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Koi herpesvirus disease is a WOAH-notifiable viral infection of Cyprinus carpio caused by Cyprinid herpesvirus 3 that activates within permissive water temperatures of 16°C to 25°C, causing severe branchial necrosis, enophthalmos, and up to 80–100% pond mortality.
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae causes acute bacteremia in unvaccinated miniature pigs, inducing pathognomonic rhomboid urticarial skin plaques through dermal arteritis and microthrombosis, alongside high fever, proliferative synovitis, and vegetative valvular endocarditis.
Male pygmy and castrated wether goats possess a narrow sigmoid flexure and filiform urethral process prone to lodging struvite, apatite, or calcium carbonate uroliths promoted by high-grain phosphorus diets, rapidly risking uroabdomen and hyperkalemic arrest.
Polioencephalomalacia in goats results from ruminal thiaminase overgrowth or high-sulfur dietary toxicity that impairs ATP-dependent neuronal sodium-potassium pumps in cerebral gray matter, producing cortical laminar necrosis, dorsomedial strabismus, cortical blindness, and opisthotonus.
Salt poisoning in miniature pigs typically follows frozen or interrupted water access rather than excessive dietary sodium alone; hypernatremia traps idiogenic osmoles inside neurons, causing lethal cerebral edema and eosinophilic meningoencephalitis if rapid free water is offered.
When alpacas or llamas ingest terrestrial gastropods carrying third-stage Parelaphostrongylus tenuis larvae shed by white-tailed deer, aberrant parasite migration through the dorsal horns and spinal cord white matter causes destructive eosinophilic meningomyelitis and ascending pelvic ataxia.
Dropsy in Betta splendens is a clinical syndrome—not a single pathogen—reflecting terminal osmoregulatory failure and renal or hepatic compromise where extracellular fluid accumulation forces dermal scales outward into a characteristic pinecone conformation.
Selective breeding for globoid body shapes in fancy goldfish compresses the two-chambered physostomous swim bladder and pneumatic duct against the intestinal tract, predisposing fish to positive or negative buoyancy secondary to gut distension, aerocystitis, or renal cysts.
Cryptocaryon irritans is an obligate marine ciliated protozoan with a four-stage temperature-dependent life cycle whose burrowing trophonts destroy lamellar gill epithelium and epidermis, inducing severe mucus hypersecretion, hypoxia, and osmoregulatory failure.
Frequently misdiagnosed as a true Saprolegnia fungal infection, columnaris disease is caused by the aerobic gram-negative gliding rod Flavobacterium columnare, which produces chondroitin AC lyase to degrade gill cartilage and dorsal saddleback dermis.