chronic wasting pt 2 Flashcards
Caseous Lymphadenitis
* name
* Presenting complaint and history:
* etiology, pathogen
- CL; CLA; Cheesy Gland
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- Abscessed lymph nodes
- Several animals in group affected
- Some chronic wasting
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- Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
- Thick lipid cell wall
- Intracellular bacteria
Caseous Lymphadenitis
- geography
- significance
- spread
- Very widespread throughout the world
- Sheep, goats, new world camelids, cattle
- Cause of carcass condemnation and trim
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Spread by : - Direct contact
- Coughing
- Fomites (shearing equipment, feeders) * Contaminated feed, bedding, water
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Caseous Lymphadenitis pathogenesis
- Bacteria enter through skin (damaged or intact) > e.g. shearing
- Move to regional lymph node (or systemic)
- Localized in lymph nodes and internal organs
- Form abscesses which break and drain
> External
> Pulmonary - Discharge is very infectious
Caseous Lymphadenitis
Abscess appearance, sheep vs goats
Abscesses
* White to greenish white pus
* Caseous
* Odourless
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Sheep
* Onion skin appearance (lamellated)
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Goats
* No onion skin
Caseous Lymphadenitis
- anatomy affected?
Can affect all lymph nodes
* Internal, external
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Most common is external presentation, especially in head and neck
* Parotid
* Submandibular
* Cervical
* Pre-scapular
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Internal sites:
* Pulmonary !!!
* Mediastinal !!!
* Retropharyngeal !!
* Pituitary
* Spinal
* Other organs
Caseous Lymphadenitis possible effects on animals
- Unapparent
- Sudden death
- Chronic wasting
- Can have internal with no external evidence of disease
Caseous Lymphadenitis
diagnosis
Diagnostics
* Location of abscess
* Laboratory diagnosis
> Culture intact abscess
* Necropsy
> Abscesses in internal organs & lymph nodes
Caseous Lymphadenitis
Treatment
- Lance and drain
- Iodine (2.5% tincture) or chlorhexadine
- Do not inject formaldehyde into abscess
Caseous Lymphadenitis
- environmental control? what to focus on?
Environmental contamination
* Monitor animals monthly – palpate lymph nodes
* Isolation of affected animals
* Cull chronic offenders
* Risk from fomites (feeders, milking equipment)
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Shearing biosecurity
* Shearing order
* Disinfection
* Treat shearing wounds
> Iodine
Caseous Lymphadenitis
- vaccination
- Vaccination of lambs prior to infection / exposure
- Youngstock 12 & 16 weeks of age
> Can start early (8 weeks) but need to give last booster at 16 weeks - Booster of adult sheep annually as a minimum
> More frequently if housed in confinement
> Booster late gestation, before housing, 1 m prior to lambing - Glanvac 6 (Zoetis)
> Contains clostridial antigens so can replace clostridial vaccination - CasBac (Colorado Serum)
> Licensed for sheep but not licensed or recommended for goats
Enzootic Nasal Adenocarcinoma (ENA)
- pathogen?
- prevalence?
- who gets it?
- signs?
- progression
- species
- incidence
- spread
- Retrovirus
- Most commonly diagnosed tumour of sheep
- Thin adult sheep or goat (> 2 years)
- Most often with upper respiratory noise
- Increased inhaled effort
- Sometimes facial deformity, neurologic signs
- Slowly progressive, 100% fatal
- Mostly sheep but also seen in goats
- Sporadically seen as a common disease (0.5 – 15 % incidence)
- Spread by nasal secretions
Enzootic Nasal Adenocarcinoma (ENA)
- diagnosis
- control / prevention
- Diagnosed based on PM findings
- Virus particles found in tumor tissues
- No serologic test
- Isolate affected animals
> Euthanize when have a diagnosis
> Market offspring from last litter - Can test with PCR of nasal secretions
- May be genetic predilection
Gastrointestinal Parasites (Adults)
- who is generally immune? who is not?
- Sheep develop immunity after first grazing season
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We can see parasites if: - If immunity suppressed
> E.g. lambing, poor nutrition, Johne’s disease - Overwhelming challenge
> E.g. Haemonchus contortus - Goats don’t develop immunity – ever!
Scrapie
- presentation? (most commonly)
- Most common presentation is wasting
- Include in differentials when investigating a flock/herd problem
Take home messages
- importance and prevalence of chronic wasting
- presentation
- common causes
- important rule out
- Chronic wasting is a common presenting complaint in sheep and goats, and may be under recognized on some farms
- It may present at an individual animal or group level
- Common causes: competition, dental disease, MV, CAE, Johne’s, CL,
ENA, parasitism, lameness - Uncommon but important (reportable) rule-out: Scrapie