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Fungal infections are those which affect the outer layer of the skin of the humans and the dogs which are sometimes difficult to cure but they are not considered to be dangerous. Ring worm is considered to be the most commonly occurring fungal disease. Dog fungal infections need not change the appearance of the dog by causing little toadstools with red hats and white dots on top of the dog but they can cause anything from skin irritation to damages of internal organs.

The fungi affecting dogs can be divided into two categories pathogenic fungi and opportunistic fungi where pathogenic fungus occurs on the healthy dogs while opportunistic fungus occurs on dogs already affected by bacterial or viral diseases. The symptoms of the dog fungal infections vary with the time and the part affected from it and a vet can also identify the disease and find out which part is affected and can cure it.

Anti-fungal treatments are available for the dogs which are affected on the basis of the fungi caused and the level to which the disease has spread over the dog’s body. The disease can be prevented by protecting the dog from going to the soil areas from where fungi starts growing and also by protecting the dogs from entering to the bird nest areas which spread the disease.

Humans have more resistance to fight against diseases than that of animals but also they often get affected by diseases especially viral diseases which are even smaller than the bacteria but it causes lot of hazards which are very difficult to cure.

The main function of the virus is to reproduce their own generation once they enter in to the cell of any organism and once when they enter into the cell of a dog it creates serious problems in the dog’s health. Dog viral infection seems to be the deadliest disease in dogs once they enter in to its body as it gets stuck in to the cells which then multiply continuously which stops the proper functioning of the cells. Once when the dogs are affected by the viral diseases it may last for longer periods which even reduce the life span of the dogs.

Dog viral infections may be of various types as the causes of it rapidly increases in the present world. Parvoviruses, Distemper, Canine Hepatitis are some of the major dog viral infections which affect the dog’s life to a large and once they are affected by the viral infections they get various ailments such as diarrhea, dehydration and various other diseases affecting the brain, skin, eyes, respiratory system, kidney, liver etc.

Dogs must be taken proper care by providing them with proper vaccinations and their immune system must be well maintained by providing them with nutritious foods to fight against the infections.

Bacteria’s are organisms bigger than the viruses which are present in both humans and dogs on their skin which is present in order to protect the immune system with the resistance power. Bacteria’s are both pros and cons as they provide the resistance power but they also affect the dogs severely once they area affected by the dog bacterial infections.

Bacterial infections are very dangerous as once they affect the health of the dog it spreads to various parts of the dogs body which cause infections in their skin, eye, ear, urinary tract, kidneys or nervous and respiratory system. Dog bacterial infections may be of skin infections, Leptospirosis Infection, Brucellosis Infection, Actinmycosis and Norcardiosis Infection, Streptococcal Infections, Staphylococcal infection, Plague in Dogs, Ear Infections etc which affects the life span of the dogs.

The best way to treat the dogs when they are affected by the bacterial diseases is to take them to the veterans and provide them with the antibiotics and medicines which increase their resistance power. The bacterial infection may also get transmitted through other animals hence the mingling of the dogs with other animals should be done with proper care to reduce the infections.

Dog Protozoan disease is the type of disease caused by the protozoa which spread through their agents such as mosquitoes for their transmission especially in the warmer climate. Even the dogs are very much affected by the protozoa diseases transmitted through various sources which live water, soil, and the feces of infected animals and invade canine digestive systems and blood streams.

The dog protozoan diseases can be of types such as Giardiasis, Coccidiosis, Leishmaniasis, Babesiosis, and Neosporosis where the sources for these types of diseases are the contaminated water, feces and the symptoms for this disease may be Diarrhea, weight loss etc. the less immune or young dogs may suffer from severe symptoms and also they may be forced to death and it can be cured through injections injected to the dogs and also treatments such as intravenous fluids and blood transfusions can be made to the dogs to cure their disease.

Sometimes when dogs are affected by the protozoa diseases there are no vaccines to cure their diseases and hence they must taken proper care.