The textbook contains diseases of fur-bearing animals and carnivores caused by viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, helminths and insects. Given: the definition of the disease, information about the pathogen, diagnosis and differential diagnosis. The characteristic clinical signs and pathoanatomical changes observed in sick animals are described in detail. A large place is given to preventive and therapeutic measures carried out in animal and hunting farms, as well as new means and methods of treating sick animals. The manual is intended for veterinary workers and students, undergraduates and PhD doctoral students of the faculty of veterinary medicine.
Key words: viroses, bacterioses, mycoses, trematodoses, cestodoses, nematodoses, protozooses, arachnoses and entomoses.