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Exam 3 Path II Flashcards

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What are the 3 systems that the respiratory tract is divided into?

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  1. Conducting system- containing goblet cells
  2. Transition system- bronchioles with clara cells and non-ciliated secretory cells
  3. Exchange system-alveoli lines with type 1 and type 2 pneumocytes
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Which cells are more abundant in the exchange system of the respiratory system?

Type 1 or Type 2 pneumocytes

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type 1

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What type of pneumocyte is a simple squmous cells that is highly susceptible to injury?

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type 1 pneumocyte

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Which type of pneumocyte is cuboidal, produces surfactant, resillient to injury, and has the ability to multiply and replace type 1 pneumocytes?

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type 2 pneumocytes

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What organ system is involved in phonation, olfaction, temperature regulation, acid–base balance, blood pressure regulation and gas exchange?

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respiratory

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T/F: Mannhemimia haemolytica is only found underpathogenic situations in cattle

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False.

Mannheimia haemolytica is both a potential pathogen and part of the normal flora

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Which animals have intracascular macrophages (PIMs)? (name 4)

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ruminants, cats, pigs, horses

they are within the lumen of alveolar capillaries and protect against blood-borne respiratory Dz

In dogs, humans and lab rodents, the responsibility of removing circulatory bacteri and other particles in blood is taken on by kuffer cells and splenic macrophages

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What factors predispose animals to bacterial pneuonia?

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  1. Viruses
  2. Stress
  3. Dehydration
  4. Pulmonary Edema (ie in Left CHF)
  5. Uremia
  6. Ammonia
  7. Immunosuppression
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Ethmoidal hematomas are common in what species and age group?

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old horses

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What are 3 top DDx for epistasis in a horse?

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  1. Ethmoidal hematoma - old horses
  2. Exercise induced pulmonary hemorrhage
  3. Guttural pouch mycosis
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Young bovine. Name the disease and the etiology

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Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR)

BHV-1

———————————-

MDx: Fibrinous rhinits

Characteristics: diptheric membrane (fibrinosuppurative exudate mixed with necrotic debri), hyperemia, hemorrage, erosion, ulceration

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Which multifactoral disease in pigs is thought to be the result of a combined infection of Bordetella bronchiseptica and Pasteurella multocida types D and A?

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Atrophic Rhinitis

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  • See symettrical atrophy of nasal turbinates with lateral deviation of the septum
  • May lead to facial deformaties, congestion, exudate, secondary pulmonary infections
  • The toxigenic strains of P. multocida produce cytotoxins which inhibit osteoblastic activity and promote osteoclastic reabsorption of the nasal turbinates.
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Which disease/etiology in swine produces a transient rhinitis in pigs 3-5 weeks of age that on histopathology produces cytomegly of nasal epithelium and glands containing basophilic intranuclear inclusions? This disease can also produce a fatal systemic infection in suckling pigs under 3 weeks of age

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Inclusion Body Rhinitis

Porcine Cytomegalovirus (suid herpesvirus 2 [SHV-2])

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Which two disease can clead to rhinotracheitis and conjunctivitis in kittens?

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  • Feline herpesvirus 1 (Feline viral rhinotracheitis [FVR])
  • Feline calicivirus (also produces an ulcerative glossitis)

In immunocompromised animals it can lead to diffuse interstitial pneumonia (pic below) and secondary bacterial infections

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Which aquatic protozoa produces a granulomatous rhinitis in dogs (and cattle)?

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Rhinosporidium seeberi

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What are the three diseases of the gutteral pouch that we are concerned of?

