Farm Flashcards
Red water disease
Clostridium hemolyticum (Novyi type D): treat with penicillin or oxytetracycine
Postpartum endometritis
Arcanobacterium pyogenes
Postparturient hemoglobinuria
Hypophosphatemia: decreases ATP in RBCs
Contagious mastitis pathogens
Strep agalactiae + staph aureus + corynebacterium bovis + mycoplasma spp.
Environmental mastitis pathogens (7)
Strep uberus + strep dysgalactiae + pseudomonas aeruginosa + E. coli + enterobacter aerogenes + Arcanobacterium pyogenes + proteus spp.
Woody tongue
Actinobacillus lignieresii
Lumpy jaw
Actinomyces bovis
Type 1 vagal indigestion
Free gas bloat: secondary to bronchopneumonia –> mediastinal LN enlargement
Type 2 vagal indigestion
Failure of omasal transport: secondary to hardwire disease
Type 3 vagal indigestion
Failure of pyloric outflow: Hypochloremia + retention of bicarbonate –> metabolic alkalosis + hypokalemia + paradoxical aciduria
Ergotism
Claviceps purpura fungal infection from rye, oats, wheat or Kentucky bluegrass
Elso heel
Hereditary spastic paresis –> stiff hocks
Ringworm
Trichophyton verrucosum: treat with lime sulfur or
0.5% sodium hypochlorite or 0.5% chlorhexidine or 1% povidone iodine or natamycin or enilconazole
Hypoderma spp:
Cattle grub: migrate to epidural fat + mature and burst through skin of the back –> treat with ivermectin in early fall as larvae migrate
Sarcophaga spp.
Flesh flies: eggs deposited in wounds or ulcers
Simulium flies
Buffalo gnats or black flies: adult females suck blood causing fly bother
Anopheles
Mosquitos that carry malaria and West Nile Virus
Malignant edema
Clostridium: septicum, novyi type B, perfringens type A, sordelli