Diseases

Feline Panleukopenia

A highly contagious DNA virus infection of the cat family, characterized by fever, enteritis and bone marrow changes. It is also called feline ataxia, feline agranulocytosis, feline infectious enteritis, cat fever, cat plague, and show fever. It is caused by FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA VIRUS or the closely related MINK ENTERITIS VIRUS or CANINE PARVOVIRUS.

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Abstract

A highly contagious DNA virus infection of the cat family, characterized by fever, enteritis and bone marrow changes. It is also called feline ataxia, feline agranulocytosis, feline infectious enteritis, cat fever, cat plague, and show fever. It is caused by FELINE PANLEUKOPENIA VIRUS or the closely related MINK ENTERITIS VIRUS or CANINE PARVOVIRUS.

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Synonyms

29 entry terms
  • Agranulocytosis, Feline
  • Ataxia, Feline
  • Cat Plague
  • Distemper, Feline
  • Feline Ataxia
  • Feline Infectious Enteritis
  • Panleukopenia, Feline
  • Show Fever
  • Agranulocytoses, Feline
  • Ataxias, Feline
  • Cat Plagues
  • Distempers, Feline
  • Enteritides, Feline Infectious
  • Enteritis, Feline Infectious
  • Feline Agranulocytoses
  • Feline Agranulocytosis
  • Feline Ataxias
  • Feline Distemper
  • Feline Distempers
  • Feline Infectious Enteritides
  • Feline Panleukopenias
  • Fever, Show
  • Fevers, Show
  • Infectious Enteritides, Feline
  • Infectious Enteritis, Feline
  • Panleukopenias, Feline
  • Plague, Cat
  • Plagues, Cat
  • Show Fevers

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Aspects Covered

33 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

don't forget also CATS (NIM) & check tag ANIMALS

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History Note

97; was FELINE INFECTIOUS ENTERITIS 1970-96

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Previous Indexing

  • Cat Diseases (1966-1969)
  • Virus Diseases (1966-1969)

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Tree Numbers

  1. C01w.925w.256.700.363
  2. C22w.180.460

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Feline Panleukopenia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005254. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005254
  2. Feline Panleukopenia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18975615