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is respiratory disease usually a flock or individual problem?

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  • flock
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WHat should be observewd on distance examination?

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  • Flock - look, listen
  • demeanour (normal v sick)
  • size variation (heterogeneity)
  • nasal/ocular discharge?
  • dyspnoea or resp distress
  • coughing
  • particularly bad animals
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Main points of resp based PE on clinically affected sheep?

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  • temp
  • resp (<20 but usually faster)
  • lung sounds may be loud (poor correlation between lung sounds and pathology)
  • HR
  • size and BCS
  • MMs
  • Hydration status
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How is definitive Dx usually made?

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PME of affected animal (don’t let farmer sway you to cull maller unaffected sheep!)

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How much is a PME? How much is carcasse disposal?

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£30-£60

- carcasses disposal £20

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WHat further diagnostics are possible for valuable aniamls?

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  • BAL (NB. many agents commensals of sheep resp tract so ? significance if found, better in calves)
  • Ultrasound/rads
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WHat is the main respiratory cuase of sudden death in sheep?

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  • peracute pneumonia (manheimia haemolytica, enzootic pneumonia) -> septicaemia (usually first lambing yearlings)
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What is the main cause of acute or subacute ill-health, cough +- discharge in sheep?

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  • acute bacterial/viral pneumonias (+ fever)
  • aspiration pneumonia (+ fever)
  • parasitic pneumonia (No fever)
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What are the most common presenting signs of rep disease in LAMBS? Causes and Pathophysiology?

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  • chronic pneumonia (mycoplasma or resolved enzootic pneumonia) -> lung dmage, poor weight gain, chronic ill-thrift and occasional cough
  • multiple lambs affected
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What are the most common presenting signs of resp disease in ADULTS? Causes and pathophysiology?

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  • chronic weight loss
  • breathing difficulties
    > ‘slow virus’ diseases eg. Maedi-Visna, SPA
  • lung tissue replaced with solid tissue
  • only 1-2 animals affected at a time
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Which URT obstruction may be seen in sheep? Prognosis?

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  • laryngeal constriction or damage
  • laryngeal chondritis and abscessation esp. muscle breeds eg. suffolks
    > can be fatal
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WHat is the single most common respiraoty problem in sheep?

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Pneumonia

  • young animals
  • ENDEMIC in UK and world
  • multi-factorial aetiology
  • predisposing factors: ventilation, age, stress
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What are the most common pathogens involvd in ovine pneumonia?

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  • Manheimia Haemolytica (commensal)
  • Mycoplasmas (commensal)
  • PI3 and adenoviruses (predispose to 2* disease)
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Which pathogens are less commonly involved in ovine pneumonia?

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  • Pasturella trehalosi
  • Pasturella multocida
  • Bordatella parpertussis
  • Resp syncytial virus
  • Reoviruses
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WHat risk factors predispose ovine pneumonia?

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> housing 
- close contact
- poor ventilation 
- high humidity 
> mixing
- ages
-sources
> young = greater risk 
> climate
> stress 
- mixing
- nutrition
- husbandry
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Which pathogens are involved in enzootic pneumonia of sheep?

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  • PI3 predisposing viral damage

- colonisation with m. haemolytica (pasteurella)

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Clinical scenario associated with enzootic pneumonia?

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  • any age
  • any season
  • most commonly young lambs sudden death in young lambs (septicaemia) and pneumonia in lambs and ewes
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CLinical signs of enzootic pneumonia?

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  • sudden death
  • high fever (>40.3*)
  • depression
  • inappetent
  • dyspnoea
  • cough
  • nasal discharge (may be frothy)
  • poor thrift in recovered animals
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Diagnosis of enzzotic pneumonia?

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  • hx, clinical signs
  • PME +- histopath and culture of large colony from lung
    • isolation of PI3/M. haemolytica from NASAL cavity IS NOT DIAGNOSTIC**
  • need BAL
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Tx of enzootic pneumonia outbreak? How may this be different for individual animal?