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  1. Guttural pouch tympany- young horses- due to malformation in the Eustachian tube, resulting in the accumulation of air. may be asymptomatic to painful.
  2. Strangles (Streptococcus equi) - Suppurative Eustachitis with fistulation and lymphadenopahty, in chronic cases inspissated exudate and chondroids develop
  3. Gutteral pouch mycosis - due to close association with cranial nerves (7, 9, 10, 11, 12) and internal carotid artery , and the angioinvasive nature of the mycosis, infection can led to peripheral neuropathy and fatal nose bleeds
    • Apergillus fumigatus
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Nasal neoplasia are usually _____

(malignant or benign)

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malignant

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Can lead to difficulties breathing, facial deformaties, nasal discharge and epistasis

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If you have a3 y/o dog with a nasal tumor, is it more likely to be a carcinoma or a fibrosarcoma?

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malignant fibrosarcomas

they are more common in young animals

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Sheep. Etology? Disease?

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Enzootic nasal carcinoma (or adenocarcinoma)
Etiology: Enzootic Nasal Tumor virus (ENTV, an ovine beta-retrovirus)

usually subclinical

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Necrotic laryngitis (Calf diphtheria) is caused by what Secondary infection following trauma or viral infection (IBR).?

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Fusobacterium necrophorum

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abundant cheesy exudate can lead to pneumonia

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Laryngeal hemiplegia (paralysis) – “roaring” in horses is due to Atrophy of in left dorsal cricoarytenoid muscle following damage/neuropathy to what nerve?

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LEFT recurretent laryngeal nerve

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What disease can cause multifocal necrotizing hepatitis, ulcerative necrotising ruminitis, abortion, systemic disease in young calves and Ulcerative and necrotizing laryngo-tracheitis?

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IBR

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Which bacteria plays a primary role in multifactoral canine infectious tracheobronchitis (kennel cough)?

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Bordetella bronchiseptica

CAV-2, CPIV-2 and to a lesser extend canine distemper virus and Mycoplasma spp., have predisposing roles.

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Which disease in horses result in:

  • hypertrophy of external abdominal oblique
    muscles as a result of expiratory efforts= “heave line”
  • head and neck extended
  • nasal flaring
  • GOBLET CELL METAPLASIA in BRONCHIOLES with increase mucus production
  • Diffuse bronchoconstriction
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Recurrent Airway Obstruction (RAO)

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AKA Heaves, chronic bronchiolitis-emphysema
complex, “broken wind”, COPD

Etiology: allergen, commonly fungal spores in hay

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These compose what barrier:

  • vascular endothelium
  • basement membrane of the endothelial cell
  • basement membrane of the type I pneumocyte
  • cytoplasm of the of the type I pneumocyte
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Blood-Air Barrier

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Epistaxis only occurs in what precent of horses affected with Exercise-induced pulomonary haemorrhage (EIPH)?

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1-10%

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In Exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH), in what part of the lunge does haemorrhage typically occur?

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dorso-caudal portions of the caudal lung lobes

Haemorrhage is Probably the result of marked elevations in arterial and capillary pressures during strenuous exercise

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What is the most common cause of epistasis in cattle?

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Pulmonary Abcessation

Due to vena cava thrombosis, valvular endocarditis –> septic thrombi

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T/F: Pulmonary anthracosis can lead to significant pulmonary disease

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False!

Pulmonary anthracosis has NO clinical significance

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What has happened if the Pulmonary parenchyma appears dark-red and sunken with a fleshy consistency and the lung tissue does not float?

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Atelectasis- Incomplete expansion of the lungs or portions of the lungs.

Congenital or acquired.

Acquired can be divided in compressive (caused by space-occupying lesions like hydrothorax, hemothorax, pleuritis), massive (pneumothorax) or obstructive (inflammation, edema).

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What is the cause of patchy pulmonary atelectasis in a calf that was stained yellow/green at birth?

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aspiration of meconium and amniotic fluid

33
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Define Pulmonary Emphysema

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“Permanent enlargement of air-spaces distal to the terminal bronchiole, accompanied by destruction of alveolar walls”

34
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What will rupture of a bullous emphysema lead to?

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fatal pneumothorax

35
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Mdx?

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Interstitial emphysema

36
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What three virsuses cause interstitial pneumonia in cattle?

