Hemolymph Flashcards
Three components of anthratoxin (A-B toxin)
Protective antigen (II)- B subunit (entry), binds TEM8 and CMG2
Lethal factor (III)- A subunit, cell death, CNS depression
Edema factor (I)- A subunit, increases cAMP–>water efflux from cell
How to diagnose anthrax?
Blood smear from tail tip or coronary band
What is the key histo on blood smear?
Intravascular large bacilli with flat ends
Pathogenesis of anthrax
Initial lymphangitis/lymphadenitis, then septicemia
How to stain anthrax?
Old methylene blue stains pink, distinct capsule
Classical swine fever lesions
Lymphocytolysis (thymus and lymphoid atrophy)
Differentials for congested splenomegaly in a pig
Volvulus, salmonella, hemolytic anemia, Mycoplasma haemosuis, African swine fever
Cause of cervical lymphadenitis in the guinea pig
Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus
What predisposes G pigs to lumps?
Female sex and stress
Key histo with cervical lymphadenitis
Bilateral suppurative lymphadenitis
What does mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis target?
M cells (GALT, PP)
Virulence factors of mycobacterium
Lipid rich cell wall
Peroxidase
Man-LAM
TLR2 and IL10 stimulate TH2 response
What does mycobacterium require for growth? Where is it highest?
Iron; ileocecal jxn
Mycobacterium key histo
Granulomatous lymphangitis/lymphadenitis
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis clinical presentation
GI disease with lymphadenopathy in cats and rodents
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis virulence factors
Yersinia adhesion A protein, YadA (adheres to ECM and inhibits complement)
Invasin and Ail (bind to M cells)
YopB and Yop D for type III SS, injects effector Yops that alter phagocyte fxn (Yop E/H/T)
Y. pseudotuberculosis key histo
Large, botryoid colonies of bacteria (lymphadenitis), lymphoid hyperplasia and histiocytosis
How is Y. pestis different?
Does not cause disease in rodents, and three forms:
Bubonic plague, pneumonia, or septicemic
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis virulence factors
Leukotoxic surface lipid (mycolic acid)- induces inflammation, prevents phagolysosome formation
Exotoxin (phospholipase D) increases vascular permeability, cell damage
Key gross and histo for corynebacterium
Onion skin lymphadenomegaly, caseous lymphadenitis in sheep, ulcerative lymphangitis in horses/cows; eosinophils, no colonies
Key histo for actinobacillus lignieresii
Pyogranulomatous inflammation with large colonies of bacilli with Splendore-Hoeppli (sulfur granules grossly)
Key histo for Francisella tularensis
Abscesses with a ton of necrosis in multiple organs (LN, liver, spleen)
How to tell tularemia from yersinia
No colonies in tularemia
What cells does bartonella henselae infect?
Erythrocytes
Endothelium
Macrophages
How is bartonella transmitted
Arthropods
Histo with bartonella; stain to see?
Lymphadenitis; silver stains
How is Neorickettsia helminthoeca transmitted?
Ingestion of trematode (Nanophyteus salmincola*)
Life cycle of Nanophyteus salmincola
1st IH- snail, cercaria
2nd IH- fish, metacercari
DH- fish eating mammals
Stains to see Neorickettsia helminthoeca
Giemsa, Macchiavellos
Key histo with Neorickettsia helminthoeca
Lymphoid depletion, histiocytosis*, pleomorphic organisms in macrophages (hard to see), adult trematodes in intestines
How is Ehrlichia canis transmitted?
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Who is susceptible to E. canis?
GSDs
Where does E. canis live?
Lymphocytes and monocytes
Clinical pathology with E. canis
Thrombo- and pan-cytopenia
Key cyto with E. canis
Morulae on blood smears or synovial fluid smears
What kind of fungus is Sporothrix schenckii?
Dimorphic
Three types of sporothricosis
Cutaneous, cutaneous-lymphatic, disseminated
Key histo with Sporothrix schenckii
Pyogranulomatous lymphadenitis with intrahistiocytic and extracellular cigar-shaped 2-10um yeast with a halo
What is the pelger-huet anomaly?
Normal leukocytes count, but left shift due to hyposegmentation of granulocytes and monocytes (round/kidney nucleus)
What causes Pelger-Huet anomaly?
Lamin B receptor mutation (autosomal dominant)
Cause of SCID in horse?
Arabian horses- autosomal recessive defect in PRKDC gene
Cause of SCID in dog?
Defect in type I cytokine receptor
Clin path findings supportive of SCID
Lymphopenia, hypogammaglobulinemia, no IgM
Key histo with SCID
Lymphoid hypoplasia of all lymphoid organs
Who gets congenital dyserythropoiesis
Polled Herefords; idiopathic in English springer spaniels with polymyopathy and megaesophagus
Syndromes assocaited with congenital dyserythropoiesis
Anemia, progressive alopecia, dyskeratosis
Key histo with congenital dyserythropoiesis
Marked erythroid hyperplasia (arrest at rubricyte stage), epidermal dyskeratosis*
Who gets LAD?
Holsteins; Irish setters
Cause of LAD?
Deficiency of beta 2 integrins (CD18)
Pathogenesis of LAD
Neutrophils can’t adhere, diminished chemotaxis–>recurrent infections–>persistent neutrophilia
Who gets thymomas?
Adult female goats
List of paraneoplastic syndromes associated with thymoma
Myasthenia gravis w. megaesophagus
Exfoliative dermatitis
Eosinophilia
Hypercalcemia
Polymyositis
Exophthalmia in rabbits
Red cell aplasia
T cell lymphocytosis
Thymoma types and appearance
Type A- spindle
Type B- epithelioid (dog); B1 most closely resembles the normal thymus, B3 more epithelial
Type AB- components of both, sheep/goats
Cause of malignant lymphoma in cats; only transmissible type
Feline Leukemia Virus A
What kind of virus is FeLV
Lentivirus (gammaretrovirus)
What type of lymphoma occurs with FeLV
Thymic T cell lymphoblastic
FeLV virulence factors
gag- infectivity
env- attachment and entry
pol- enzymes
What kind of lymphoma is associated with FIV?
B cell lymphoma of intestine
Most common lymphoma in cats
T cell intestinal lymphoma
What phenotype is gastric lymphoma?
Diffuse large B cell
What phenotype is nasal lymphoma?
Diffuse large B cell
From what does histiocytic sarcoma arise?
Interstitial dendritic cells
What stain is used for histiocytic sarcoma?
CD18
Mice strains predisposed to HS
B6 SJL
Histo finding in rats associated with HS
Intracytoplasmic hyaline droplets in PCTs
Only malignancy of macrophage origin
Hemophagocytic histiocytic sarcoma
Benign tumor that cheetahs get
Myelolipoma (liver); spleen in dog
Features of T zone lymphoma- cell size and type, pattern, key histo, location, behavior
Intermediate T cells; nodular; peripheralizes and fading follicles; lymph nodes; indolent
Features of marginal zone lymphoma- cell size and type, pattern, key histo, location, behavior
Intermediate B cells with large central nucleolus; nodular; around fading follicles; spleen, LNs, extranodal; indolent
Where does mycoplasma haemocanis live?
Epicellular on erythrocytes (perimembranous)
Disease with mycoplasma?
Hemolytic anemia if immunocompromised/splenectomized
Key cyto with mycoplasma
Thin chains of cocci on erythrocytes
How is mycoplasma transmitted?
Blood sucking arthropods (like mycoplasma suis! Haematopinus)
What type of organism is Babesia?
Apicomplexan protozoan, tickborne