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
Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis
Johne’s disease
Dictyocaulus viviparous
Cattle lung worm
Babesia
Rhipicephalus tick vector (formerly Boophlus annulatus tick)
Vesicular stomatitis
Rhabdovirus
Foot-and-mouth disease
Picornavirus
Bluetongue
Reovirus
BVD
Flavivirus
Bovine papilloma virus-1
Penile warts in young bulls
Causes for colic
Intussusception + cecal dilation and torsion + abomasal volvulus
Epizootic abortion
Unknown etiology vectored by Ornithodoros ticks
Winter dysentery
Suspected coronavirus
Listeriosis
Penicillin
Anaplasmosis
Tetracycline
Necrotic laryngitis
Calf diphtheria: Tetracycline IV + SC long acting
Ovine herpes virus type 2
Malignant catarrhal fever
Heartwater disease
Ehrlichia ruminantium spread in Africa/West Indies by Amblyomma ticks
Interdigital necrobacillosis
Infectious foot rot: treat with single dose of florfenicol
Salmonella Dublin
Vaccinate calves + cull carrier cows
Treponema spirochete
Hairy foot warts: treat with topical tetracycline/lincomycin or foot baths
Histophilus somni
Thromboembolic meningoencephalitis: treat early with antimicrobials
Frothy bloat
Treat with poloxalene orally
Prohibited drugs (9)
Diethyl stilbestrol + chloramphenicol + nitroimidazoles + clenbuterol + fluoroquinolones + vancomycin + nitrofurans + phenylbutazone + sulfa drugs
Neonatal calf diarrhea
Cryptosporidium + rotavirus + salmonella + coronavirus + enteropathogenic E. coli
Cochliomyia hominivorax
Screwworm: blue-green fly lays eggs at edges of wounds
IBR
White fibrinonecrotic plaques
Preconditioning calves for feedlot
Vaccines: IBR + BVD + PI3 + Clostridial diseases as well as dehorning, deworming and castrating
Mycoplasma bovis
Ear infections in calves + pneumonia, arthritis, mastitis and abortion in cows
USDA
Meat + poultry (including eggs) + catfish
FDA
Food + food labels + use of veterinary drugs + seafood