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LECTURE 13: Septicemic Disease of Poultry Flashcards

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What is septicemia?

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Waste in the blood

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How is septicemia caused?

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Systemic disease caused by spreading of bacteria and other organisms and or toxins in the blood stream

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What is the pathway for how septicemia works?

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  1. Portal of entry
  2. Acute disease (septicemia)
    **Some survivors
  3. Chronic disease (localized)
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What are the 6 clinical signs of septicemic diseases?

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  1. Rapid high mortality
  2. Neurological signs
  3. Fever/chilling
  4. Cyanosis (blue skin)
  5. Greenish diarrhea
  6. Anorexia (not eating nor drinking)
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What are the 5 differentials for septicemia?

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  1. AI
  2. NDV
  3. ILTV
  4. IBV
  5. Other bacteria
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What are 4 gross lesions of septicemic diseases?

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  1. Petechial/ecchymotic hemorrages
  2. Organomegaly
  3. Necrotic foci (Hepatitis)
  4. +/- Polyserositis
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Organomegaly is what

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Swollen organs (Splenomegaly/hepatomegaly)

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E. coli is a _______.

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Bacteria

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What kind of bacteria is in e. coli?

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Gram negative

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Where is e coli present in chickens?

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chickens intestines

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E. coli is a ________ pathogen?

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Secondary, needs something else to help cause the disease

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What is the name for the primary pathogen for e. coli?

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APEC

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How is e. coli caused?

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Immunosupression or poor management in poultry farms?

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14
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E. coli causes morbidity and mortality is _______ages.

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ALL

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15
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What is the number 1 incidence and commercial economic loss?

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E.coli

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16
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What do we call the cheesy film over the heart?

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Pericarditis

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17
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What do we call the cheesy film over the liver?

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Perihepatitis

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What do we call the cheesy film over the air sacs?

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Caseous airsacculitis

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19
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Omphalitis is what? What causes this?

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Yolk sac infection, angry navel

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20
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What does IP stand for?

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Infectious process

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What is IP?

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Condemned at the plant cellulitis and myositis secondary to skin trauma

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What is IP not?

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an infectious disease that spreads

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How would you test for e. coli?

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Swabs, grow e. coli

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24
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Can you use histopathology for e. coli testing?

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Yes

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How do you treat e. coli?

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Antibiotics (broad spectrum - gram negative), some people use modified live e. coli vaccine

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What is Pasteurella Multocida? (Avian Cholera)

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Gram negative bacteria with bipolar staining

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27
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How long does avian cholera live in carcass?

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3 mo but easily destroyed by disinfectants

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28
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What is the main route of pasteurella multocida?

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Biological Vectors

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29
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What do you need to monitor to prevent pasteurella multocida?

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Rodent control and contaminated water supply

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pasteurella multocida affects birds at what ages?

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all ages but more common in adult birds

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pasteurella multocida what is the mechanism of transmission?

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Horizontal transmission NOT VERTICAL

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32
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What are the mortality and morbidity of pasteurella multocida?

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HIGH

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33
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What are things you see with acute FC?

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  1. Rapidly mounting mortality
  2. Septicemia
  3. Cyanosis of comb and wattles
  4. Catarrhal nasal discharge and respiratory rales
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34
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What are things you see with chronic FC?

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  1. Joint, wattles, and brain (cheesy brain)
  2. Subclinical carriers
35
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What are clinical signs of pasteurella multocida?

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  1. Cheesy lungs
  2. Sawdust liver
  3. abnormal position of head and neck
  4. Lethargy rapid death
36
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What should you be mindful of if a grower thinks the flock has e. coli but mortality keeps rising?

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Cholera

37
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What are acute differentials for pasteurella multocida?

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HPAI, vNDV

38
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What are chronic differentials for pasteurella multocida?

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Erysipelas, Coryza, MS

39
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How do you sample and test for pasteurella multocida?

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  1. Swabs for Molecular
  2. Bacterial Swabs
40
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How can you rapidly test for pasteurella multocida?

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PCR

41
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Cholera is the ______.

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Final confirmed diagnosis

42
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How can you control pasteurella multocida?

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  1. Biosecurity
  2. Varmints control
  3. Introduction of new birds
  4. Treatment with sulfonamides and antibiotics
  5. Vaccines
43
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What is SRP?

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New technology of modified live vaccines

44
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What is Erysipelas?

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Gram positive bacteria

45
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Erysipelas is common for what sector?