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  1. Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR): Caused by BoHV-1
  2. Para-influenza-3 virus (PI-3 virus)
  3. Bovine Respiratory Syncytial virus (BRSV)
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Which two viruses in cattle cause a transient rhino-tracheitis and broncho interstitial pneumonia with the formation of eosinophilic intracytoplasmic inclusions bodies and syncytial cells

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Para-influenza-3 virus (PI-3 virus) and Bovine Respiratory Syncytial virus (BRSV)

IBR produces intranuclear inclusion bodies

38
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Mdx? Dz? Possible etiologies?

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Chronic suppurative bronchoneumonia

Bovine enzootic pneumonia

Etiology: begins with viruses Mycoplasmas, Chlamydophila, followed by
opportunistic bacteria such as Pasteurella multocida, Arcanobacterium pyogenes, Histophilus somni, Mannheimia haemolytica and E.coli.

Rich in neutrophila

Common sequels = Abscessation and bronchiectasis

39
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Abscessation and bronchiectasis are common sequels of what disease in cattle?

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Mulifactoral Enzootic Pneumonia (Chronic suppurative bronchopneumonia,)

40
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Marbling appearance of the pulmonary parenchyma on cross-section (due to coagulation necrosis) and fibrinous bronchopneumonia are characteristic of what disease in cattle?

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Pneumonic mannheimiosis (“shipping fever”)

Mannheimia haemolytica

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Most economically important respiratory disease of cattle in North America, particularly in feedlot cattle.

Coagulation necrosis due to toxins produced by M. haemolytica

Ddx for fibrinous pneumonia with NO marbling = Histophilus somni

41
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Bovine Lungs. Provide 2 Ddx

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  • Histophilus somni & Mannheimia haemolytica*
  • ———————————*

Mannheimia haemolytica- marbling on cross -section

Histophilus somni- also produces TME, pneumonia, pleuritis, myocarditis, arthritis, abortion, abcessasion, vasculitis

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Which bacteria in feedlot cattle causes a chronic caseous necrotizing bronchopneumonia of the cranial central portion of the lungs and severe chronic fibrinous arthritis?

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Mycoplasma bovis

43
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Cattle. Etiology? type of necrosis?

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Mycoplasma bovis

Caseous Necrosis

44
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How may lesion os Mycobacterium bovis appear in deer and other wildlife?

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Abcesses

instead of granulomatous lesion typically seen in humans, cattle and other animals

45
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Which bacteria produces a Multifocal granulomatous pneumonia in cattle?

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M. bovis

(maybe M. tuberculosis)

46
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In what lung lobe are parasitic infections (such as Dictyocaulus and Metastrongylus spp.) commonly confined to?

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Caudal lung lobes

47
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What are the names of the lungworms in each of the following species: cattle, horse, pig, sheep/goats?

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Cattle: Dictyocaulus viviparus

Horse: Dictyocaulus arnfeldi

Sheep/goats: Dictyocaulus filaria

Pig: Metastrongylus spp.

  • ——————*
  • confined to the caudal lung lobes.*

Varies from interstitial pneumonia (larval migration) to chronic catarrhal bronchitis (intrabronchial adult parasites) to granulomatous pneumonia. Predisposition to secondary bacterial infections.

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In cattle, What Dz is characterized by the presence of edema, interstitial emphysema, hyaline membranes, type II pneumocyte hyperplasia and interstitial fibrosis with cellular infiltrates? What are the possible etiologies?

