VetPrep Flashcards
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Zoonotic pathogens shed in cow milk
- Salmonella dublin
- Brucella abortus
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Mycobacterium avium ssp paratuberculosis
Most effective treatment for leptospira infection in growing pigs
Long term use of tetracyclines. Vaccinations are usually only used in the breeding herd where bacterins, containing the appropriate serovar, can reduce the prevalence of infection and leptospirosis-induced abortions. Depopulation or euthanasia is not necessary as in growing pigs the clinical signs are not life threatening (leptospirosis-induced abortions is not a concern). Fluoroquinolone antibiotics are not useful against leptospirosis. Besides tetracycline antibiotics, other effective antibiotics include tylosin, erythromycin, and penicillins.
Toxocara (roundworms) cause what in people?
Visceral and ocular larva migrans
What endocrine disorder causes myxedma (increased amount of mucin and other ground substances in the dermis)
Hypothyroidism
Acromegaly
Nervous coccidiosis is a disease of cattle of what age?
<1 yr old
Hey, what’s produced by the liver??
Fibrinogen
Albumin
Urea
Antithromin III
3 most common causes of colic
- Intussusception
- Cecal dilation (+/- torsion)
- Abomasal volvulus
Synovial gout or articular gout cause and treatment
The disease occurs when uric acid crystallizes in the synovium and causes lameness. Allopurinol is used to decrease uric acid formation. The underlying pathophysiology is not completely understood, but renal disease is found in many affected birds; treatment generally consists of a low-protein diet, allopurinol, and addressing underlying renal disease.
3 MC abx for rodents:
- Enrofloxacin
- Chloramphenicol
- TMS
Carcinoma
These tumors come from epithelial cells including cells of glandular tissues such as salivary glands, mammary glands, and cells lining most tissues including squamous cells or transitional cells. The cytologic appearance is that of COHESIVE CLUSTERS of cells. Here, you can see some of the tight cellular junctions in the cluster which is typical. Cells are often polygonal in shape.
Which organisms is a normal inhabitant of the guttural pouch of a healthy horse?
Streptococcus equi ssp zooepidemicus
** Streptococcus equi ssp. equi can be present when there is guttural pouch empyema. Aspergillus nidulans can be present in cases of guttural pouch mycosis. Salmonella should not be present in the guttural pouch.**
Treatment for Chlamydophila psittaci
Doxycycline
High ringbone (Equine)
osteoarthritis of the proximal interphalangeal (pastern) joint
What test is needed to diagnose Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency?
Measuring serum trypsin-like immunoreactivity (fTLI) concentration
Keep or cull cows with Mycoplasma bovis mastitis?
CULL
Ancylostoma caninum (hookworms) cause what in people?
Cutaneous migrans
Enzyme most liver specific in cow, sheep, goat, and horses:
Sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH).
AST can be found in muscle, liver and red blood cells. LDH is found in many places such as muscle, heart and liver. ALP is found in liver, intestine, kidney and bone.
Best prognosis for recovery in chickens?
Infectious coryza (bacteria, tx with abx)
Equine Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID) ( Cushing’s disease)
Signalment: > 15yrs old ponies and Morgan horses CS: Hirsutism + classic cushing signs Dx: ACTH (mult. seasons), TRH, HHDST Tx: Pergolide
Ddx for otitis externa
Foreign body
Hypothyroidism
Atopy
Describe high ring bone in a stupid horse
OA of the proximal interphalangeal (pastern) oint
Normal inhabitant in the guttural pouch of a healthy horse
Strep. equi ssp. zooepidecmicus
Pacheco’s disease (Herpes virus)
Ruffled plumage
Necrotic foci in the liver and kidneys
Splenomegaly
Cowdry type- ! intranuclear inclusion bodies in the liver and renal parenchyma
Anaplasmosis
A rickettsial organism that is transmitted by ticks. Infected calves have a low mortality rate, but adult cattle have a 20-50% mortality rate with this disease
Tx: Oxytetracycline