Module 6: Ruminant Bronchopneumonias, Adult Respiratory Diseases Flashcards
When will a calf/lamb/kid with bacterial bronchopneumonia respond best?
With acute treatment (early) with an antibiotic
- Chronic infections may recover, may not die, but they will not be productive
- If you wait for culture results, it will be too late to fix things
List the respiratory Viruses:
- Bovine herpes virus
- Bovine respiratory syncytial virus
- Parainfluenza type 3 (PI3)
- Bovine virus diarrhea virus (BVD or BVDV)
List the respiratory Bacterias:
- Mannheimia hemolyticaa
- Pasteurella multocida
- Hisrophilus somnii
- Is the #2 disease of importance
- Disease of intensive management
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD)
- Second to diarrhea in newborn calves
- Feedlot, Dairy, Farm calves
- Show animals
Describe the pathogenesis of Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD):
- Viral insult damages mucous membranes, allowing bacterial commensals to proliferate
- Replication includes the production of cell membrane components (LPS) and replication results in the expression and release of leukotoxin (M. haemolytica)
What often results in LPS/leukotoxin production and release causing inflammation?
Acute onset pneumonia
What is the cause of shipping fever?
Acute onset bronchopneumonia
- Best treated with modern antimicrobial agents
Associated with Bronchopneumonia and neurologic diseases
histophilus somnii
- most likely going to be identified after taking the dead animal to the State Diagnostic lab and they perform necropsy +/- culture.
Pasturella multocida tends to be more (acute/chronic)
Chronic
What includes opportunistic organisms that require damaged lung tissue to produce pruritic exudate (pus formers)?
Chronic pneumonia
Definition:
coughing-up of blood or blood-stained sputum
Hemoptysis
These cattle tend to be poor-doers, have lost weight, have rough hair coats, and loose stool (usually dark brown/black due to blood swallowed by cow). This is called:
Caudal Vena Cava Syndrome
- Most commonly associated with grain consumption (owner gives too much too fast) and best controlled by feeding animals appropriately
Caudal vena cava syndrome:
When is it too late for this syndrome to be controlled?
When these animals have blood coming from both nostrils -/+ mouth
What treatment is always listed as the treatment of choice for caudal vena cava syndrome?
Penicillin
Caudal vena cava syndrome:
(T/F) Penicillin is the only treatment that works for caudal vena cava syndrome
False, other antibiotics probably do but giving penicillin daily/twice daily for 4-8 weeks (or any other antibiotic) will result in residues in the animal (drug or metabolites residues)
Calves in feedlots that have a respiratory disease and chronic lameness. This organism does not generally show up acutely, rather 70+ days after weaning or moving them to the feedlot. This is most commonly associated with:
Mycoplasma bovis
List the most characterized and most important bacterial virulence factor:
Leukotoxin produced by Mannheimia hemolytica
Cattle:
- Chronic cough
- Fever that does not respond to antimicrobial
- anti-inflammatory therapy
Lungworms in the Midwest
(T/F) You can perform cold laser therapy for pneumonia
False
Small Ruminant Respiratory
A way of identifying sheep affected with Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), whereby the sheep’s hindquarters are raised above its head, producing fluid from both nostrils
Wheelbarrow Test
Small Ruminant Respiratory
What two viruses are very similar and it shouldn’t surprise you to see pneumonia in a goat similar to that in a sheep?
- Ovine progressive pneumonia (OPP)
- Caprine arthritis-encephalitis (CAE)
Both OPP and CAE produce weight loss, respiratory signs, arthritis, agalactia (poor milk production), and neurologic diseases (less common clinical signs in sheep)
Sheep and Goats:
Dictyocaulus filaria responds to …
- Benzimidazole (Fenbendazole)
- Ivermectins (IVOmec, Moxidecti, etc)
- Imidazothiazoles (Levamisole)
Pyrantel does not work because it is not systemically absorbed