Pasteurellaceae

Question 1

What bacteria are in the Pasteurellaceae family?

Answer 1

Pasteurella, Mannheimia, Hammophilus, HIstophilus

Question 2

Describe Pastuerellaceae family
gram -
oxygen -
nutritional -

Answer 2

gram - negative
oxygen - facultative anaerobes
nutritional - fastidious

Question 3

what type of tests would you need to order for suspected bacteria of Pasteurellaceae family - aerobic, anaerobic, both?

Answer 3

only aerobic because facultative anaerobes

Question 4

Define pasteurellosis

Answer 4

infection with disease caused by Pasteurella bacteria

Question 5

what are the major pathogens of Pasteurellosis?

Answer 5

Pasteurella multocida
Buiberstenia trehalosi
Mannheimia haemollyticum

Question 6

Where are Pasteurellaceae found?

Answer 6

oral and respiratory tracts - mucous membranes
opportunistic bacteria

Question 7

Define endogenous infection

Answer 7

already present in body but previously asymptomatic
carrier state

Question 8

Define exogenous infection

Answer 8

infection from non-commensal enter a host
originate outside organism

Question 9

What is the portal of entry for Pasteurellosis?

Answer 9

respiratory tract
subq infections - animal bites

Question 10

Are infections by Pasteurella and Mannheimia endogenous or exogenous?

Answer 10

both

Question 11

Which Pasteurellosis infections are zoonotic?

Answer 11

Pasteurella multocida

Question 12

what disease does Pasteurella multocida cause in ruminants, swine, and lab animals

Answer 12

pneumonia - severe fibrinous broncho- and pleuropneumonia

Question 13

What species can Pasteurella multocida affect?

Answer 13

many species

Question 14

what disease does Pasteurella multocida cause in chicken, turkey

Answer 14

fowl cholera - contagious

Question 15

what disease does Pasteurella multocida cause in swine

Answer 15

atrophic rhinitis, pneumonia

Question 16

what disease does Pasteurella multocida cause in dog, cat

Answer 16

cough, lung abscess, fever, shortness of breath, bite wound infections

Question 17

what disease does Pasteurella multocida cause in cattle

Answer 17

mastitis and hemorrhagic septicemia

Question 18

How does hemorrhagic septicemia present?

Answer 18

high fever, profuse salivation, edema around throat

Question 19

Which bacteria are involved in bovine respiratory disease?

Answer 19

Pasteural multocida, Mannheimia haemolytica, Histophilus somni

Question 20

what are the clinical signs of BRD?

Answer 20

Question 21

How does Pneumonia caused by Pasteurella multocida present?

Answer 21

Question 22

How does Atrophic rhinitis caused by Pasteurella multocida present?

Answer 22

Question 23

How does Fowl Cholera present? what is the morbidity and mortality (low or high)?

Answer 23

acute septicemia
high and high

Question 24

what is the clinical sign of Pasteurella multocida in rabbits?

Answer 24

rhinitis - snuffles

Question 25

what environmental effects precipitates snuffles in rabbits?

Answer 25

stress - chilling (immunosuppresent), transportation, poor ventilation - high levels of ammonia

Question 26

what are the risk factors of P. multocida?

Answer 26

stress - drastic changes in weather, poor nutrition, overcrowding, asymptomatic or symptomatic carriers

Question 27

what are the virulence factors of P. multocida? what are the functions of the virulence factors

Answer 27

Question 28

what diseases does Manheimia haemolytica cause in cattle, sheep?

Answer 28

Question 29

what are the virulence factors of Mannheimia haemolytica? what are the functions of the virulence factors

Answer 29

Question 30

Describe - Histophilus somni & Histophilus parasuis gram - oxygen requirements - habitat -

Answer 30

gram - negative oxygen requirements - facultative anaerobes habitat - mucous membranes

Question 31

what diseases does Histophilus somni cause in cattle?

Answer 31

TEME, respiratory disease, GI infections (endometritis and abortion)

Question 32

what diseases does Histophilus somni cause in sheep?

Answer 32

pneumonia, mastitis, polyarthritis, meningitis, and septicemia

Question 33

what clinical manifestation is commonly associated with Histophilus somni?

Answer 33

septicemia

Question 34

what disease does histophilus parasuis cause in pigs?

Answer 34

glasser disease

Question 35

what are the clinical signs of Glasser disease in pigs?

Answer 35

Question 36

What type of environment generates glasser disease in 2-4w piglets?

Answer 36

stressful

Question 37

what is the economic importance of Avibacterium paragllinarium infections?

Answer 37

loss of condition in broiler chickens

Question 38

what does Avibacterium paragllinarium cause in poultry?

Answer 38

infectious coryza

Question 39

what are the clinical signs of infectious coryza in poultry?

Answer 39

Question 40

what specimens are required for laboratory diagnosis of dead animals with pneumonia and septicemia?

Answer 40

Question 41

what is point of care testing?

Answer 41

testing done at or near point of care give instant availability of results