2011 Flashcards
- Minimum legal age for rabies vaccine in dog?
a. 3 months
b. 4 months
c. 5 months
d. 6 weeks
b. 4 months
How do you diagnose Avian Chlamydia?
a. Complement fixation
Long term pain management in cats
a. carprofen
b. ketoprofen
c. buprenorphine
d. acetaminophen
c.buprenorphine
T/F: Contagious ecthyma is zoonotic
True
2) Bacteria most commonly associated with foxtail migration?
a. Pasteurella
b. Actinomyces pyogenes
c. Mycobacterium
d. Staphylococcus
b. Actinomyces pyogenes
3) Why do you not want to vaccinate a pregnant bitch or queen?
a. May cause fetal deformation and/or death
b. May cause revision to a virulent form
c. May cause fetal immunosuppression
d. Pregnancy decreased effective antibody production
a. May cause fetal deformation and/or death
4) You tested a 4 month old stray kitten with FIV using the ELISA snap test. What can you conclude?
a. Kitten has FIV
b. Cannot conclude and retest in a month
c. The queen has FIV (gave cat maternal antibodies)
d. Retest after 6 months due to maternal antibiodies
d. Retest after 6 months due to maternal antibiodies
5) What is the most common cause of diarrhea in rabbits and what is the appropriate
treatment?
a. Tyzzer’s disease; tetracycline
b. Salmonella, oral antibiotics (rare in rabbits)
c. Mucoid enteropathy; oral antibiotics (diarrhea as a result of mixture of constipation, toxins
and non-specific bacteria – need to increase fiber)
d. Coccidiosis; sulfadimethoxine (usually subclinical)
a. Tyzzer’s disease; tetracycline- On 2011 Tyzzer’s disease was paired with Penicillin
(not correct)
6) Your patient is a puppy with T=102.5, P=150, R=48. What is the cause?
a. Left in hot car
b. Normal
c. Excited puppy
b. Normal
7) When is the best time to apply a fentanyl patch?
a. Immediately after surgery before they wake up from anesthesia
b. 12-24 hours before sx
c. 1-2 hours before sx
d. 12-24 hours after sx
b. 12-24 hours before sx
8) To differentiate pituitary dependent hyperadrenocorticism from adrenal tumor, what test should you use? a. ACTH stim (measure cortisol) b. Urine creatinine:cortisol ratio c. Low dose Dex suppression d. High dose Dex suppression
d. High dose Dex suppression
9) A woman brings a litter of Dalmatian puppies to your clinic. How do you check for
deafness?
a. BAER test
10) Ivermectin is ineffective against which parasite?
a. Anoplocephala (horse tapeworm)
b. Parascaris
c. Strongyles
a. Anoplocephala (horse tapeworm)
13) Where would you take pulse in the horse
a. External carotid, lateral thoracic, median
b. Facial, femoral, external carotid
c. Median, external iliac, digital
d. Facial, digital, metatarsal
d. Facial, digital, metatarsal
14) What do you do when a horse that you are treating with TMS becomes anorexic and develops diarrhea? a. Stop TMS, CBC, banamine b. Continue TMS, CBC, banamine c. Stop TMS, chemistry, bute d. Continue TMS, chemistry, bute
a. Stop TMS, CBC, banamine
16) What would you expect to see with a 4-point block for an enucleation on a cow?
a. Exophthalmos and miosis
b. Exophthalmos and mydriasis
c. Endophthalmos and miosis
d. Endophthalmos and mydriasis
b. Exophthalmos and mydriasis
17) Which of the following is consistent with signs of heart failure, thoracic edema and swollen liver in dairy calves a. Nitrate toxicity b. Urea toxicity c. Copper toxicity d. Gossypol
d. Gossypol (cardiotoxic)
18) Strep zoo causes infertility not abortions?
?
19) Arsenic binds sulfhydryl groups on enzymes and other cellular proteins, impairing cellular respiration and depleting energy stores.
