Exotic rotations MCQs online Flashcards
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What is a common cause of feather plucking in parrots?
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Inappropriate pair bonding with owners.
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What is the most common causative agent for respiratory disease in rabbits?
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Pasteurella multocida
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What prokinetic drug is used in rabbits?
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Ranitidine
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Watery droppings in an african grey may be due to ?
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Excessive dietary fruit
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Watery droppings in an orange winged amazon may be due to?
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renal disease
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What toxin is commonly ingested by swans?
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lead
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An african grey parrot is presented with pale mucous membranes and yellow green Urates - what diagnostic test would you do?
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Chlamydophila PCR
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Occular discharge in the rabbit is most frequently due to?
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Dacryocystitis
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the treatment for Chlamydophila in parrots targets?
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Doxycycline for 4-6 weeks either once a week by injection or once a daily orally. azithromycin and fluoroquinolones also have some effect. It targets the extracellular elementary bodies.
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Creamy white plaques in the oral cavity or crop of a pigeon would NOT be caused by?
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Coccidiosis
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Which chelator is used to treat lead toxicity in birds?
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CaEdTA
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When would penicillin be indicated for rabbits?
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For treatment of treponema cuniculi
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Which drug would you prescribe to treat e cuniculi infection?
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Fenbendazole
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Which of the following antifungals would be most suitable to treat aspergillosis in an african grey with mild clinical signs
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Low dose terbinfine
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Blunting of the choanal and dermal papillae is commonly seen in parrots associate with which condiition?
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Hypovitaminosis A
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What is the recommended site for obtaining a blood sample from an obese rabbit doe?
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Lateral saphenous vein
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A client presents with a yellow crested cockatoo with watery droppings, what is this due to ?
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Polyuria
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A dyspnoeic harris hawk with open beak breathing, what should you do?
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Place in an oxygen enriched cage
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What is true regarding lead poisoning in swans?
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Eosophageal impaction may occur with lead poisoning
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What is the maintenance fluid rate for a rabbit?
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100mg/kg/day
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What would be the best method to repair a mid shaft fracture of the tibiotarsus in a 500g bird?
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Tie in (hybrid) fixator
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What is the anatomical structure called the syrinx?
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Tracheal bifurcation into the bronchi
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What is the incidence of uterine adenocarcinoma in a rabbit?
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50-80%
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To reduce the weight of an obese rabbit what should you do?
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Reduce the amount of pelleted diet and feed more hay
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In a sick bird, how much blood is it reasonable to collect?
0.5% blood volume from the right jugular.
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In a dehydrate dbird, what blood parameters would be elevated?
Uric acid, total protein, PCV
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What is the dental formula of an adult rabbit?
2/1 0/0 3/2 3/3
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What should not be given orally to a rabbit?
clindamycin
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What would be the first fee you gave to an emaciated raptor that has escaped for a few days?
A sugar based liquid fe into the birds proventriculus via a tube.
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How long is the duration of analgesia provided by butorphanol in rabbits?
2-4 hours
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A cockatiel is presented with ocular discharge and yellow green urates - which is the most likely diagnosis?
Chlamydophila
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Excessive egg laying is especially common in which birds?
Cockatiels
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What is thee average daily water intake of a rabbit?
50-100ml/kg
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Which opioid is most suitable in birds?
Butorphanol
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Which is the best therapy for a Chlamydophila infection in birds
Doxycyline
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Which is the most useful diagnostic procedure for evaluating liver disease in a bird?
Coelioscopic examination
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a 3.2kg rabbit is being anaesthetised using medetomidine 1mg/ml at 0.1mg/kg ketamine 100mg/ml at 5mg/kg and butorphanol 10mg/ml at 0.5mg/kg administered IM. calculate volumes you will administer
Medetomidine 0.32ml, ketamine 0.16ml, butorphanol 0.16ml
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Sore hocks are particularly seen with which breed of rabbit?
Rex
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A suitable injectable anaesthetic regime for a rabbit undergoing OVH would be?
Fentanyl/fluanisone + midazolam
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mild to severe crusting of the pinnae of a rabbit may be seen due to
Psoroptes cuniculi
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A striking feature of the normal radiographic anatomy of the chinchilla is
large tympanic bullae
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The best way to thoroughly evaluate rabbit dental disease is
Radiography and oral examination under GA
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an all seed diet for parrots is deficient in what?
