Final 2019 yellow

Question 1

Knemidokoptes on the legs of a parrot (scaly legs), how would you treat it? (bath of metha… Brush with ivermectin etc.)

Answer 1

LOCAL TREATMENT WITH IVERMECTIN SO ANSWER: WITH BRUSH WITH IVERMECTIN

Question 2

What would entamoeba cause in a green iguana? (nephritis, pneumonia etc)

Answer 2

ENTERITIS

Question 3

What is characteristic of turtle eggs? (soft shelled, shell disappears inside turtle and the offspring is live-born)

Answer 3

SOFT SHELLED

Question 4

Which species gets infected with myxovirus? (guinea pig, snake)

Answer 4

SNAKES

Question 5

Gestation period of rabbit?

Answer 5

30-33 DAYS SO 1 MONTH

Question 6

What colour is missing in ampengian… snake?

Answer 6

??

Question 7

What animal would you use to propofol as induction to anesthesia? (young patients, old patients, no patients)

Answer 7

ALL PATIENTS

Question 8

What is the dose of Ivermectin given to tortoises?

Answer 8

you wouldn’t because it’s poisonous to them

Question 9

What does Cryptosporidium cause in snakes?

Answer 9

hypertrophic gastritis

Question 10

What is the most common respiratory disease in rats?

Answer 10

(CRD)

Question 11

What method would you not use in a bird with a broken tibia? (sandwich something, screw, cast, external stabilization)

Answer 11

SCREW / INTRAMEDULLARY

Question 12

When is x-ray contraindicated in a bird? (sensitive to stress, hypothermia, dyspnea, neurological something)

Answer 12

DYSPNEA

Question 13

How would you treat external ear inflammation in tortoise? (remove tympanic membrane and clean out, local antbiotics, systemic treatment)

Answer 13

SURGERY AND ANTIBIOTIC INJECTION

Question 14

How would you treat an abscess in an iguana? (clean out and fill up with antibiotics, surgically remove like a tumour as per new regulations)

Answer 14

CLEAN OUT AND FLUSH then treated with topical antibiotics (systemic ones can be given). Surgery is only an option if the abscess isn’t solved with antibiotics.

Question 15

How would you treat a trichofolliculoma?

Answer 15

surgical removal – guinea pigs

Question 16

How would you treat ovarian cysts in a Guinea pig (check up every 2-3 weeks, ever 2-3 months, owners keep an eye and if it gets worse we remove surgically)

Answer 16

OWNERS KEEP AN EYE AND IF IT WORSENS = SURGERY

Question 17

What does not explain seeing only partially digested seeds in the faeces (beak malocclusion, megabacteriosis, PDD, lack of grit)

Answer 17

Beak malocclusion

Question 18

What is megabacteriosis? (bacteria, virus, parasite, fungus)

Answer 18

FUNGUS

Question 19

What colour does the uric acid part of the faeces get in case the bird suffers from liver failure? (lilac, greenish urates, yellow, brown)

Answer 19

GREEN

Question 20

What causes scale rot? (bacteria, fungi)

Answer 20

BACTERIA

Question 21

What is shell rot? (bacterial pathogen seen in aquatic cheletons)

Answer 21

BACTERIA, FUNGI

Question 22

What is correct about ovarian cysts in guinea pigs?

Answer 22

It always causes symmetrical alopecia as there are hormones produced causing pruritus

Question 23

What is correct about feather plucking syndrome?

it is tricky to treat and requires the owner’s dedication, it is fast and easy to treat, it can be treated medically

Answer 23

-> it is tricky to treat and requires the owner’s dedication

Question 24

How can you not give infusion to a bird?

IV, intraosseal, subcutaneous, intraperitoneal

Answer 24

-> Intraperitoneal

Question 25

You receive a flock of Hermann’s tortoises with stomatitis and runny nose, what can be the cause?

Answer 25

HERPES AND MYCOPLASMA

Question 26

What are the most common ectoparasite of rats?

Answer 26

MITES AND LICE

Question 27

What would you give to a African gray with egg retention?

Answer 27

SURGERY (calcium and oxytocin for guinea pigs with dystocia)

Question 28

What is the most common cause of bone racheitis (metabolic bone disorder) in iguanas?

