Management Strategies Flashcards
What are the 5 basics of disease control?
Biosecurity
Disease control programs
vaccination
medication
health monitoring
Biosecrurity emphasis increases with_____
Intensification (more intensive farming)
Biosecrurity emphasis increases with_____
Intensification (more intensive farming)
What are the main ways disease is spread?
Animals:
Movement of animals
Disposal of dead animals
Wild birds, feral animals, rodents, insects
semen
eggs
People:
Farm staff, family, visitors, vets
Contractors, vaccination crews, shearers
Boots, clothing, hair
Airborne
Fomites
Vechiles, transport, machinery
Veterniary equipment
Saddles, harnesses, etc.
Feed and water
Faecal contamination
Raw materials
post-production contamination
Mould growth
What are the benefits of biosecurity?
- Greater productivity of stock – better health
- Reduced risks to the farm – disease entry
- Early detection and management
- Reduced costs if there is an outbreak – faster eradication
before it gets to your farm
When is biosecurity not effective?
- Has a long survival time in the environment
- Is ubiquitous
- Has an airborne route of transmission
- Has an effective and robust vector
- Is not very susceptible to disinfectants
- Where the consequences of an outbreak are severe
What are the basic components of biosecurity in farm animals?
- Distance from other premises with same species or species
which share diseases - Single age ( all in, all out)
- Closed herd/ flock
- Isolation of introductions
- Early detection of incursion
- Herd/ Flock immunity (vaccination)
- Exclusion of contact – Quarantine/ Hygiene
- Control of nosocomial infections (hospitals)
❖ Approach from each livestock industry varies
What are the basic components of biosecurity in farm animals?
- Distance from other premises with same species or species
which share diseases - Single age ( all in, all out)
- Closed herd/ flock
- Isolation of introductions
- Early detection of incursion
- Herd/ Flock immunity (vaccination)
- Exclusion of contact – Quarantine/ Hygiene
- Control of nosocomial infections (hospitals)
❖ Approach from each livestock industry varies
HPE of disease
Physical and toxic damage
Manipulate &/or avoid host defense mechanisms
Uses changed environment to enhance capacity to cause disease.
Environmental factors provide opportunity for pathogen to proliferate
Environmental factors in/directly cause disease. e.g. flood.
Environmental factors diminish the effectiveness of host defence mechanisms.
Host resist pathogen through defense, innate and adaptive
Host behavioural patterns alter environmental effects, increasing opportunities for pathogen
How do antibiotics improve sick animals growth?
Increase growth in conventional environments
Minimised number and severity of interactions with disease
Why does microbial invasion cause animals to slow growth?
Loss of appetite
Fever
Depression/sleepy
neutrophilia
Acute-phase protein response
What is the bodies response to microbial invasion?
Microbs cause inflammation/ local tissue damage
–> local response (address immediate invasion)
–> systematic response to protect body
Systematic respone (pro-inflammatory cytokines):
IL-1
IL-6
TNF
What do cytokines do?
regulate biological processes (cell growth, cell activation, inflammation, immunity and tissue repair)
Secreted by T cells, B cells, macrophages, neutrophils etc.
Features of cytokines:
diff cytokines may act on a single target cell
immune cells usually make more than one cytokine when activated
cytokines are effective at low concentration
* tend to act locally (paracrine)
or, control the activity of cells
that produced them (autocrine)
but they can also act
systemically (endocrine)
* short half life
* cytokines can be inhibited by
receptor antagonists
Symptoms (systematic response) for inflammation
Fever:
- act on brain
- increase body temp
- induce sleep and supress appetite
Metabolic changes:
- increased protein catabolism and mobilising a pool of amino acids
- eventually leads to muscle wasting, but the amino acids are avalible for protein synthesis
Acute phase proteins:
- induce liver cells to increase protein synthesis and secretion
- produced within hours of injury, rapid rise concentration which then subsides within 24-48hours
- C-reactive protein (CRP).
- CRP binds to invading organism & damaged tissue
promoting their phagocytosis.
-inhibits neutrophil release of damaging radical, reducing
tissue damage and enhancing tissue repair.