Bovine Flashcards
Which bovine disease is has neurological signs and abortion and is most often contracted through contaminated silage?
listeriosis
The two most common bacteria agents that cause mastitis in cattle are:
Streptococcus and Staphylococcus
Mycobacterium is a slow growing bacteria that eventually leads to a profuse watery diarrhea in older cattle which is very difficult to remove from a herd. This disease is called:
Johne’s disease
This venereal disease of bovine causes late term abortions, is caused by a protozoan, and may be present when artificially inseminating with frozen semen?
trichomoniasis
This foreign disease causes vesicles in distinct areas and could cause a billion dollars in economic loss within the first year if it had an outbreak in the united states?
foot and mouth disease
Which disease has a prevention plan which includes prophylactic placement of a magnet?
Traumatic Reticuloperitonitis
Wooden tongue
tuberculosis
Which bacteria grows in anaerobic conditions and releases potent toxins?
clostridium
Which neonatal calf diarrheas has public health/zoonotic significance?
Salmonella, Clostridium perfringes
Which vaccine would you NOT consider for feedlot cattle?
Clostridials (7-way)
P. multocida, M. haemolytica
Vibriosis, Leptospira
BVD, IBR, BRSV, PI3
Vibriosis, Leptospira
The California Mastitis Test (CMT) Tests Somatic Cell Counts. What are considered Somatic Cells?
Epithelial Cells, WBCs
Weaned calves are at risk to become ill when weaned and placed in the feedlot. Which bovine diseases are involved with the shipping fever complex?
BRSV (Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus)
PI3 (Parainfluenza-3)
Haemophilus somnus, Mannheimia haemolitica
IBR (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis)
Which causes abortion storms in cattle and is highly zoonotic from the urine?
lepto
Which disease in cattle has a clinical sign of a sweet smelling breath?
ketosis
What is a Freemartin?
A heifer calf born twinned to a bull
While examining a high-producing dairy cow that is off-feed, the vet puts her stethoscope on the left side in a line between the left elbow and the cow’s hip bones and starts flicking her fingers against the side of the cow while listening to the stethoscope. What is she listening for?
The musical ping of a left displaced abomasum
When is a typical dairy cow likely to develop ketosis?
First 6 weeks after parturition when milk production just gets underway
Dr. Dan just grabbed his umbilical tape and Buhner needle for a farm call to a cattle farm. What disease would he most likely be heading out for?
prolapse
what medication treats Grass Tetany
Magnesium
What medicine treats Ketosis
Glucose
what medicine treats frothy bloat
surfactant
what medicine treat polioencephalomalacia
thiamine
what medicine treats milk fever
calcium gluconate
