CANINE CINOMOSE

What is Canine Cinomose?

Canine Cinomose is a disease caused by virus (family Paramyxoviridae)  and your transmission is for the air, mainly through the aerosois of secretions of the infected animals, that can eliminate the virus for several months.

The virus is sensitive to solvents lipids and most of the disinfectants and it is out unstable of the organism of the host. The nestlings become more susceptible to the virus when they reduce your titles of maternal antibodies originating from the colostro, this happens on average starting from to 6a. week. The disease happens more frequently in young dogs, however dogs of all the ages can be infected.

Clinical signs

The clinical signs, duration and gravity of the disease will depend on some such factors as: state imunológico of the animal, virulence of the stump, affected organs for the virus among others. The clinical signs can or not to follow a chronology, however Cinomose is usually a sharp and feverish disease. This fever is two-phase, tends a feverish nick from 3 to 6 days after the infection and it lasts from 1 to 3 days. The second prick feverish it happens some days or weeks after the first and it can last one week or plus, in this phase they can also appear symptoms at level of the treatments gastrointestinais and breathing. Through exams laboratories of the blood, the veterinary doctor, it will already be able to observe some alterations.

At breathing level the more common clinical symptoms are: running nasal mucopurulento; nasal discharges; dispnéia, accumulate of material mucopurulento in the song medial of the eyes; cough drought that can become humid and productive, apathy and anorexia (loss of the appetite).

At level of the treatment gastrointestinal the signs commonly found they are: vomits and diarrheas could be these catarrais e/ou hemorrágicas.

With the worsening of the disease, it can happen the emergence of nervous sintomatologia when the nervous system is affected. Starting from this moment the recovery probability becomes more remote, existing a range of neurological symptoms, such as: convulsions, weakness and paralysis of the members, mainly the subsequent ones, symptoms cerebelares (tremors of head, hipermetria) and vestibulares(cabeça pêndula, ataxia, nistagmo).

He still happens located contraction of a muscle or group of muscles (tics, spasms), convulsive attacks characterized by movements of mastication of the jaw with salivation, that you/they become more frequent and record. It is still observed movements of walking in I circulate and " to pedal ", usually with urination and involuntary defecation.

The course of the disease can be fast (10 days) or to be prolonged per weeks e/ou months. The animals that survive Cinomose, they will usually be able to recover, or then, to have sequels for the rest of your lives, everything will depend on the gravity of the disease.

Cinomose is a disease that can be avoided, it is enough that it is followed the vaccines correctly starting from 45 days, consult your veterinarian.