export_feline infectious diseases

Question 1

Name three common bacteria to cause abscesses

Answer 1

1. Strept
2. Fusobacterium
3. Rhodococcus

Question 2

What type of bacteria are cephlasporins and lincomycins good to treat

Answer 2

anaerobes

Question 3

Mycobacterium lepraemurium causes..

Answer 3

Feline leprosy

Question 4

Feline in fectious anaemia is caused by…

Answer 4

Mycoplasma haemofelis

Question 5

What is the pathogenesis of M. Haemofelis?

Answer 5

Attach to RBC, damage membrane thereby shortening life, removed in spleen/liver by extra and intravascular lysis.

Question 6

Why would steroids be a good treatment in an infection?

Answer 6

When auto-immune processes are causing symptoms. FIA - steroids would reduce aneamia

Question 7

What are the main viral causes of cat flu?

Answer 7

1. FHV-1
2. FCV
3. Bordatella bronchiseptica

Question 8

___ causes a more severe cat flu

Answer 8

FHV-1

Question 9

Clinical signs of FHV-1

Answer 9

• nasal & ocular d/c (serious –> mucopurulent)
• sneezing
• sticky, conjunctivitis!
• blepharospasmchemosis
• DENDRITIC ULCERS is pathognomnic

Question 10

FHV1 is a _______ virus

Answer 10

DNA, ds

Question 11

FCV clinical signs

Answer 11

• stomatitis
• URI
• lameness syndrome
• haemorrhagic syndrome

Question 12

Are vaccinated cats protected from the Haemorhagic syndrome of FCV infection?

Answer 12

No

Question 13

Bordetella bronchiseptica causes what in cats?

Answer 13

• potentially Cat flu
• submand lymphadenopathy
• bronchopneumonia

Question 14

Bordatella bronchi is

Answer 14

• gram neg
• coccobacilus
• aerobic

Question 15

How would bordatella be diagnosed?

Answer 15

Oro-phayngeal swab
blood agar culture
charcoal amies transport medium

Question 16

What causes feline panleucopenia

Answer 16

Feline parvovirus

Question 17

What cells does feline parvo target

Answer 17

rapidly dividnig cells

• crypts - enteritis
• BM/L-tissue - panleucopenia
• CNS - cerebellar hypoplasia

Question 18

Cowpox is common in cats, where do they catch it from?

Answer 18

wild rodents

Question 19

What is the pathogensis of cow pox in cats?

Answer 19

Primary lesions infected by cowpox, secondary lesions develop. Look like FAD

Question 20

2ry lesions are often mistaken for FAD, why is this important?

Answer 20

Corticosteroids used, immunosuppressive will make cowpox inf worse

Question 21

What diseases are vaccinated against in TriCat?

Answer 21

1. FHV1
2. FCV
3. F. panleucopenia

Question 22

How often does f. panleucopenia need to be vaccinated against?

Answer 22

2 yearly

Question 23

Feline coronavirus causes..?

Answer 23

• virulent strains –> FIP

* others FECV (mild enteric disease)

Question 24

FIP is a spectrum of disease with two ‘syndromes’ name them.

Answer 24

Wet, effusive FIP

Dry, granulomatous FIP

Question 25

The pathogenesis of FIP is..

Answer 25

* vasculitis from i-complexes * oro-nasal entry * CI c-steroids, CMI response vital

Question 26

Name 2 feline retroviruses

Answer 26

FELV | FIV

Question 27

retrovirus

Answer 27

a RNA virus that contains the enzymes reverse transcriptase , which transcribes RNA into DNA.

Question 28

FELV has 2 main types of clinical disease, name them.

Answer 28

Neoplastic and non-neoplastic

Question 29

Neoplastic FELV leads to

Answer 29

Lymphoma, mediastinal usually and Leukaemia of both myeloid and lymphoid cells

Question 30

Non neoplastic signs of FELV are

Answer 30

* anaemia * immunosupp * infertile * neuro

Question 31

FELV is shed in...

Answer 31

saliva

Question 32

Name the three stages of infection of FELV

Answer 32

1. transient viraemia 2. persistant 3. latent infection

Question 33

What protein on the spikey envelope is key to FELV dx?

Answer 33

P27

Question 34

Healthy cat with transient FELV viraemia will be ____ to p27 on ELISA test

Answer 34

Negative

Question 35

FIV is shed..

Answer 35

saliva

Question 36

FIV infects mostly ____ cells

Answer 36

CD4+T cells

Question 37

FIV will cause _____ initially

Answer 37

fever, malaise, lymphadenopathy

Question 38

FIV will become a ______ viraemia

Answer 38

Persistant

Question 39

Is there a Vaccine fro FIV?

Answer 39

No