porcine skin diseases

Question 1

list bacterial septicaemia causing skin disorders (3)

Answer 1

salmonellosis
glassers disease
Erysipelas (Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae|)

Question 2

list viral causes of skin disorders

Answer 2

Porcine reproductive and respiratory
syndrome.
Classical Swine fever.
African Swine fever.

Question 3

what is salmonella presented as on the skin

Answer 3

purple discolouration of skin

Question 4

what is the causative agent of glassers disease?

Answer 4

Haemophilus parasuis

Question 5

describe the disease caused by glassers disease

Answer 5

disease characterized by red to purple discoloration of ears, abdomen and occasionally legs.
wasting, fibrinous polyserositis, polyarthritis, and meningitis.
Attacks joints, intestine, lungs, heart and brain causing pneumonia, pericarditis, peritonitis and pleurisy

Question 6

how to treat glassers?

Answer 6

typical course of penicillin. decent prognosis if caught early

Question 7

what are the clinical signs of erysipelas?

Answer 7

RHOMBOID SKIN
fever, inappetence

chronic with enlarged joints, lameness, and endocarditis.

Question 8

how to treat erysipelas?

Answer 8

typical course of penecillin

vaccine available

Question 9

other name for porcine repro and respiratory syndrome

Answer 9

blue ear disease

Question 10

what are the dermatological signs of classical swine fever?

Answer 10

red hamemorrhages seen under skin.

abdomen ears and legs mostly

Question 11

dermatological signs of african swin fever?

Answer 11

not many but late on in disease skin becomes reddend

this diseases is 100% fatal

Question 12

what is the common name for exudative epidermitis and what is the causative agent?

Answer 12

greasy pig disease

staphylococcus hyicus

Question 13

what are the clinical signs of greasy pig disease?

Answer 13

Dermatitis which oozes greasy fluid.
non pruritic
skin appears grey and greasy
problematic in weaned pigs

Question 14

how are piglets typically infected by greasy skin disease

Answer 14

he bacterium multiples profusely in the sow’s vagina so that piglets are infected during the birth process or soon after

Question 15

how is infection initiated and what causes the greasy skin

Answer 15

often initiated by traumatic wound or laceration.

Cause the loss of keratinocyte cell-cell adhesion in the superficial epidermis by an exfoliative toxin

treat with amoxicillin

Question 16

what is Trichophyton mentagrophytes

Answer 16

ringworm that affects pigs

Question 17

What is PDNS short for and what dermatological signs is seen

Answer 17

Porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome

Appearance of extensive greasy brown, purplish red slightly raised blotches of various sizes and shapes over the chest, abdomen, thighs and forelegs. The majority of pigs that develop extensive skin blotching die

Question 18

what causes sarcoptic mange in pigs

Answer 18

Sarcoptes scabiei var suis

Question 19

what are the signs of Sarcoptes scabiei var suis

Answer 19

pruritis, encrysted lesions, can cause hypersensitivity

deep skin scrape to diagnose

Question 20

what bacteria prevents wound healing in pigs

Answer 20

Treponoma spp