Canine Distemper
 Synonym :
 Carre’s Disease
 Hard-pad disease
 Old dog encephalitis
 CD is a highly contagious, systemic, viral disease of
dogs, characterized by a diphasic fever, leukopenia, GI
and respiratory catarrh, and frequently pneumonic and
neurologic complications.
• Canine distemper virus – Pantropic – SS RNA
• Genus: Morbillivirus
• Family: Paramyxoviridae
ICH
Infectious canine hepatitis
 Synonym :
 Rubarth’s disease
 Hepatitis contagiosa canis
 Fox encephalitis
• Canine adenovirus 1 – dS DNA virus
• Genus: Mastadenovirus
• Family: Adenoviridae
• Tropism for endothelium, mesothelium and
hepatocytes
• Primarily a disease of young Dog / Canine (< 2
year)