Eye, ear, respiratory system Flashcards
What causes infectious bovine keratoconjuctivitis in cattle?
Moraxella bovis
What causes ovine keratoconjunctivitis?
Mycoplasma conjunctivae and Chlamydia pecorum
What causes otitis in calves?
Mycoplasma Boris and Histophilis somni (sleepers)
Bacterial and fungal infections are the primary cause of ear infections. True or false?
False they are secondary infections and you must look for underlying cause
What bacteria cause otitis externa?
- Staphylococcus
- Streptococcus
- Enterococcus
- PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA
- E. coli
- Malassezia pachydermatis (yeast)
What causes conjunctivitis in cats?
- Chlamydia felis (feline pneumonitis)
- Mycoplasma felis (mycoplasma conjunctivitis)
What are some systemic bacterial infections?
- Rickettsia
- Anaplasma
- Ehrlichia
- Brucellosis
- Leptospirosis
What are some systemic fungal infections?
- Blastomycosis
- Cryptococcus
- Histoplasmosis
- Cocidiodomycosis
- Protothecosis
What causes equine recurrent uveitis?
Leptospira infection
What causes guttural pouch mycosis?
- Streptococcus equi sub equi (occurs as complication)
- Aspergillus sp
What are some pathogens that can cause HORSE keratitis?
- Aspergillus
- Fusarium
- Candida
- Pseudomonas
- Staphylococcus
- Streptococcus
Primary upper respiratory tract infections are caused mainly by bacteria. True or false?
False (primary is viral)
Bordetella bronchiseptica causes what in dogs?
Tracheobronchitis and pneumonia
Chronic rhino sinusitis may come from what fungi?
Aspergillosis and Cryptococcus
What causes nasal polyp/tumor like growth in animals and humans?
Rhinosporidium seeberi
What are some common systemic fungal infections with primary lung involvement (ex. pyogranulomatous lesions)?
- Blastomyces dermatitidis
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- Coccidiodes immitis
Histoplasmosis causes what in dogs?
- GI involvement is common
- protein losing enteropathy
- peripheral lymphadenopathy
- polyarthropathy
- osteomyelitis
Histoplasmosis is a disseminated disease in cats. True or false?
True
Blastomycosis is endemic where?
Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio river valley
Blastomycosis involves what body parts?
Cutaneous, respiratory, ocular, bone forms are seen
Cryptococcosis involver what body parts?
Nasal cavity, CNS, ocular, GI
Cutaneous lesions is a marker for disseminated disease in what animal? (Cryptococcosis)
cats
Coccidiodomycosis causes what?
lung involvement with dissemination to bones