Answer 28

D hypovitaminosis = calcium deficient

Question 29

What would be the clinical signs of bone racheitis in tortoise? (shell becomes rubber-like, obstruction of mainly large intestine)

Answer 29

SOFTENING OF THE CARAPACE AND PLASTRON

Question 30

What antibiotic do we not give per os to rodents?

Answer 30

amoxicillin + clavulanic acid

Question 31

A rabbit has left bright red spots in the litter, what examination would you do? (microscope investigation of urine, - of faeces, specific urogram, scan reproductive organs)

Answer 31

URINALYSIS

Question 32

What parasite is located in the pharynx of a pigeon?

Answer 32

trichomonas

Question 33

What are the clinical signs of Trichomona, Poxvirus, Mycobacterium Avium in the bird? (vomiting, head-tilt, Infects Trachea = laboured breathing with open mouth)

Answer 33

-> Infects Trachea = laboured breathing with open mouth

Question 34

What lesions would Knemidokoptes pilae cause?

Answer 34

skin lesions around beak

Question 35

What is true about the teeth in rabbit and guinea pig? (lower incisors are permanent, only top teeth grow permanently, only lower incisors)

Answer 35

CHEEK TEETH (MOLARS) GROW CONTINUOUSLY

Question 36

What is true about bird testes? (both develop, only right develop, only left develop, both lead into the left uro…)

Answer 36

BOTH DEVELOP

Question 37

What is the most common tumour in rabbits? | adenoma, adenocarcinoma, lipoma, sarcoma

Answer 37

-> Adenocarcinoma

Question 38

How is Encephalitozoon spread?

Answer 38

via urine

Question 39

What are the symptoms of Encephalitozoon?

Answer 39

head-tilt, nystagmus, kidney something

Question 40

What is true about Encephalitozoon?

Answer 40

It can affect the eyes

Question 41

What causes tuberculosis in birds?

Answer 41

Mycobacterium avium

Question 42

From what species can you collect blood from the dorsal coccygeal vein?

Answer 42

Hermann tortoise

Question 43

What is true about penis prolapse in turtle?

Answer 43

difficult to success, euthanise

Question 44

How to perform laporatomy on a tortoise? (you don’t, via inguinal ring, open somhow?)

Answer 44

SURGERY (plastron removed on abdomen and ventral midline incision in coelomic membrane)

Question 45

What is not a consequence of Vitamin A hypovitaminosis?

Answer 45

What does happens is = swollen eyelids, appetite and BW decreases, mouth infection, respiratory infections, liver or kidney failure may occur

Question 46

Which is easy to intubate?

Answer 46

swan, guinea pig, snake

Question 47

For which patient is propofol a good anesthetic?

Answer 47

all patient types

Question 48

Ovulation in ferrets

Answer 48

(seasonal polyoestrus, only induced in presence of a male) | -> seasonal polyestrus

Question 49

True about rabbits?

Answer 49

feed and faeces ae found in the stomach at the same time

Question 50

Which animal can’t synthesize Vitamin C?

Answer 50

Guinea Pig

Question 51

Ectoparasites of tortoises kept in terrarium? ( Seldom?)

Answer 51

MITES

Question 52

Most common tumour in rabbits?

Answer 52

Adenocarcinoma - Uterine tumour in females

Question 53

What’s true for otitis in rabbits? (at least 3 weeks of antibiotics required)

Answer 53

PPT says minimum antibiotics 4-6 weeks, cleaning of the ear, TICA/LBO

Question 54

Pneumonia verminosa treatment?

Answer 54

IVERMECTIN, FENBENDAZOLE

Question 55

African grey sex determination

Answer 55

endoscopy or DNA

Question 56

Tuberculosis in birds pathogen?

Answer 56

Mycobacterium avium

Question 57

IV given in dorsal coccygeal vein?

Answer 57

Hermann tortoise

Question 58

Injection site not used in turtles?

Answer 58

intraabdominal

Question 59

Vit A deficiency?

Answer 59

metaplasia on mucous membranes of GIT

Question 60

Hypertrophic gastritis in snakes?

Answer 60

Cryptosporidium serpentis

Question 61

Ophyniassis nitricis causing anaemia?

Answer 61

Ivermectin

Question 62

What causes blood loss anaemia in birds?

Answer 62

ticks and lice

Question 63

A frog is loose in the clinic, how do you pick it up?

Answer 63

moist, unpowdered gloves