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Question 1

How do you surgically treat persistent SDFT and DDFT contracture?

Answer 1

Distal and proximal check desmotomy

Question 2

Gram-positive branched filamentous rods in a foul-smelling purulent thoracocentesis sample are likely what orgnaisms?

Answer 2

Nocardia and Actinomyces

Question 3

What causes myelomalacia of the lower spinal cord that results in pelvic limb incoordination and urine dribbling when ingested by horses?

Answer 3

Sorghum

Question 4

What infectious agent causes clinical presentation of pigs most similar to Glasser’s disease (H. parasuis)?

Answer 4

Strep suis

Question 5

How do you treat Glasser’s disease (Haemophilus parausis)?

Answer 5

Inject all pigs with cefitofur

Question 6

What is normal SCC for dairy cow milk?

Answer 6

100k-200k

Question 7

In what species do glucocorticoids cause increased serum ALP?

Answer 7

Dogs

Question 8

What is the prognosis for EPM/

Answer 8

Many horses improve with treatment but few make complete recovery

Question 9

A hors with ataxia, spastic gait, knuckling of left legs and atrophy of muscles on the right side of the face can be caused by what disease?

Answer 9

EPM

Question 10

What is NOT a treatment option for glomerulonephritis?

Answer 10

Long term furosemide administration

Question 11

What is furosemide indicated for in horses?

Answer 11

Oliguric renal failure

Question 12

What organism can be eradicated by treating infected clinically affected cows and also by dry cow therapy w/intramammary abx?

Answer 12

Strep agalactiae

Question 13

What diagnostic test will be most helpful in confirming acromegaly in a cat?

Answer 13

MRI of the brain

Question 14

Weigh gain, prognathism, organomegaly, and DM that is difficult to control are all clinical signs of what disease?

Answer 14

Agromegaly

Question 15

Condition resulting from a growth hormone secreting pituitary tumor

Answer 15

Agromegaly

Question 16

Necrotizing bronchitis in swine is almost pathognomonic for what infection?

Answer 16

Influenza virus

Question 17

Which value is usually increased in canine hyperadrenocorticism?

Answer 17

Serum cholesterol

Question 18

What is praziquantel used to treat in horses?

Answer 18

Tapeworm

Question 19

What is the most useful test to rule in or out a Mycoplasma infection?

Answer 19

PCR

Question 20

How do you treat Strongylus vulgaris?

Answer 20

Ivermectin

Question 21

Colic w/assoc. painful mass @ root of mesentery is suspicious for what disease?

Answer 21

Verminous arteritis

Question 22

What organism causes verminous arteritis in a horse?

Answer 22

Strongylus vulgaris

Question 23

Why is amputation only “rarely curative” of OSA?

Answer 23

90% develop pulmonary mets within a year even with amputation

Question 24

What is the most effective way of controlling proliferative enteritis in swine?

Answer 24

Vax against Lawsonia intracellularis

Question 25

What barbiturate has the shortest duration and time to onset of action?

Answer 25

Thipental

Question 26

How do you treat turkeys with Erysipelas?

Answer 26

IM sodium penicillin

Question 27

What diet do you prescribe to a dog with struvite crystals?

Answer 27

Acidifying diet

Question 28

What is a consequence of insulin deficiency regarding DM?

Answer 28

Impaired energy utilization