19. Woodchucks, Squirrels, Prairie Dogs Flashcards
Order and suborder of woodchucks
Order Rodentia, suborder Sciuromorpha
Woodchuck gestation time
30-33 days
Woodchuck hepatitis virus is a model for which human dz?
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
WHV is a member of which virus family?
Hepadnavirus
C/S of chronic WHV infection
Hepatic encephalopathy, immune-mediated glomerulonephritis, edema/ascites, hepatocellular carcinoma
Cardio diseases of woodchucks
Cardiomyopathy -> CHF
Aortic rupture
Misc common dz of woodchucks
Diaphragmatic hernia
Hibernating woodchuck is a model of what human dz?
Panhypopituitarism
Richardson’s ground squirrel
Urocitellus richardsonii
13-lined ground squirrel
Ictodomys tridecemliniatus
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Spermophilus lateralis
California ground squirrel
Spermophilus beechyi
3 viral diseases of squirrels
Ground squirrel hepatitis virus
Western equine encephalitis virus
Rabies virus
Hepatic carcinoma in squirrels is caused by what virus?
GSHV
Gestation period of prairie dogs
34-47 days
Prairie dogs are a vector for which zoonotic disease?
Monkeypox
Monkeypox transmission from prairie dogs to humans happens how?
Mucocutaneous and respiratory
Monkeypox clinical disease in prairie dogs
Bronchopneumonia, enteritis, lymphadenopathy
C/S of tularemia in prairie dogs
Sudden death, nonspecific signs with hepatic or resp involvement.
Gross pathology of tularemia in prairie dogs
White pinpoint hepatosplenic lesions and purulent bronchopneumonia
Prairie dogs are susceptible to outbreaks of what zoonotic disease?
Yersinia pestis (plague)
Most common research use of prairie dogs
Pathophysiology of gallstone formation
