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Gross Pathology of Small Ruminants Flashcards

1
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Cause of sepsis in sheep; gross lesion

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Mannheimia or Bibersteinia; fibrinous pericarditis

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Hemorrhages at base of pulmonary artery- possible causes?

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Blue tongue virus (sheep orbivirus)
Enterotoxemia (c. perfringens type D)

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Cause of aortic mineralization?

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Vitamin D analog plants:
Cestrum diurnum, Trisetum flavescens, Solanum spp, Medicago sativa (alfalfa)

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Filariid nematode that occludes carotid; DH

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Elaeophora schneideri; DEER

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Bacterial disease causing pleural effusion, edema (heartwater)

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Ehrlichia ruminantium

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Cause of caseous lymphadenitis and thin ewe syndrome

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Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

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Dry, crumbly abscess in goat lymph node

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Mycobacterium caprae

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Common tumor in goats

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Thymoma

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Cause of congenital hypothyroidism (goiter)

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Brassica (rape and kale)
High or low levels of iodine

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Cause of coccidiosis in sheep

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Eimeria ovinus

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Cause of coccidiosis in goats and sheep

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Eimeria ninakohlyakimovae

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Cause of scabby, proliferative and necrotizing dermatitis of lips and nasal mucosa

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Contagious ecthyma (Orf), caused by parapoxvirus

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What causes swollen, cyanotic tongue with thrombosis and necrosis of epithelium

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Bluetongue (orbivirus)

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14
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How do they catch blue tongue?

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Culicoides

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What cells does Bluetongue infect?

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Endotheliotropic, dendritic cells, macrophages, and monocytes

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Common presentations for Bluetongue (4)

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Blue tongue
Necrohemorrhagic stomatitis
GI ulceration
Nervous signs when infected in utero

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17
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What is the morph for a secondary fungal infection following ruminal acidosis?

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Multifocal to coalescing ruminal vasculitis with mucosal necrosis/infarction

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18
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What kind of virus causes pestes de petit ruminants?

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Morbillivirus

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19
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What are the two major syndromes of PDPR?

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Bronchopneumonia with nasal discharge
Necrosis and ulceration of GI tract with diarrhea

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20
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Skeletal muscle protozoan

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Sarcocystis ovifelis (cat is DH)

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What causes enterotoxemia? What age?

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C perf type D (requires trypsin); epsilon toxin; months old

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Who gets sick from C perf type C? What type of illness?

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Neonates (trypsin sensitive); diarrhea

23
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Which C perf is mostly a sheep disease, causes lamb dysentery? What age?

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Type B; weeks old

24
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What causes frothy bloat?

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High protein feed (legumes, alfalfa, clover)

25
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Necrohemorrhagic abomasitis and edema

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Clostridium septicum (braxy, bradsot)

26
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Rhabditid (trichostrongyle) nematode that lives in the abomasum and causes anemia

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Haemonchus contortus

27
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Cause of catarrhal abomasitis and epithelial proliferation (Moroccan leather) (2)

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Teladorsagia circumcincta
Trichostrongylus axei

28
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Causes of catarrhal enteritis (not necrohemorrhagic)

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EPEC
Rotavirus
Cryptosporidium

29
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Morph for clostridial GI disease

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Necrohemorrhagic enteritis

30
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Mucosal necrosis over Peyer’s Patches with large colonies of bacteria is caused by

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Yersinia enterocolitica

31
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What is the sheep tapeworm (cestode) (2)?

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Moniezia expansa (usually subclinical)
Cysticercus ovis- in mesentery, liver, muscles of mastication, IH sheep, DH dog

32
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Strongyle nematode of sheep; location

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Oesophagostomum columbianum; intestine

33
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What causes Johne’s Disease?

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Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

34
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Morph with Johne’s

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Granulomatous enteritis

35
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Cause of entire GI tract red and distended, including spleen

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Mesenteric torsion secondary to Lucerne red gut

36
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Whipworm of sheep; clinical signs if severe

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Trichuris ovis; hypoproteinemia and weight loss

37
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Cause of a pale, tan to orange liver

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Copper toxicity

38
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Copper toxicity pathogenesis

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Hepatic necrosis and hemolysis:
Copper exceeds liver binding capacity, free copper causes apoptosis, hepatocytes rupture and liberate more copper, enters bloodstream, oxid damage to RBCs (intravascular hemolysis)

39
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Causes of liver cirrhosis

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Ryegrass fungus (pythomyces chartarum)
Pyrrolizidine alkaloids
Aflatoxin
Saponins

40
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Cause of white liver disease

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Cobalt deficiency –> Accumulation of fat in liver

41
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Viral hepatitis in sheep

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Rift Valley Fever (bunyavirus)

42
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Cause of thin ewe syndrom with multifocal to coalescing abscesses everywhere

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Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

43
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Cause of flat, well-demarcated nodules throughout liver

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Fusobacterium

44
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Cause of targetoid lesions in liver of aborted fetus

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Campylobacter foetus subsp. foetus

45
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Cause of multifocal to coalescing hepatocellular necrosis (sepsis)

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Listeria monocytogenes

46
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Lancet fluke of sheep

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Dicrocoelium dendriticum

47
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Intermediate host of D. dendriticum

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Ant

48
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What causes black disease? (hepatic necrosis)

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Clostridium novyii often secondary to Fasciola hepatica or Fascioloides magna migration

49
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Most important cestode in sheep; gross finding

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Echinococcus granulosus; hydatid cysts in liver

50
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Cause of nutmeg liver in sheep

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Heart disease

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