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Turkeys

46
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Erysipelas has what kinds of vectors?

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Biological and mechanical

46
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Why does de snooding happen in turkeys?

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When toms fight reduces risk of open wounds and bleeding

47
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What is the route of infection?

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Oral or via wound

48
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Erysipelas is a _______ disease?

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Zoonotic

49
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What are the clinical signs of Erysipelas?

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  1. Sudden onset depression preceding death
  2. Cyanosis of head
  3. Occasional swollen hock
50
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How can you test for Erysipelas?

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  1. Swabs for molecular PCR
  2. Bacterial swabs
51
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What are the gross lesions of Erysipelas?

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  1. Septicemia (big liver, big spleen)
  2. Petechial/ ecchymotic/ hemorrhages in muscles and heart
52
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How do you diagnose and treat Erysipelas?

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  1. Culture isolation ddx FC
  2. Rapid-acting penicillin + bacterin
  3. Recovered birds can develop chronic lesions
53
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What is salmonella?

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Gram negative bacteria primarily a disease of young birds?

54
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What are the 2 species of salmonella?

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S enterica and S bongori

55
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What are host adapted non motile serovars of salmonella? What kind of transmission?

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S. pullorum and s. gallinarum (hen to chick)
Vertical transmission

56
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What is paratyphoid salmonella?

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Food borne illness in people and causes asymptomatic colonization in the intestinal tract

57
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Salmonella disease is normally present in birds when?

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Post hatch

58
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What is the transmission mechanism for salmonella?

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Vertical transmission, external egg contamination

59
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What are the clinical signs of salmonella?

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  1. Water diarrhea
  2. Anorexia
  3. Navel ill and death in baby chicksn
60
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Pullorum and Typhoid diseases are _______.

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Reportable

61
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What does pullorum disease do?

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  1. White diarrhea
  2. Gray nodules in heart, lung, liver, and GI
  3. Transmitted in eggs
62
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What does fowl typhoid do?

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  1. Enlarged, Bronze, greenish tint
  2. Drop in production, misshapen ova in adults
63
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What are signs of salmonella in young birds?

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  1. Chicks with swollen abdomens
  2. Cheesy ceca (eraser ceca)
64
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What are the 3 tests to run for salmonella?

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  1. Blood
  2. Swabs for molecular
  3. Bacterial swab
65
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When blood testing for salmonella was is a giveaway for positive birds?

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Antibodies binding to antigen resulting in clumping

66
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How do you diagnose salmonella?

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Culture isolation, immunoassay, PCR +/- NGS, serology

67
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How do you treat salmonella?

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Antibiotics usually ineffective
Survivors = carriers and transmit to progeny (test and cull)

68
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What are methods of control against salmonella?

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Biosecurity, live vaccines (cell mediated), SE bacterins

69
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Why are vaccines for salmonella given to bird?

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For food safety

70
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Staph is what kind of bacteria?

A

Gram positive cocci bacteria

71
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Where do you find staph?

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Skin wounds, infected navels, vaccine injections

72
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If staph goes to following areas what results
1. Systemic
2. Footpads
3. Navel/yolk sac
4. Bone and joints

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  1. septicemia
  2. bumble foot
  3. Navel yolk sac
  4. Bone and joints
73
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What are the clinical signs of staph?

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  1. Systemic infection
  2. Bumble foot
  3. Omphalitis
  4. Arthritis
74
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How do you test for staph?

A

Histopathology and bacterial swabs

75
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What are differentials for a staph infection?

A

E. coli

76
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What causes cellulitis is meat birds and turkeys?

A

Variety main C. septicum

77
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When do meat birds normally get hit with cellulitis?

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Right before they go on the market

78
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How does cellulitis happen?

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  1. contaminated litter, soil, and feces
  2. environmental factors
  3. Immunosuppression
79
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With cellulitis morbidity =

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mortality

80
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What are the clinical signs of gangrenous dermatitis?

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  1. Septicemia
  2. Febrile, severe depression
  3. Birds decompose faster
  4. Dark red to purple to green
  5. Gas crepitus upon palpation
81
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What is the diagnosis for gangrenous dermatitis?

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Gross lesions, mortality, culture

82
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What is the treatment for gangrenous dermatitis?

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LT use of penicillin, bacitracin, CTC

83
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What are methods of prevention and control for gangrenous dermatitis?

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Control underlying immunosuppression
Minimize cannibalism, removes dead quick
Better housing conditions.

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