Tissues most affected are those rich in oxidative enzymes including…?
(GI tract, endothelium, lung, kidney, liver, and epidermis).
GI inflammation and necrosis causes hemorrhagic gastroenteritis. Endothelial damage results in fluid loss into interstitium, hypovolemia, hypotension, and noncardiogenic pulmonary edema.
Hepatic and renal damage from direct effect of arsenic or secondary to hypovolemia and organ hypoperfusion.
20) What do you do with gastrophilus?
Anti-parasitic programs , ivermectin good
21) How do you treat for Actinobacillus ligneresii?
a. Sodium chloride
b. Potassium iodide
c. Sodium iodide
d. Potassium chloride
c. Sodium iodide
22) You see a 2 yo intact cat that has enlarged mammary glands of 3cm. The cat is BAR, has unremarkable abdomen on palpation, and an otherwise normal physical exam. What is your likely diagnosis? a. Pregnant b. Mastitis c. Mammary adenocarcinoma d. Benign mammary hyperplasia
d. Benign mammary hyperplasia
T/F: Need negative EIA for transport across state lines with horses
True
24) Propylene glycol in cats?
Heinz body anemia
25) What is the most frequent cause of corneal ulcers in a cat?
a. Calcivirus
b. Herpesvirus
c. FeLV
d. FIV
b. Herpesvirus
26) What is the reveral agent for detomidine?
a. Naloxone
b. Atropine
c. Yohimbine
c. Yohimbine
27) Outdoor dog with a clean hole under its eye that is non-painful
a. Musca (fly)
b. Foxtail
b. Foxtail
28) An owner brings in a dog and you diagnose it with pulmonary coccidiomycosis. What do you tell the owner? a. Quarantine the dog for 2 months b. Treat with ?? c. There is little threat to the owner d. Euthanize the dog
c. There is little threat to the owner (pulmonary is not zoonotic)
29) What is a likely disease of a baby rabbit with diarrhea and how should you treat it?
a. Tyzzer’s (clostridium piliformes); tetracycline
b. Coccidia; sulfadimethoxine
c. Salmonella; oral antibiotics
d. Mucoid enteropathy; oral antibiotics
a. Tyzzer’s (clostridium piliformes); tetracycline
30) A parrot eats tomato, avocado, lima beans, lettuce and chicken. It is now in respiratory distress. What part of diet is responsible?
a. Lima bean
b. Avocado
c. Tomato
d. Chicken
b. Avocado
Normal/abnormal: Large coroidal vessels dorsal lateral to the fundus in a horse?
a. Not normal
32) A dog that has been HBC comes in obtunded, in shock, with loss of deep pain and anal tone,
paralysis of all 4 limbs. What do you tell the owner?
a. Has cervical lesion
b. Has an intracranial lesion
c. You need to stabilize the dog and re-evaluate later
d. Has severe neurologic deficits with poor prognosis
c. You need to stabilize the dog and re-evaluate later
33) Cat comes in with neuroligic signs, chewing at a wound for 3 days, fractious what do you do?
a. Sedate and radiograph?
b. Euthanize and freeze
c. Sedate and PE and radiographs
b. Euthanize and freeze?
34) You have a dog that had a seizure. The dog has a normal blood biochemistry. What would be the appropriate next test?
a. EMG and CSF
b. EMG and Echocardiography
c. MRI and CSF
d. MRI and Echocardiography
c. MRI and CSF
35) Which should not be used in the horse
a. Diazepam
b. Ketamine
c. Guai?
?
T/F: Sulfadimethoxine can be used in cattle
True?
Most common bacteria in cat bites?
Pasturella
38) A 2 yo FS border collie presents with violent persistent sneezing with unilateral epistaxis.
What is the most likely diagnosis?
a. Intranasal carcinoma (too young)
b. Intranasal foreign body
c. Aspergillus (bilateral and no epistaxis)
d. Infectious rhinitis (bilateral)
b. Intranasal foreign body
39) Where should controlled drugs be kept?
a. In a lock cupboard with other controlled drugs
b. Lock box intermingled with non-controlled drugs
c. In the veterinarian’s locked office
d. In a drawer
a. In a lock cupboard with other controlled drugs?
