Lecture 11 Flashcards
What does transmissible gastroenteritis infect
Piglets - 100% mortality Mild disease in young adults
What does transmissible gastroenteritis target
Severe villous atrophy, malabsorption, osmotic diarrhoea - Fusion of adjacent vili means limited vili restoration - If survive -> chronic ‘poor doers’
Signs of transmissible gastroenteritis
Vomiting, profuse diarrhoea, dehydration
Necropsy of transmissible gastroenteritis
- Perineal yellow faecal staining - Dilated thin-walled SI - Yellow fluid and gas contents
What id porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus similar to
Coronavirus similar to TGE
What does porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus infect
All ages
What does porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus cause
Vomiting, diarrhoea, weightloss
What is the pathology of porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus
Occasional epithelial syncytial
What does Classical swine fever cause
Widespread damage to blood vessels - Widespread petechial haemorrhages - Dyspnoea, coughing - Skin erythema and cyanosis - Diarrhoea Button ulcers in the large intestine
What causes swine dysentery
Brachyspira hyodystenteriae
What does swine dysentery affect
Larges intestines
What does swine dysentery infect
Weanling pigs 8-14 weeks
Swine dysentery disease with Is a synergistic disease what are the colonic anaerobes
Fusobacterium necrophorum and bactericides vulgates
What are the signs of swine dysentery
Anorexia, mucohaemorrhagic diarrhoea, dehydration, emaciation
What causes porcine intestinal spirochetosis
Brachyspira pilosicoli
What is infected with porcine intestinal spirochetosis
Pigs, poultry, humans, dogs
What does porcine intestinal spirochetosis cause
Reduced weight gain Watery to mucoid diarrhoea, no blood Grossly severe cases may develop fibronecrotic typhlocolitis
What causes porcine proliferative enteropathy
Lawsonia intracelularis
When does Lawsonia intracelularis infect
Post weaning - Morbidity 10-15%, mortality 50% - Hyperplasia od intestinal crypt calls esp ileum -Progresses to necrosis of crypt cells and haemorrhage