Gross Pathology of GI Flashcards
What causes a proliferative and necrotizing lesion in the mouth, lips, gingiva, hard palate of sheep and goats?
Parapoxvirus- contagious ecthyma
What causes orogenital lesions in primates?
Macacine herpesvirus type 1
What causes oral lesions in cats
Either Eosinophilic granuloma complex or feline chronic gingivostomatitis
Calicivirus and uremia cause ulcerative glossitis
What can cause erosive gingivitis in a NHP?
Shigella flexneri
Differential list for bovine oral lesions
BVD
IBR
FMD
Cause of necrotic stomatitis in snakes
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
What causes necrotizing stomatitis in Eastern box turtles?
Frog ranavirus 3
What causes exudative necrotizing stomatitis in birds (not proliferative)
Trichomonas gallinae
Called canker in pigeons, frounce in raptors
Cause of wooden tongue
Actinobacillus ligneresii
Most common odontogenic tumor of cattle? Location?
Ameloblastic fibroma; Mandibular incisors
Disease caused by actinomyces bovis? Morph?
Lumpy jaw; proliferative granulomatous osteomyelitis
Cause of hyperplastic bone proliferation that’s red (unmineralized)
Fibrous osteodystrophy
Cause of hyperplastic bone proliferation that’s white (mineralized)
Osteopathy
Bony tumor on occipital bone, hard palate, or facial bones
Multilobular tumor of bone
Where can you find spirocerca lupi?
Esophagus, aorta, periosteum of vertebral body- red worms!
Ribbon candy worm of esophagus
Gonglyonema pulchrum
Cause of proventricular dilation syndrome in Macaws; morph
Avian bornavirus; polyganglioneuritis
What causes papillomas in birds?
Psittacid herpesvirus 1- NOT PAPILLOMAVIRUS
Cause of edema disease in pigs; classic lesion; age
Enteropathogenic e.coli- shiga toxin producing; mesocolonic and gastric edema; weaner
Cause of red colon or stomach or any GI in a macaque; Other species of this organism? Virulence factor?
Shigella flexneri- don’t forget gingiva!
S. dysenteriae, boydii, sonii
Shigella
Cobblestone stomach (chronic gastritis) in horses? cows? sheep? cat? pig? (Stomachworms)
Trichostrongylus axei; Ostertagia ostertagi; Teladorsia ostertagi; Ollulanus tricuspis; hyostrongylus rubidus
Habronema muscae is either found in the ________ or _________ of a horse
Gastric mucosa or skin
Cause of focal granuloma on glandular side of margo plicatus in a horse; NHPs?
Draschia megastoma; Nochtia nochti
White worm that looks like an ascarid in the stomach of a cat with gastric ulceration
Physaloptera (spirurid)
Pigeon with red granulomas in proventricular glands
Tetrameres americana
Where do leaf-eating monkeys get amoeba?
Stomach
Cause of catarrhal gastritis in a snake; histology?
Cryptosporidium serpentis; massive mucous neck cell hyperplasia
Cause of anemia and pallor in sheep/goats? In cattle?
Haemonchus contortus; Haemonchus placei
Cause of abomasal ulceration in ruminants
Clostridium perfringens type A
Cause of hemorrhagic enteritis in turkeys? Associated lesions
Siadenovirus; marble spleen, liver necrosis
Cause of necrohemorrhagic anterior enteritis in horses?
Clostridioides difficile
Cause of multifocal ulceration and thickening of pyloric or esophageal mucosa in dog
Pythiosis
Coccidiosis causes based on GI location in chickens
E. acervulina- duodenum
E. necatrix- jejunum
E. tenella- ceca
Pathogenesis of Salmon poisoning; gross lesions; key histo
Salmon ate trematode (Nanophyetus salmincola) infected with Neorickettsia helminthoeca; hemorrhage and necrosis in duodenum of dogs, abdominal lymphadenopathy; Elementary bodies in macrophages
Cause of duodenal perforation in foals? Mechanism?
Parascaris equorum (linear foreign body)
What plant is associated with mesenteric volvulus in ruminants?
Lucerne (clover)
Cause of brown gut in a dog? Pathogenesis?
Intestinal ceroidosis (lipofuscinosis); Vitamin E deficient diet, chronic enteric or pancreatic disease (fat metabolism issues), lipofuscin/ceroid accumulates in tunica muscularis
If theres a red gut in a dog or cat, it’s ________. In ruminants?
Parvo. Clostridium perfringens