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Atypical Interstitial Pneumonia (AIP) of cattle

  1. Bovine pulmonary edema & emphysema (“fog fever”)
  2. Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)
  3. Reinfection syndrome (hypersensitivity to Dictyocaulus sp or BRSV).
  4. Milk allergy: type I hypersensitivity in cows sensitized to their own milk casein and lactalbumin.
  5. Ingestion of moldy potatoes that contain 4-ipomeanol which are metabolized by mixed function oxydases in the lung (Clara cells) to a potent pneumotoxicant
49
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What disease has this pathogenesis:

L tryptophan present in the pasture is metabolized in the rumen to 3- methylindole → absorbed into the blood and carried to the lungs → metabolized by the mixed function oxidases of non-ciliated bronchiolar epithelial cells (“Clara” cells) into a highly pneumotoxic compound that causes extensive necrosis of bronchiolar epithelial cells and type I pneumocytes (diffuse alveolar damage).

A

Fog Fever- Bovine pulmonary edema & emphysema

Atypical Interstitial Pneumonias

50
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Which etiology causes Ovine Progressive Pneumonia (OPP), lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP), non-suppurative encephalitis (Visna), lymphocytic arthritis, lymphofollicular mastitis and vasculitis in SHEEP?

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Ovine Lentivirus - Maedi Visna

lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia (LIP) is caused by CAE virus in GOATS

Similar to cattle, PI-3 and RSV can produce an interstitial pneumonia in sheep

51
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What are the common etiology agents associated with Chronic enzootic pneumonia in sheep?

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Mannheimia haemolytica

Pasteurella multocida

PI-3,

adenovirus

reovirus

RSV,
Chlamydophila

Mycoplasmas (mycoplasma ovipneumoniae).

52
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Septicemic pasteurellosis is caused by:

____ _____ in lambs under 3 months

____ ____ in lambs 5-12 months-old

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  • *Mannheimia haemolytica (biotype A)** usually in lambs under 3 months.
  • *Bibersteinia (Pasteurella) trehalosi (biotype T**) usually in lambs 5 to 12 months-old.

Lesions: necrotizing pharyngitis and tonsilitis, septicemia with disseminated intravascular thrombosis and bacteremia. NO lung lesions

53
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Sheep. Mdx? Etiology?

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Multifocal subpleural pneumonitis – Muellerius capillaris

———————————-

Verminous bronchitis isolated to the caudal lung lobes in sheep and goats is caused by Dictyocaulus filaria.

54
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What do transient viral pneumonias predispose horses to?

Ex. Equine viral rhinopneumonitis (EHV-1, EHV-
4), equine influenza, equine viral arteritis (EVA) virus and
equine adenovirus

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secondary bacterial pneumonias (P. Multocida, Streptococcus spp., E.coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Rhodococcus equi)

“airway hyper-responsiveness” and Recurrent Airway Obstruction (chronic bronchiolitis-emphysema complex, “heaves”).

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Which equine virus leads to severely edematous lungs that histologically show vasculitits and multinucleated syncytial cells in the endothelium of small pulmonary blood vessels and alveolar capillaries?

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Equine Morbillivirus (Hendra virus disease)

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Emerging/Sporadic respiratory disease in Australlia

No inclusion bodies

Clinical signs are non-specific and include fever, anorexia, respiratory distress and nasal discharge

56
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Which opportunistic fungal organism can cause fatal pneumonia with foamy eosinophilic proteinaceous material within alveoli in animals with immunospuppression (SCIDs in arabians and jack russels, AIDs) or PRRs?

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Pneumocytosis carinii = Pneumocystosis

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Which virus commonly causes an interstial pneumonia with basophilic or amphophilic intranuclear inclusion bodies in arabian foals with SCIDs?

A

Adenovirus

58
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Which Facultative intracellular gram positive bacterium causes both pyogranulomatous pneumonia and enterocolitis/lymphadenitis with exstensive caseous necrosis in foals, that is unresponsive to routine broad-spectrum antibiotics?

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Rhodococcus equi

Are able to survive within macrophages because they avoid phagocytosis by inducing defective phagosome-lysosome fusion

potentially zoonotic in immunocompromised individuals

59
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What is a common complication of samonellosis in horses that leads to a multifocal necro-hemorrhagic pneumonia?