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  • prophylactic LA oxytet and vax
  • individual: LA oxytet or tilmicosin
    > limited Abx in sheep, think cascade
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Why may oxytet not be effective in sheep?

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  • commonly used heavily for tx of chlamydophila abortions so may have developed resistence on farm
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Give 2 common vax protocols for enzootic pneumonia

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  1. Ewe
    - sensitiser + booster 4-6 weeks later
    - booster 4-6weeks prelambing to maximise colostrum levels
  2. young lamb
    - maternal antibody lasts 3-5 weeks
    - vax then, booster 3-4 weeks later
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What is enzootic pneumonia vax protocol commonly combined with?

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Clostridial vaccine

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Clinical signs of atypical pneumonia?

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  • death RARE
  • low growth rates common
  • occasional clinical disease
  • usually subclinical
  • flock signs of cough and nasal discharge
  • dullness and loss of condition
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Diagnosis of atypical pneumonia?
- hx, clinical signs - PME > clearly demarcated red-brown or grey areas of lung > apical and cardiac lobes > MYCOPLASMA OVIPNEUMONIAE
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Prevention/control of atypical pneumonia?
- housing design and ventilation improvements - v stocking density - quarantine introduced animals (not all sheep carry mycoplasma)
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Only important sheep lung worm?
Dictyocaulus filaria
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When is peak larval contamination of dictycaulus filaria?
- autumn and winter (build up on summer pasture)
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What aged lambs are most commonly affected?
Up to 1 year | - variation in individual susceptability
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Clinical signs of parasitic pneumonia?
- coughing - ^ RR - nasal discharge - if severe, weight loss - death rare
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Diagnosis of parasitic pneumonia
- hx, clinical signs - larvae in feaces - PME adult worms clearly visable in bronchi - leasions in diaphragmatic lobes
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Is resp parasitism as common a problem as GI parasitism?
No, basically no economic significance to farmers | - exception: severe lungworm infestation seen with paratuberculosis (johne's) due to immunocompromise
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Control of parasitic pneumonia?
= GI parasite control measures | - no vax
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What type of virus causes maedi-visna? What does it cause clinical signs wise? When does it manifest?
- Lentivirus (slow virus) - seen in 3yo + - slow progression of signs - dyspnoea, wasting and mastitis, arthritis +- cough, nasal discharge
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How is maedi-visna transmitted?
- vertical in coclostrum and milk | - some horizontal transmission
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Does maedi-visna cause mortality?
not really, ~2% mortality but mainly due to premature culling as poor production milk etc.
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Diagnosis of maedi-visna?
- Hx, clinical signs - serology (individual/flock) - PME: voluminous lungs, uncollapsed but will sink - histopath
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Treatment/prevention/control of maedi-visna?
- NO Tx - Prevent disease introduction > CheCs scheme attempt to eradicate from individual farms (certification) - control options = many! > cull clinical cases > cull all ewes when 4-5yo > cull offspring of affected ewes > testing and culling > snatch lambs from seropositive ewes > complete destock and replacement (ensure buying from accreditied source or could just buy them all back in!)
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What is SPA also known as? What is it? Mortality?
- sheep pulmonary adenomatosis = ovine PA =Jaaksiekte - retrovirus - slowly progressive lung adenocarcinoma (common contagious tumour) - long incubation - transmission respiratory and vertical - Mortality high on first instance then becomes endemic (losses 2-10%)
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Clinical signs of Jaagsiekte?
- adult sheep (2-4yo) - progressive resp disease - weight loss - wheelbarrow test to check for fluid coming out of the nostrils = otherwise same as Maedi-visna
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Diagnosis of Jaagsiekte?
- Hx and lcinical signs - NO serology - PME: tumours in lungs, enlarged consolidated lungs with frothy fluid in bronchi - histopath - may occour in conjuction with other diseases eg. Maedi-Visna just to confuse you!!

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