Sentences with word «cytauxzoonosis»

After examining the unexplained deaths of several cats in the state, the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine's Animal Health Center revealed that their death was due to an infection called cytauxzoonosis.

«The number of cases of feline tularemia and cytauxzoonosis in the region diagnosed at the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have increased steadily over the years, at least partly owing to the wider geographic distribution of Amblyomma americanum, or the lone star tick,» Raghavan said.

Raghavan said the best - known diseases resulting from pathogens transmitted by the lone star tick include human monocytic ehrlichiosis and human ewingii ehrlichiosis, tularemia, southern tick - associated rash illness and feline cytauxzoonosis.

Slower - moving and larger in size, ticks attach themselves to cats and feed off their blood, spreading serious illnesses, like Cytauxzoonosis or Lyme disease.

For example: A Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) carries Tularemia disease, Ehrlichiosis, Tick Paralysis and on cats can transmit Cytauxzoonosis.

«For any cat that spends any time outdoors where cytauxzoonosis occurs, I can't imagine why you wouldn't give your cat protection,» he adds.

Ticks can transmit a disease called cytauxzoonosis (pronounced sight - oh - zo - uh - nosis) to cats.

Cats are susceptible to the rapidly deadly disease, Cytauxzoonosis, from the bite of a Lone Star Tick.

A: The scientific name for this disease is a mouthful: cytauxzoonosis.

Their promising studies have «raised the Cytauxzoonosis survival rate from less than 25 percent to 60 percent,» according to the North Carolina State website.

A cloud of doom cast over the clear spring skies of Georgia five years ago when a fatal cat disease, Cytauxzoonosis — which can lead to severe malnutrition, dehydration and more — swept through the state's northern region.

Here's a hit list of tick diseases that can make cats very sick: Cytauxzoonosis (sometimes called bobcat fever), Ehrlichiosis, Haemobartonellosis, Babesiosis and Tularemia.

The ticks Catego kills may transmit a number of diseases, including Lyme disease, Cytauxzoonosis, Haemobartonellosis, Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis and Anaplasmosis

Various species of dog ticks can transmit Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, to which cats may be susceptible, and the big baddie, cytauxzoonosis («Bobcat fever»), which is a very severe and often fatal illness.

Cytauxzoonosis is actually caused by two parasites.

Ticks can transmit certain diseases to cats including Babesia, Mycoplasma, and Cytauxzoonosis.

Diseases from other animals and from the environment (rabies, distemper, feline leukemia, feline AIDS, feline infectious peritonitis, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, cytauxzoonosis, ringworm, and hundreds of other infectious organisms you've never heard of).

Cats are susceptible to one known tick - borne disease, it's called cytauxzoonosis.