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. 2014 Jun 25:626–645. doi: 10.1016/B978-1-4557-7397-8.00063-3

TABLE 63-11.

Selected Differential Diagnoses for Nondomestic Bovids and Pronghorns

Viral Bacterial Parasitic Fungal
MULTISYSTEMIC DISEASES
  • Adenovirus

  • Bluetongue virus

  • Bovine viral diarrhea

  • Epizootic hemorrhagic disease

  • Encephalomyocarditis

  • Malignant catarrhal fever

  • Anaplasmosis

  • Anthrax

  • Chlamydiophilosis

  • Leptospirosis

  • Besnoitiosis

  • Toxoplasmosis

  • Cestodiasis

  • Aspergillosis

  • Blastomycosis

  • Candidiasis

  • Coccidioidomycosis

  • Cryptococcosis


RESPIRATORY SYSTEM DISEASES
  • Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis

  • Parainfluenza (PI-3)

  • Bovine respiratory syncytial virus

  • Mycoplasmosis

  • Pasteurellosis

Lungworm (Dictyocaulus, Protostrongylus) Aspergillosis

GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM DISEASES
  • Coronavirus

  • Rotavirus

  • Clostridium perfringens (A, B, C, E)

  • Colibacillosis

  • Campylobcter jejuni

  • Yersinia spp.

  • Salmonella spp.

  • Amebiasis

  • Coccidiosis

  • Cryptosporidiosis

  • Giardiasis

  • Nematodiasis

  • Liver flukes

  • Rumen flukes

Candidiasis

REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES
  • Akabane virus

  • Infectious pustular vulvovaginitis (BHV-1)

  • Brucellosis

  • Q fever

  • Campylobacter foetus

  • Neosporosis

  • Trichomoniasis


INTEGUMENTARY/MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM DISEASES
  • Contagious echthyma (parapox)

  • Poxvirus

  • Actinomycosis

  • Corynebacterium

  • Pseudomonas spp.

  • Fusobacterium spp.

  • Staphylococcus spp.

  • Streptococcus spp.

  • Arcanobacterium pyogenes

  • Blackleg/gangrene

  • (Clostridium spp.)

  • Parafilariasis

  • Scabies

  • Ticks

  • Lice

  • Warbles, bots, grubs

  • Screwworm

  • Flies

  • Sarcocystosis

  • Dermatophytosis

  • Dermatophilosis

  • Sporotrichosis


NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES
  • Spongiform encephalopathy*

  • Eastern equine encephalitis

  • Equine herpesvirus

  • Rabies

  • Listeriosis

  • Tetanus

Meningeal worm

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM DISEASES
Eperythrozoonosis
  • Babesiosis

  • Cytauxzoonosis

  • Trypanosomiasis

  • Theileriosis

*

Prion disease.