Cause

Important features

Drugs

Remarks

Myxomatosis

Virus (spread by rabbit fleas and mosquitoes)

Inflammation and oedema of eyelids, ears, anal and genital orifices. Mucopurulent blepharo conjunctivitis Skin haemorrhages

No effective treatment

The disease causes 100 % mortality. Vaccination is practiced in many advanced countries.

Pasteurellosis

Bacteria (Pasteurella multocida)

Clinical forms that occur are sniffles, enzootic pneumonia, otitis media, abscess, septicaemia

Sulpha  quinoxaline, sulphadimidine

Coccidiosis

Protozoa (Eimeria species) E.stiedae, E.magna, E.perforans

Anorexia, debilitated condition, hepatomegaly, pendulous abdomen

Sulpha- quinoxaline, sulphadimidine, Nitro-furazone

Mucoid enteritis (Mucoid enteropathy)

Unknown cause (shift from neonatal to post- weaning nutritional substrates has been proposed as having a role in the pathogenesis)

Diarrhoea with clear to viscid and mucoid consistency, dehydration

No effective treatment

Blue breast (mastitis)

Streptococcus or Staphylococcus species

Bluish purple glands

Antibiotics

Ear canker (ear mange)

Psoroptes cuniculi

Shaking head, scratching ears with legs, crusty exudate in the ear

Benzyl benzoate (Ascabiol) for 2-3 days after removing the crusts and cleaning the ears.

Sore hock (ulcerative pododermatitis)

Pressure necrosis of the skin usually resulting from the bearing of heavy body weight on wire floors of the cages

Circumscribed ulcerated areas in the skin covered by dry crusty scab of the plantar surface of the metatarsal region, anorexia, loss of weight, humping of the back, tilted movements.

Zinc and iodine ointments and 0.2%
solutions of aluminium acetate. Antibiotics parently to prevent secondary infections.

Ring worm

Fungus (Trichophyton microsporon)

Falling of hairs in patches resulting in areas of baldness

Griseofulvin

Body mange

Notedres cati

Falling of hairs from the ears and nose. Scratching the ears and face with forelimbs.

1. Benzyl benzoate (local application) 2. Ivermectin s/c injection at dose of 0.1 ml/5 kg body weight.