Dead Animals

Question 1

Which clostridia causes gas gangrene and haemorrhagic enteritis

Answer 1

Clostridia perfringens type A

Question 2

Which clostridia causes lamb dysentery

Answer 2

Clostridium perfringens type B

Question 3

Which clostridia causes struck

Answer 3

Clostridium perfringens type C

Question 4

Which clostridia causes pulpy kidney

Answer 4

Clostridium perfringens type D

Question 5

Which clostridia causes blackleg

Answer 5

Clostridium chauvoei

Question 6

What clostridia causes black disease

Answer 6

Clostridium novyi

Question 7

What clostridia causes braxy

Answer 7

Clostridium septicum
(Septic ulceration in small intestine)

Question 8

What clostridia causes tetanus

Answer 8

Clostridium tetani

Question 9

What clostridia causes gas gangrene without endotoxaemia

Answer 9

Clostridium sordelli

Question 10

What is EBL

Answer 10

Enzootic bovine leukosis

Question 11

How does EBL present

Answer 11

Neoplasia in the bovine reproductive tract

Question 12

How to blackleg lesions look on PM

Answer 12

Focal areas of necrosis across muscles
Often occuring after turnout

Question 13

How should you open a joint for PM

Answer 13

Lateral as if for surgery to be able to take samples

Question 14

What are the 2 ways of opening a head

Answer 14

Saw straight down the middle
Send it to someone else

Question 15

Parasitic causes of sudden death in sheep

Answer 15

Haemonchus contortus
Nematodirus battus
Fasciola hepatica
Coccidiosis

Question 16

Haemonchus contortus

Answer 16

Barbers pole worm colonies the abomasum each can drink 0.5ml a day
20 day life cycle, 14-15dPPP, 5-15k eggs/day
Acute - weakness/collapse, hyperpnoea, tachycardia, sudden death
Sub- acute - bottle jaw
Chronic - I’ll thrift, poor bcs, bottle jaw, lethargy, weakness, microcytic anaemia
Treatment - ivermectin/anozoles