forensics Flashcards
Origin of Parvo virus
- Incubation period: 2-4 days
- 3 days: if disease + death
- 4 days: typical pathological lesions + regenerating enterocytes
- 5 days: disease within 2 days, death in spite of treatment
Significance of Parvo virus.
- In case of death
* Treatment costs (justified expenses)
Problems with Parvo vaccination.
Vaccination problems:
• dogs: placenta endotheliochorialis
• maternal immunity: 90%: colostral, 10%:diaplacental
• antibodies persist for 8-16 weeks in puppies of vaccinated bitches
• above 1:128 titre: puppies can not be vaccinated effectively
• half life: 9.7 days
Diagnosis of distemper.
- Clinical signs (respiratory tract, mucous membranes, neurological system, skin)
- Pathology, histopathology, antibodies, virus antigen
Significance of Canine Distemper
- Always if death
- Loss of olfactory acuity or hard pad disease: working dogs
- Neurological signs: euthanasia
Significance of cryptorchidism.
- Breeding animal: exclusion from breeding
* Non-breeding animal: neoplastic malformation
Significance of hip dysplasia.
- X-ray (for diagnosis): age!
- Breeding or working animal: all stages
- Non-breeding animal: if clinical manifestation
Diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis.
- Veterinary institute: bacteriology, histopathology
- Disease: clinical sings, postmortem lesions (pathology, meat inspection), isolation of M. bovis (months!), positive intradermal tuberculin tests
- Suspected of being diseased: positive intradermal tuberculin test
Significance of Bovine Tuberculosis (And Brucellosis)
- State veterinary measures: compulsory eradication prohibition of treatment or vaccination
- Diseased or infected: slaughter
- Suspected of being infected: official surveillance, movement restrictions
- Free status: legal characteristic
- Herd of origin: significant for the whole herd (suspension of free status)
Origin of Bovine Brucellosis.
- Thomsen-rule: the later in pregnancy the animal is infected, the sooner it aborts
- Minimum 3 weeks
- Positive serology: late pregnancy: 8 days
- < 7th month of pregnancy: 3 weeks
- Epizootic inquiry
- Minimum 30 day-quarantine: examination on the first week and before release from isolation
Diagnosis of Brucellosis.
- Veterinary institute: bacteriology + 2x serology
- Sample: aborted foetus, placenta , blood
- Seropositivity: Brucella abortus (B. melitensis, B. suis)
- Disease: clinical signs (abortion, premature calving, retention of placenta), isolation of brucellas
Origin of Swine Erysipelas
- Minimum incubation period: 24 hours
- If >7 days it cannot be originated back before delivery
- 1-7 days: examination of predisposing factors (overcrowding, transport, etc.)
- Endocarditis: minimum 3 weeks
Significance Swine Erysipelas
- Acute case: if death
* Chronic case: arthritis, skin necrosis or endocarditis
Diagnosis of SMEDI.
Usually in young gilts (maternal immunity until 8-9 months of age Clinical signs, laboratory examinations: • Absorption of fetuses • Mummification • Less than 6 piglets • Stillbirth • Apparent infertility
Significance of SMEDI
Abortion or decreased litter size