GIT Flashcards
Upper alimernatry tract of a bird consists of what? Lower?

What are you looking for in the upper alimentary tract– tongue and beak to ensure health in birds?

What is trichomoniasis?

Trichomoniasis signs, diagnosis and lesions

Trichomoniasis DDX, tx, and control?

DDX stomatitis
Trichomoniasis

What are you looking for in the oesophagus and crop to ensure health?

All about crop mycosis (Candidiasis)


Crop problem ddx
crop mycosis (Candidiasis), crop fistula, crop helminthiasis

FB and hardware disease in birds (proventriculus, interventriculus, gizzard (ventriculus))

Heavy metal toxicity in waterfowl

Heavy metal toxicity in parrots

Proventricular Dilatation Syndrome

Megabacteriosis

Gizzard ulceration

Proventricular and gizzard parasitism







Control of Trichomoniasis

DDX Trichomoniasis in budgies, pigeons, and raptors

Stomatitis in gallinacious birds







Tx of crop mycosis




Treatment and control?

Treatment/control
* Amphotericin B
* Acidify drinking water
* Probiotics


Contracaecum spp.
Diagnosis?

Diagnosis
* Radiology, blood lead
* Serum chemistry: decreased delta ALAD, haeme synthesis, protoporphyrin increased, FEPP, ZnPP
*Anaemia

Signs of acute lead poisoning

Treatment of lead poisoning



Primary lymphoid tissues in birds

Secondary Lymphoid tissues

Maternally derived passive immunity

Immune tolerance in birds
* Ag presented to early embryo, won’t be recognized as foreign (e.g. congenitally transmitted disease)
Vaccinating birds– requirements and how to?

When to vaccinate

Vaccines available in AUS poultry
* For Erysipelas and some other diseases can use vaccines used in other species– pigs, sheep, turkeys, and emus
* For prevention of some diseases e.g. Pasteurella multocida– autogenous vaccines are used

Vaccines available in companion birds– limited

Marek’s disease lesions

Diagnosis of Marek’s disease

Other forms of Marek’s disease and effects?

Cause of Marek’s disease

Factors affecting the development of Marek’s disease

Pathogenesis and treatment of Marek’s disease

Control of Marek’s disease

Lymphoid leucosis clinical signs and lesions

Cause of Lymphoid Leucosis

Transmission of Lymphoid Leucosis

Factors affecting disease– Lymphoid Leucosis

Pathogenesis, treatment and control of Lymphoid Leucosis

Lymphoproliferative disease of Turkeys

Immunosuppression syndromes

Infectious Bursal disease cause and epizootiology

Pathogenesis of Infectious Bursal Disease

Clinical forms of Infectious Bursal Disease

Diagnosis, Treatment and control of Infectious Bursal Disease

Chicken Infectious Anaemia signs/lesions, diagnosis, and control

Diseases of the immune system
MD- only chickens

Signs of Marek’s Disease


Pathogenesis of Marek’s disease

Lymphoid Leucosis Clinical signs


Pathogenesis of Lymphoid Leucosis

What kind of virus is LL?

Infectious Bursal Disease signs


Infectious Bursal Disease
Severe form of IBDV

Intestinal accidents in birds
*Intussusception- associated with elongated FB e.g. rope, twisted mass of grass fibre, etc.
* Strangulation- especially due to elongated stalk of remnant yolk sac
Enteritis in birds
(also Turkey coronavirus enteritis, haemorrhagic enteritis of turkeys)
* Rotavirus infections- domestic fowl, turkeys, pheasants, pigeons, etc.
* Astrovirus infections- turkeys, especially young birds
* Enterovirus-like virus infections- turkeys, domestic fowl, guinea fowl

Turkey coronavirus enteritis

Haemorrhagic enteritis of Turkeys

Infectious stunting syndrome

Bacterial enteritis in birds
*Salmonellosis
* Campylobacteriosis
* Necrotic enteritis
* Ulcerative enteritis (quail disease)
* Avian TB
* Intestinal Spirochaetosis
Necrotic enteritis

Ulcerative enteritis (quail disease)

Avian TB

Intestinal spirochaetosis

Ascariasis

Intestinal cestodiasis and other helminths

Coccidiosis Signs and species

Severity of disease and mortality in coccidiosis

Aviary birds and diagnosis of Coccidiosis

Treatment of Coccidiosis

Control of Coccidiosis

Hexamitiasis

Typhlitis
Inflammation of the caecum

Pathology of the cloaca



Avian TB



PPP of important poultry worms

Tapeworms of Chickens– treatment?

Praziquantel (Avitrol Plus)


Lead poisoning
Normal bird droppings
Caecal droppings and intestinal droppings… caecal droppings are occasional– do not confuse with diarrhoea– they are normally very smelly