title: Diseases of guinea-pigs.
abstract: Information on diseases of guinea-pigs is generally available in research institutes and breeding establishments. When dealing with an individual patient it is tempting to extrapolate from this pool of information, without realising that a number of factors can affect the disease situation in a colony which need not apply to the individual animal kept as a pet--or vice versa. Thus diseases may appear as an explosive outbreak in a group of cavies kept under uniform conditions while a single animal may be exposed to amateur management (Townsend 1975) and suffer in consequence. The diseases generally encountered in this species are dealt with here as they appear clinically.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016782:Apicomplexa; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000662:veterinary; D002590:Cestode Infections / Q000662:veterinary; D004478:Ectoparasitic Infestations / Q000662:veterinary; D004751:Enteritis / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D005658:Fungi; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D008297:Male; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000662:veterinary; D009181:Mycoses / Q000662:veterinary; D009349:Nematode Infections / Q000662:veterinary; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000662:veterinary; D011529:Protozoan Infections, Animal; D012376:Rodent Diseases; D012481:Salmonella Infections, Animal; D012522:Sarcocystis; D012523:Sarcocystosis / Q000662:veterinary; D012614:Scurvy / Q000662:veterinary; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000662:veterinary; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000662:veterinary; D015012:Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infections / Q000662:veterinary