Condition index100 entries, A to Z.

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Acute Undifferentiated Diarrhea of Newborn Farm Animals — A general label for neonatal scours before the specific causative agent has been identified.
African horse sickness — A life-threatening hemorrhagic disease of horses and other equids, endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
Alimentary tract disease
Anthrax — An often peracute, highly fatal disease of grazing livestock, and a serious zoonosis.
Blight — A very common, highly contagious eye infection of cattle, spread by flies and direct contact.
Bluetongue — A viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants, most severe in sheep, spread by biting midges.
Bovine Mastitis (Contagious & Environmental) — Inflammation of the mammary gland, the most economically important disease of dairy cattle.
Bovine Mastitis (Udder Infection Dynamics & SCC Plotting) — Inflammation of the mammary gland, the most economically important disease of dairy cattle.
Bovine neonatal colibacillosis — A common cause of septicemia and death in newborn calves, especially those with inadequate colostrum intake.
Bovine polioencephalomalacia — A common neurologic disease of cattle.
Bovine Tuberculosis — A chronic, reportable bacterial disease of cattle, and a significant zoonosis.
BVDV Persistently Infected Carrier Eradication Program — A calf persistently infected in utero with BVD virus sheds the virus for life and is the main source of new…
Canine / Feline Epilepsy — Recurrent seizures from abnormal brain electrical activity.
Cervical Compressive Myelopathy (Cervical Stenotic Myelopathy / Wobbler Syndrome / Cervical Vertebral Instability) — "Wobbler syndrome" -- spinal cord compression in young, rapidly growing horses from malformed cervical…
Cervical compressive myelopathy (Cervical stenotic myelopathy, cervical vertebral instability) — "Wobbler syndrome" -- spinal cord compression in young, rapidly growing horses from malformed cervical…
Chronic Free-Gas Bloat — Persistent gas accumulation in the rumen when eructation is physically or neurologically blocked, rather than…
Contagious Agalactia — A disease of sheep and goats causing mastitis, conjunctivitis and arthritis, more complex in goats where…
Copper deficiency — A trace-mineral deficiency of grazing ruminants.
Coxiellosis — A bacterial infection of ruminants, usually subclinical in animals but a significant human zoonosis…
Cystitis — Bladder inflammation, most often from an ascending bacterial infection.
Deafness — Hearing loss present from birth, or developing later in life.
Dermatophytosis in Dogs and Cats — A contagious fungal skin infection, and a recognized zoonosis.
Dourine — A chronic venereal disease of horses, transmitted during mating.
Enterotoxaemia — A rapidly fatal toxemia of sheep and other ruminants, often with no premonitory signs.
Enzootic Abortion of Ewes — The single largest infectious cause of ovine abortion in several countries, and a significant human health…
Enzootic pneumonia of calves — A common cause of chronic respiratory disease in young cattle, from combined viral, environmental and…
Equine amnionitis and fetal loss — Mare reproductive loss syndrome: abortions, stillbirths and weak foals with inflammatory disease linked to…
Equine coital exanthema — A mild venereal viral disease of horses causing genital nodules and ulcers without systemic illness…
Equine Coronavirus Infection — An enteric viral infection of adult horses, usually self-limiting.
Equine Grass Sickness (Equine Dysautonomia) — A serious disease of horses with widespread degeneration of the autonomic nervous system
Equine Grass Sickness (Equine Dysautonomia, Grass Disease, and Mal Secco) — A serious disease of horses with widespread degeneration of the autonomic nervous system
Equine herpesvirus-1 and equine herpesvirus-4 infections — Common viral infections of horses ranging from mild respiratory disease to abortion or neurologic disease.
Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) — A bloodborne viral disease of equids, ranging from a subclinical carrier state to severe illness and death
Equine metabolic syndrome — A common endocrine condition of horses and ponies, a major risk factor for laminitis.
Equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis — A progressive scarring lung disease of adult horses.
Ethylene Glycol Toxicosis — A common and often fatal poisoning from ingesting antifreeze or other ethylene-glycol-containing products.
Failure of transfer of passive immunity — Not a disease itself but the underlying management failure behind much of neonatal farm animal illness.
Fasciolosis — A parasitic liver disease of grazing ruminants, acquired from wet pasture carrying an intermediate snail host.
Fears, Phobias, and Separation Anxiety — Behavioral conditions, not physical diseases, arising from an animal's emotional response to a stimulus or…
Glanzmann Thrombasthenia — 1. A 2. n 3. 4. i 5. n 6.
Heartwater (Cowdriosis) — A tick-borne rickettsial disease of ruminants, endemic where the Amblyomma tick vector is found.
Hendra virus infection — A rare but frequently fatal viral respiratory disease of horses in Australia, transmissible to people.
Histophilus Septicemia of Cattle — A bacterial cause of pneumonia and systemic disease in feedlot cattle, part of the bovine respiratory disease…
Hypoglycin A intoxication — A frequently fatal muscle disease of grazing horses ("atypical myopathy"), most common in autumn.
Hypokalemia — Low blood potassium, most often from reduced intake combined with ongoing losses.
Ichthyophthiriasis — A common and potentially fatal parasitic disease of freshwater fish, causing visible white skin spots.
Japanese B virus infection — A mosquito-borne viral disease causing reproductive losses in pigs and encephalitis in horses.
Leptospirosis in Dogs — A bacterial infection of dogs ranging from subclinical to acute kidney injury or death.
Lightning strike and electrocution — Sudden death or severe injury from a direct electrical current.
Listeriosis — An acute, often rapidly fatal neurologic disease of ruminants, classically linked to poor-quality silage.
Lumpy Jaw and Wooden Tongue — Two related but distinct chronic bacterial infections of cattle -- one of bone, one of soft tissue.