40) What type of drug is contraindicated with glaucoma?
a. Carbonic anhydrase inhibitor (methazolamide)
b. Topical beta blocker (timolol)
c. Mydriatic (atropine)
d. Miotic
c. Mydriatic (atropine)
41) Which of the following drugs is prohibited in lactating dairy cattle?
a. Sulfadiazine
b. Penicillin
c. Sulfadimethoxine (coccidia)
a. Sulfadiazine
42) Which mastitis pathogen can be eradicated?
a. Strep uberis
b. Strep dysgalactiae
c. E. coli
b. Strep dysgalactiae
43) Which age group of cattle is most susceptible to Anaplasmosis?
a. Older cattle
44) Holstein dairy with 10 day calves with diarrhea. 100% morbidity, 0% mortality. Adequate passive transfer has been demonstrated. Next dx step?
a. ELISA for cryptosporidium (1-3 weeks)
b. Fecal culture and ELISA for E. coli K99 (<5days)
c. ELISA for BVD (adult)
d. Fecal float for coccidiosis (months to year)
a. ELISA for cryptosporidium (1-3 weeks)
45) A 4H sheep was given clenbuteral, what do you tell the client:
a. Can be slaughtered and used for home consumption only
b. Meat is contaminated and cannot be used for human consumption
c. Withdrawl time for meat/milk is 30 days and then can be slaughtered
d. Withdrawl time for meat/milk is 60 days and then can be slaughtered
b. Meat is contaminated and cannot be used for human consumption
46) A 10 yo beef cow is examined for poor condition and pitting edema cranial to udder. She is afebrile. There are bilateral softball sized masses at the internal iliac arteries and similar masses
in the supramammary region. What is the disease?
a. Mycoplasma bovis (respiratory and mastitis)
b. Bovine leukemia virus (most common cause of lymphoma)
c. Actinomyces pyogenes (liver abcesses, endometritis)
d. Actinobacillus ligneresii (Woody tongue)
b. Bovine leukemia virus (most common cause of lymphoma)
47) Goat with epididymitis. What should you do?
a. Cull (Brucella)
b. Tetracycline
c. No sex for 2 weeks
d. Vaccinate for B. ovis
a. Cull (Brucella)
48) What is the best location for projectile euthanasia in cattle?
a. Equidistant between ears
b. Equidistant between eyes
c. Equidistant between alanto-occipital joint and pole
d. Equidistant between ears and eyes
d. Equidistant between ears and eyes
49) What diagnostic test would be performed to diagnose uroperitoneum in a 2 yo colt?
a. Serum BUN
b. Urine BUN
c. Serum creatinine
d. Abdominocenesis (to obtain creatinine)
d. Abdominocenesis (to obtain creatinine)
50) A horse has fallen down after administration of detomidine. How do you reverse it?
a. Yohimbine
b. Naloxone
a. Yohimbine
51) You have just diagnosed equine viral arteritis on a breeding farm, what is
the most appropriate next step?
a. Reassure the owner that EVA is self limiting and that no specific treatment will be required
b. Euthanize the horses immediately due to potential zoonotic risk
c. Contact state veterinarian
d. Separate the horses by age
c. Contact state veterinarian
52) What is the most appropriate suture material for wound repair of a contaminated skin laceration to a horse’s dorsal MC3? a. Vicryl b. PDS (polydioxanone) c. Silk d. Prolene
d. Prolene (polypropylene – least reactive)
53) Several lambs in a flock are diagnosed with urolithiasis (most likely struvite). What is the best recommendation you can give the farmer?
