LECTURE 19: Digestive Diseases III

Question 1

What is avian tuberculosis?

Answer 1

Gram positive bacteria

Question 2

ATB is chronic disease for what age of birds?

Answer 2

Older

Question 3

ATB is common with what type of flocks?

Answer 3

Backyard flock

Question 4

What is the transmission of ATB?

Answer 4

fecal oral, mechanical vectors

Question 5

What are clinical signs of ATB?

Answer 5

Progressive wasting of birds?

Question 6

What are gross lesions of ATB?

Answer 6

Grayish yellow or grayish white nodules

Question 7

How would you sample for ATB?

Answer 7

1. Histopathology
2. Swabs for molecular
3. Bacterial culture

Question 8

Ascaridia galli is what?

Answer 8

Roundworms

Question 9

Rounds worms are common with what type of poultry?

Answer 9

Gallinaceous birds but also most types of birds

Question 10

Round worms can be described as very…..

Answer 10

Virulent

Question 11

What is the transmission of round worms?

Answer 11

Ingestion of eggs from contaminated environment
Eggs may be ingested by insects and remain infectious

Question 12

What are clinical signs of round worms?

Answer 12

May be absent, loss in wt, stunted growth, intestinal blockage

Question 12

Round worms can cause a secondary ______.

Answer 12

e coli infection

Question 13

What are thread worms/crop worms?

Answer 13

Small hair like worms

Question 14

thread worms effect what birds?

Answer 14

Quail and pheasants and pigeons

Question 15

What are clinical signs of thread worms?

Answer 15

Swallowing motion

Question 16

Cecal worms occur in what birds?

Answer 16

All birds

Question 17

Cecal worms is a vector for what?

Answer 17

Black head disease

Question 18

What are tape worms?

Answer 18

Non pathogenic worms that don’t have a treatment

Question 19

When you have tape worms what should you re evaluate?

Answer 19

Pest control

Question 20

For worms how do you sample?

Answer 20

1. Histopathology
2. Gut scrapings
3. Fecal examination

Question 21

What are gross lesions of parasites?

Answer 21

Presence of worms in intestines, cull birds

Question 22

What is the diagnosis for parasites and worms?

Answer 22

Direct obs of fecal and gut scrapes

Question 23

What is histomoniasis? (black head)

Answer 23

Protozoal parasite

Question 24

Black head occurs in what type of birds?

Answer 24

Turkeys, game birds, chickens, peafowl

Question 25

What happens when turkeys get blackhead?

Answer 25

They die

Question 26

How is blackhead transmitted?

Answer 26

cloacal drinking, intermediate hosts, and vectors

Question 27

What are clinical signs of black head?

Answer 27

Sulfur colored, diarrhea, anorexia
Emaciation and debilitation
Death

Question 28

What is your main way for testing for blackhead?

Answer 28

Histopathology

Question 29

What is the your biggest clue for black head disease?

Answer 29

TARGET LESION

Question 30

What are gross lesions of blackhead?

Answer 30

cecal cores, targets, peritonitis

Question 31

Trichomoniasis is what….

Answer 31

protozoa parasite

Question 32

What does trich do?

Answer 32

creates lesions in the upper respiratory tract

Question 33

With trich when do you see high mortality?

Answer 33

Young fowl

Question 34

What is crop mycosis?

Answer 34

AKA thrush and sour crop

Question 35

Crop mycosis is an ______.

Answer 35

Opportunistic infection

Question 36

What lesions do we see with crop mysosis?

Answer 36

cheesy lesions

Question 37

What should you test with crop mycosis?

Answer 37

1. Histopathology
2. Bacterial swabs
3. Gut scrapings

Question 38

How do you prevent crop mycosis?

Answer 38

avoid prolonged antibiotic treatment