M. haemolytica infection — A bacterial respiratory infection, a major component of the bovine/equine respiratory disease complex.
Malignant catarrh — A fatal lymphoproliferative disease of cattle and other susceptible ungulates, transmitted from an…
Mare reproductive loss syndrome — A regional cause of late-term abortion and early fetal loss in mares, linked to a specific caterpillar…
Mastitis of Goats — Udder inflammation in dairy goats, with a different typical pathogen profile than cattle.
Mastitis of Sheep — Udder inflammation in ewes, ranging from subclinical to a severe, sometimes gangrenous form.
Melioidosis — A bacterial infection of both animals and people, endemic in soil and water across southeast Asia and…
Menangle virus infection — A rare zoonotic viral disease first identified in an Australian pig herd, causing severe reproductive losses.
Multisystemic, eosinophilic, epitheliotropic disease — A rare, serious multi-organ disease of adult horses.
Neosporosis — A major cause of abortion in cattle, transmitted congenitally or from dog feces contaminating feed.
Neosporosis (Neospora caninum) — A major cause of abortion in cattle, transmitted congenitally or from dog feces contaminating feed.
Nutritional Myodegeneration — A degenerative disease of cardiac and skeletal muscle in young, rapidly growing farm animals.
Pasteurellosis of Swine — Bacterial bronchopneumonia of pigs, usually secondary to another respiratory infection.
Phytoestrogen toxicosis — A reproductive disorder of grazing sheep and cattle from estrogen-mimicking plant compounds.
Porcine epidemic diarrhea — A highly contagious viral diarrheal disease of pigs, with mortality that can exceed 60% in naive neonatal…
Porcine failure to thrive — A poorly understood, multifactorial syndrome causing growth retardation and debilitation in weaned pigs.
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) — A major viral disease of pigs causing reproductive failure in sows/boars and respiratory disease in growing…
Purpura Hemorrhagica Myopathy — An immune-mediated vasculitis of horses, most often appearing 1-2 weeks after apparent recovery from…
Rabies — An almost universally fatal viral disease of the nervous system, transmissible to any mammal including humans.
Radiation injury — Tissue damage from excessive exposure to ionizing radiation.
Recumbency of undetermined etiology — A general clinical label for an animal unable to rise when no specific cause has yet been identified.
Refeeding Syndrome — A potentially fatal metabolic complication of reintroducing food too quickly after prolonged starvation.
Rinderpest — A once-devastating cattle plague, globally eradicated in 2011 -- the first livestock disease ever eradicated.
Rupture of the Bladder — Urine leaking into the abdominal cavity from a torn or ruptured urinary tract.
Salmonellosis — A common cause of diarrheal disease and septicemia across most domestic species, and a significant zoonosis.
Schmallenberg viral epidemic — An insect-borne viral disease causing congenital deformities in newborn ruminants after in-utero infection.
Scrapie — A fatal, slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease of sheep and goats -- the original discovered prion…
Secondary copper poisoning — Chronic copper toxicosis in sheep and cattle stays hidden in the liver until a sudden release of stored…
Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia of Kids — A joint infection of young goat kids, usually arising from bacteria entering via the umbilicus.
Septic Arthritis of Neonatal Foals — A joint infection in newborn foals, usually arising as one manifestation of generalized neonatal sepsis.
Septicemia and Thrombotic Meningoencephalitis in Sheep Associated With Histophilus somni — A systemic bacterial disease that can spread from the bloodstream to the brain, heart and joints.
Septicemic Pasteurellosis of Cattle — The most economically important bacterial disease of water buffalo and cattle in tropical Asia, often…
Stephanurus dentatus kidney infestation — A parasite of wild, feral and outdoor pigs in warm climates, usually subclinical but able to impair growth…
Strangles — A highly contagious bacterial disease of horses causing abscesses in the upper respiratory lymph tissue.
Stray voltage injury — Low-level electrical current in animal housing that mainly affects dairy cows and swine, often causing…
Subacute Ruminal Acidosis / Grain Overload — A digestive disturbance from excess rapidly fermentable carbohydrate reaching the rumen.
Surra — A wasting disease of horses, camels and cattle transmitted mechanically by biting flies.
Swine Vesicular Disease — A mild viral vesicular disease of pigs, clinically indistinguishable from foot-and-mouth disease and…
Tetanus — A frequently fatal neurotoxic disease following wound contamination, especially deep or contaminated wounds…
Thin Sow Syndrome — Progressive, unexplained weight loss in breeding sows.
Transmissible Gastroenteritis (TGE) — A highly contagious viral diarrheal disease affecting pigs of all ages.
Tuberculosis in Nonhuman Primates — A serious, often fatal bacterial disease of captive nonhuman primates, and a significant zoonosis.
Tularemia — A bacterial disease affecting a very wide range of wild and domestic species, most often transmitted by tick…
Ulcerative Lymphangitis — Chronic abscesses along the lymphatic chains of the limbs in horses and cattle.
Urolithiasis in Horses — Formation of mineral stones in the urinary tract of horses, less common than in ruminants.
Vaginal and Cervicovaginal Prolapse — Protrusion of the vaginal wall, most common in pregnant ewes and cows in late gestation.
Watery Mouth of Lambs — A neonatal lamb condition of drooling and gut stasis in the first days of life.
Weak calf syndrome — A newborn calf too weak to stand and nurse normally, from any of several possible underlying causes.
Wesselsbron disease — A mosquito-borne viral disease of sheep, cattle and goats in sub-Saharan Africa, most severe in newborn lambs…
Yersiniosis — A bacterial cause of diarrheal disease in ruminants and other species, more common in cold, wet conditions.