a. Increase P in diet
b. Increase Mg in diet
c. Increase salt in diet (increase H2O intake)
d. Decrease Ca in diet
c. Increase salt in diet (increase H2O intake)
54) A woman bring in a group of budgies that range in age from a few months to 5 years. Two have died, other are sick with ruffled feathers, respiratory distress and lethargy. She feeds them seeds along with vegetables and fruit. Which food item is most likely responsible for their deaths? a. Olives b. Avocado c. Tomatoes
b. Avocado
55) An adult horse with limb edema, icterus, anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia,
neutrophilic inclusions has what?
a. Ehrlichia risticii (Potomac Horse fever)
b. Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis)
c. Equine viral arteritis
d. Equine herpes virus
b. Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis)
56) Cat with facial edema and swelling and…
a. Lily
b. Arsenic
c. Propylene glycol
d. Oleander
?
57) Feline presented for stiffness and lameness in all 4 limbs. On PE all 4 limbs have decreased range of motion in joints. Radiographs show multiple locations of vertebral spondylosis and exostoses around joints. Owner feeds home cooked diet of exclusively liver. Diagnose which nutrient disease? a. Hypocalcemia b. Vitamin D deficiency c. Vitamin A toxicity d. Vitamin E toxicity
c. Vitamin A toxicity
58) Managing arthritic pain in cats
a. Ketoprofen
b. Carprofen
c. Butorphanol
?
59) A cow with urolithasis. What do you do?
a. Add NaCl 12-16% to the top of the feed
60) What is a common cause of sickness/death of horses?
a. Feed mixed with chicken feed
b. 4th harvest alfalfa
c. Hay
a. Feed mixed with chicken feed (high in nitrites)
61) Arthrogryposis (ankylosis of the limbs) and intestines of the fetus are in the placenta of a pregnant horse. This is caused from: a. Uterine torsion b. Uterine tear c. Schistosomus reflexus
c. Schistosomus reflexus
62) A horse treated with TMS becomes febrile, tachypeic, and tachycardic. What do you do?
a. Stop drug and re-examine immediately
b. Stop drug and wait 2 weeks
c. Continue the drug
a. Stop drug and re-examine immediately
63) Terminate pregnancy in dog
a. Prostaglandins
b. DES
c. Estradiol
d. Progesterone
a. Prostaglandins
64) Head tilt and ear droop in rabbits– causative agent(s)?
a. Encephalitozoon cuniculi and Pasteurella multocida (Snuffles)??
65) EBA (foothill abortion) is transmitted by:
a. Ticks (Ornithodoros coriaceus)
b. Mosquitoes
c. Culicoides
a. Ticks (Ornithodoros coriaceus)
66) What predisposes to enterolith formation in horses
a. Oat
b. Alfalfa
c. Rye
d. Timothy
b. Alfalfa (higher pH and more Ca, Mg and Sulfur)
67) Eye surgery = non-depolarizing NMBA (atracurium)
a. Propofol
b. Ketamine
a. Propofol
68) Horse with dental disease of caudal maxillary molars. Where can this spread to?
a. maxillary sinusitis
b. TMG
c. Eyes
a. maxillary sinusitis
69) What is common cause of mastitis?
a. Contagious: Strep agalactiae, S. aureus, M. bovis
b. Environmental: E. coli, Strep dysagalactiae, strep uberus
c. DX: elevated SCC (nucleated cells found in milk >600,000), CMT (>1+), culture
d. TX: frequent milking, intramammary (Cefa) and systemic antibiotics, fluids, NSAIDs (banamine); cull if chronic
70) Where do you hear a ping for RDA
?
71) Young dog with patchy places of alopecia and lymphadenopathy what tests do you do?
a. LN aspirate, scrape, fungal culture, …?
72) A brachycephalic dog of some sort comes in post trauma. Its eye is hanging out of its socket, the eye is hemorrhagic, and its cornea is ripped open and the iris has prolapsed through:
a. Enucleate the eye and place on systemic Abx
73) Which drug is contraindicated for an animal with increased intracranial pressure?
a. Ketamine
b. Propofol
c. Diazepam
a. Ketamine
