Infectious Dz

Question 1

Histoplasmosis in dogs often presents with signs of ___.

Answer 1

GI disease

Question 2

In what species does histoplasmosis usually affect bone more?

Answer 2

Cats

Question 3

With blastomycosis, does hilar lymphadenopathy occur frequently?

Answer 3

Not as often as with other mycosis

Question 4

Which mycotic disease is more typically confined to the nasal cavity, sinuses, eyes, skin, brain, without or with little clinical signs attributed to the lower respiratory tract?

Name one more mycotic disease that usually predominates in the upper respiratory tract.

Answer 4

Cryptococcus

Aspergillosis

Question 5

Which non-fungal, non-neoplastic disease may have marked hilarity lymphadenopathy or even large masses indistinguishable from neoplasia or granulomas, or even large dilated tortuous pulmonary vessels from hypertertension?

Answer 5

Pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophils (PIE)

Another ddx - lymphomatoid granulomatosis but some consider this a neoplastic disease