Vitamin A and calcium
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When should penicillin be indicated for rabbits?
For treatment of treponema cuniculi
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Cyromazine is used to prevent which condition?
Flystrike
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What husbandry is recommended for a grey parrot with low blood ionised calcium?
Provide artificial UVB
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Which species can absorb large quantities of Ca independently of Vit D?
Rabbits
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What is the best parameter to assess liver function in a bird?
Plasma bile acids
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What is the life expectancy of a rabbit?
6-13 years
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Where would you place an IO catheter in a bird?
Proximal tibiotarsus
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What is the rectal body temperature of a rabbit?
38-39C
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What drug would not be suitable for Treating mycoplasma infection in waterfowl?
Amikacin
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What is the max volume of bid which can safely be taken at any one time from a bird
10ml/kg
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What is the standard diagnostic test for PBFD?
whole blood for viral DNA by PCR
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A 2.5kg rabbit requires a course of enrofloxacin at 10mg/kg orally daily. to cover a 10 day course you need to dispense how much?
10ml
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Which rabbit disease is potentially zonotic?
E cuniculi
| Also cheyletiella parasitovorax mildly zoonotic
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A 2.23kg rabbit is being treated orally with ranitidine syrup (15mg/ml) at a dose of 4mg/g . approx how much should it be given each time it is treated?
0.6ml
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What is PBFD?
Psittacine beak and feather disease
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How can monomorphic birds be sexed?
blood or feather pulp sample for DNA testing
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a 2yo harris hawk presented with acute onset open mouth breathing and cyansis. which immediate action should you take?
Airsac cannulation.
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What is the most appropriate timing of vaccinations for myxomatosis and RHD in rabbits using the combined vaccination?
5wks old and annual boosters
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Which is not a suitable route for fluid therapy in birds?
Intracoelomic
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What is the recommended entry site to determine the gender of a parrot with endoscopy?
left side of abdomen
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What is the most common cause of dental disease in rabbits?
Lack of sufficient fibre (hay and grass) in the diet.
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A healthy rabbit to be used as a blood donor weighs 2kg - how much blood can be taken?
20mls
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How would you best advise a client to encourage his parrot to eat a pelleted commercial parrot diet?
Mix the diet with fruit juice
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What pathology is associated with overdose of fenbdendazole in birds?
Bone marrow suppression
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Why would you examine rabbit and rodents urine with a woods lamp?
Porphyrins fluoresce in the light
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What technique would you use to anaesthetise a cockatiel?
Isoflurane mask induction
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A heterophilic leucocytosis often with a monocytosis and lymphopenia would be unlikely to be seen in birds with what
PBFD
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What is the best way to trim a pet rabbits incisors?
Use a burr in a conscious rabbit
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Which birds are dimorphic?
Budgerigar
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Which vaccine is commercially available for rabbits?
Myxomatosis, rabbit haemorrhagic disease
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What is the best site for obtaining a blood sample in a corn snake?
Ventral coccygeal vein
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What is the dental formula for hystricomorphs?
1/1 0/0 1/1 3/3
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What animal should not be picked up by the tail?
gerbil
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What is not suitable for carapacial shell repair in a tortoise that has a fracture which is now infected?
fibreglass
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A rate is presented with warty growths on its ears, what is this most likely due to ?
Nododeres muris infection
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What is the average soft tissue wound ealing time in reptiles?
6-8 weeks
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What is the recommended technique of sexing snakes?
probing the hemipenes
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What animal is not sexed by ano genital distance?
guinea pig
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A retrovirus has been implicated in case of ibd in snakes. what is the acronym IBD?
inclusion body disease
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Which rodent commonly suffers from cystic ovarian disease?
guinea pig
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What is gout in reptiles?
deposition of uric acid crystals in body tissues
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What is the common causative agent for respiratory disease in guinea pigs?
bordetella bronchiseptica
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What is a common infectious agent causing respiratory disease in rats
Mycoplasma pulmonis
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Which lizards do not have acrodont dentition and is not prone to dental disease? Bearded dragon, chameleon, iguana
Green iguana
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The most probable clinical signs in a snake with severe cryptosporidium serpentes infection is what?
a mid body swelling
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Which mammal should be starved prior to GA?
Ferret - for 4-6 hours
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A four year old ferret is presented with general weakness, lethargy and posterior paralysis, which is the most likely cause?