A

embolic Aspergillus infection (Mycotic pneumonia)

——————————–

fungus gains access to portal circulation through ulcerative GI lesions that then become lodged into the lung capillary beds.

60
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What are the two most common viral interstitial pneumonias in pigs?

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PRRS and PCV-2(aka PMWS)

————————————

Both can lead to infections with fungus Pneumocystis carinni

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS): characterized by late-term abortions, stillbirths and respiratory disease in young pigs (interstitial pneumonia)

Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS): Causes progressive emaciation in weaned pigs. The causative agent is PCV-2. May result in interstitial pneumonia.

——————————————-

Less common viruses:

Swine influenza

Porcine Respiratory Coronavirus (PRCV): Sporadic cause of mild bronc hointerstitialpneumonia with necrotizing bronchiolitis.

61
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What is the main pathogen involved in PORCINE enzootic pneumonia?

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Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

——————————–

organism induces a suppurative or cattarrhal bronchopneumonia with BALT hyperplasia that is quite characteristic. Also induces a characteristic fish flesh appearance of lesions.

Low mortality (unless complicated), high morbidity/costs

62
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What is the etiology of a suppurative or cattarrhal bronchopneumonia with BALT hyperplasia and “fish flesh” appearance in pigs?

A

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae

main causative agent of porcine enzootic pneumonia

lesions located in the cranial-ventral portions of the lungs

63
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Young Pig. Dz? Etiology?

A

Glasser’s disease (Haemophilus parasuis)

produces a fibrinous pleuritis and pneumonia

64
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Pig with fibrinous necrotising bronchopneumonia characterized by hemorrhage, coagulative necrosis and thrombosis (creating a marbling appearance) isolated in the middle and caudal lung lobes.

Dz? Etiology?

A
  • *Porcine Contagious Pleuropneumonia
  • Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae***

**** KNOW THIS- only one in this region of lungs****

65
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What are the most common causes of infectious and non-infectious pneumonias in dogs and cats?

A
  • Infectious:
    • Canine disteper
    • Kennel Cough (infectious tracheobronchitis)
  • non-infectious:
    • Uremia
    • paraquat toxicity
66
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What kind of pneumonia is usually unilateral in the upper right lung lobe in dogs/cats?

A

Aspiration pneumonia

Can become complicated

More severe in carnivores >herbivores due to increase acidity of GI contents

67
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What type of pneumonia would most likely cause this?

A

Granulomatous/Mycotic Pneumonia

Etiology: Blastomycosis, Histoplasmosis, Cryptococcus, Coccidioides etc.

68
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Edx?

A

Uremic pneumonitis

——————————————

Von Cossa stain revealed widespread calcification

69
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What is the most common etiology of parasitic pneumonia in cats?

A
  • Aelurostrongylus abstrusus*
  • ————————————-*

Snails and slugs are the intermediate hosts.

70
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T/F: Pulmonary neoplasia are mostly metastatic in origin

A

TRUE

If there is a primary tumor, it is usually malignant

Neoplasia is more common in dogs and cats > large animals

71
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Mature Sheep. Mdx? Etiology?

A

Ovine pulmonary carcinoma (pulmonary adenomatosis).

Caused by transmissible retrovirus

grossly resembles suppurative pneumonia HOWEVER microscopically you will see neoplastic proliferation of bronchial epithelium

72
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What is a common cause of pyothorax in cats?

A

Ruptured abcess

Pasteurella Multocida

73
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Cat. What is on the pleural surface?

A

“sulfur granules”

nocardiosis (Nocardia asteroides)

74
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What important pathogen in rabbits causes a fibrinosuppurative pleuropneumonia, rhinitis (snuffles), abscesses, repro tract infections, ear infections and septicemia?

A

Pasteurellosis- P. multocida

MOST COMMON DISEASE IN RABBITS

75
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What is a common cause of granulomatous airsacculitis and pneumonia in birds?

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Aspergillus spp. -or- Mycobacterium avium

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