bordetella bronchiseptica		Bronchiolitis, interstitial pneumonia
CAR bacillus
Pasteurella multocida	Rhinitis, conjuntivitis	Pneumonia	Abscesses, infertility, death
Pneumocystis murina		Dyspnea	Weanlings; hi LDH, TGs

GI Tract

	Small intestine	Large intestine	Other
Tyzzer's disease		Diarrhea, explosive outbreaks, high mortality	Weaning, 6-12 weeks; classic triad gut/liver/heart
Colibacillosis	Diarrhea	Yellow fluid contents, attaching/effacing	Young, predisposing factors
Proliferative enteritis	Diarrhea	Diarrhea, hemorrhagic	Pallor; chronic: wt loss
Salmonella	Enteritis	Diarrhea	Septicemia, abortion, death
Clostridiosis	Enterocolitis	Typhlitis	Effusion, hemorrhage
Mucoid enteropathy	Jejunum: fluid	Colon: mucus; stomach: fluid	7-10 wk old
Rabbit oral papilloma			Tongue, 2-18 months
Rotavirus	Diarrhea		Weanlings, self-limiting
Obeliscoides cuniculi Graphidium Trichostrongylus			Stomach strongyles used for pathogenesis studies
Passaluris ambiguus Trichuris spp.		Cecum, colon
Eimeria stiedae	Diarrhea, wt loss		Bile stasis, hepatomegaly
Eimeria perforans, magna, media, irresidua	Diarrhea, intussusception	None	Wasting

Multifocal: tularemia, salmonellosis, yersiniosis, listeriosis (also abortions), staphylococcosis (pyoderma, septicemia, pneumonia, mastitis), Herpes sylvilagus (S. floridanus only), rabbit pox (historic), rabbit viral hemorrhagic disease, coronavirus (pulmonary, cardiomyopathy or enteric forms, extremely rare), aspergillosis, toxoplasmosis

ADR: leptospirosis (fever, then leptospiruria)

Skin: rabbit syphilis, Shope papilloma, myxomatosis (conjunctivitis, edema, myxomas), Shope fibroma (wild), ringworm, rabbit syphilis (treponematosis)

Nervous: human herpes simplex, encephalitozoonosis

Liver: fascioliasis

Muscle: sarcocystosis (Sylvilagus)

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