Insulinoma
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What hormone is elevated in ferret adrenal gland disease?
Androstenedione
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Which antibiotic would be suitable for a mixed aerobe and anaerobe infection in a snake?
ceftazidime
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Which virus has been associated with chelitis in guinea pigs?
Pox virus
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What may neutering a male ferret predispose to?
Adrenal gland disease
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In a dehydrated chelonian, what blood parameters would be elevated?
Urea, uric acid, sodium
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Which is a zoonosis affecting the skin that can be contracted from handling hedgehogs?
Trichophyton erinaecei
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Neurological signs in a common garter snake are most likely caused by what?
Hypovitaminosis B1
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What technique would you use to anaesthetise a rat?
Isoflurane gas chamber induction
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In order to preserve the vitamin C content in commercial guinea pig food, the diet should be what?
Kept in the dark
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When castrating hystricomorphic rodents what technique should be used?
Closed castration - to avoid herniation
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Gryopus ovalis is a louse that commonly infections which rodent?
guinea pigs
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Which mite is common in ferrets?
Otodectes cyanotis
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In which species is lawsonia intarcellularis a common problem?
hamsters
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How much blood can safely be withdrawn from a healthy 500g chinchilla
1% of bodyweight, 5.0ml
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What technique would you use to anaesthetise a tortoise?
IV propofol
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What is the maintenance fluid rate for reptiles?
30ml/kg
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What vaccination is recommended for ferrets?
Canine distemper
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Ophionyssus natricus is a black and shiny blood sucking mite that can be found in which species?
Snake
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What is the dental formula for myomorphs
1/1 0/0 0/0 3/3
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What is the dental formula for an adult ferret
3/3 1/1 3/3 1/2
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Which vitamin deficiency is most common in guinea pigs?
Vitamin C
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which chelonian species does not hibernate?
Leopard tortoise
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In preparation for hibernation tortoises should be starved for how long?
21-28 days
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Name 3 suitable sites for chelonian venepuncture?
Jugular vein, dorsal tail vein, subcarapacial venous sinus
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What diet is recommended for a guinea pig?
Adlib hay(70%), green leafy veg (25%), small amount of pellets, and fruit 5% of diet max
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What is the dental formula for lagomorphs?
2/1 0/0 3/2 3/3
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What reptile produces live young?
Boa constrictor
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What gland commonly becomes neoplastic in gerbils?
Ventral scent gland
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What is the life expectancy of a green iguana
6-20 years
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What is the most useful biochemistry panel to id renal disease in a spur thigh tortoise ?
Uric acid and phosphorous
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Which species should be bred early to reduce risk of dystocia?
guinea pigs
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a 6 week old syrian hamster is presented with a foul smelling watery diarrhoea and a palpably thickened intestine - the most common aetiological agent causing these signs is what?
Lawsonia intracellularis
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Which neoplastic condition is commonly seen in the ferret?
Insulinoma
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If a reptile requires a course of antibiotics how long would you prescribe it for?
28 days
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What technique would you use to anaesthetise a leopard gecko?
Iso gas chamber induction
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Nasal dermatitis can be seen in which species of rodent?
Gerbil
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What is the common causative bacterial agent for runny nose syndrome in tortoises?
Mycoplasma testudinis
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Which reptile does not have a requirement for uvb for vitamin D metabolism?
leopard gecko
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a 2yo iguana is presented with lethargy, waekness a slight tremor. it appears to be well muscled espec on its legs. the most likely cause of these signs is;
Hypocalcaemia
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What vitamin deficiency can cause occular disease in freshwater turtles?
Vitamin A
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Which reptile is carnivorous?
water dragon
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How many chamber are there in a chelonian heart?
3
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A client wants to purchase a pet for her 10yo daughter, which of these would you recommend?
a guinea pig
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What is the average wound healing time for a shell in a terrestrial chelonian?
1-2 years
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What temperature should a Mediterranean tortoise hibernate at?
5C.
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Ivermectin is not suitable for use in which species?
chelonians - causes flaccid paralysis
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What is the most common fracture site in raptors?
Tibiotarsus
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Which lizards are herbivores?
green iguana
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Red staining on the face of a rat is usually caused by what?
Harderian gland secretions
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Which one of these conditions is likely to lead to anaemia in a jill?
Persistent oestrus
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What is the easiest way to sex a bearded dragon?
Presence of femoral pores
