PQS - Entrance exam [1] Flashcards
Stenoxen agents have a wide host range.
False
Foetuses have no immune reactions; they appear only in 2-4-week-
old animals.
False
Avirulent strains can be used in live vaccines.
True
Embryo transfer can be used as an eradication method.
True
Species specific resistance means that certain agents cannot infect certain hosts.
True
The age of the vaccinated animals can influence the efficacy of the
vaccination.
True
The porcine parvovirus 1 causes renal disorders in adults.
False
Porcine circovirus 2 always causes clinical signs in pigs.
False
There is no neutralizing epitope of parvoviruses.
False
SMEDI is caused by porcine circovirus.
False
In parrots porcine circovirus 2 causes the psittacine beak and feather disease.
False
PMWS is a type III. hypersensitivity.
False
The turkey haemorrhagic enteritis virus can cause marble spleen disease in pheasants.
True
Papillomavirus replicates in the kidney
False
Conjunctivitis is a frequent sign of infectious laryngotrachetitis.
True
Derzsy’s disease is caused by a polyomavirus.
False
Bovine herpesmamillitis virus can cause mastitis in cows.
False
The sarcoid is the disease of cattle.
False
The diphtheric (wet) form of fowlpox causes lesions on the mucous membranes.
True
Clinical manifestation of swine inclusion body rhinitis is usually
seen in piglets less than 3 weeks of age.
True
Myxomatosis may result over 90% mortality in susceptible animals
True
Conjunctivitis and muco-purulent nasal discharge are frequent
signs of feline rhinotracheitis.
True
Conjunctivitis is a frequent sign of duck viral enteritis.
True
In cattle, cowpox lesions are usually seen on the teats.
True
Fowlpox is eradicated from most of the European countries.
False
The tick species vectoring African swine fever are present in Portugal and Spain.
True
Avian pox viruses are species specific.
False
The African swine fever virus replicates in lymphocytes.
False
Poxviruses usually induce cell proliferation in epithelial cells of the skin and mucosal surfaces.
True
Conjunctivitis is characteristic in the early phase of myxomatosis.
True
The foot and mouth disease virus is classified into 7 serotypes.
True
Ducks are infected with the duck hepatitis A virus generally per os.
True
The foot and mouth disease virus can retain its infectivity in dried milk for months.
True
The main clinical sign of Teschen disease in sheep is pneumonia.
False
In the control of foot and mouth disease vaccines are used in Europe.
False
Flaccid paralysis is a typical clinical sign of Talfan disease.
True
Urate deposition is a postmortem lesion of avian nephritis.
True
The bursitis virus mostly causes germinative infection.
False
Bursitis virus infection can reduce the efficacy of vaccinations.
True
Avian nephritis virus replicates in the gut.
True
Clinical signs caused by duck hepatitis A virus can be seen in the first month of life.
True
The primary source of VES infection is sea-origin feed.
True
Bluetongue virus is also foetopathic.
True
African horse sickness is zoonotic.
False
Bluetongue outbreaks mainly occur in summer and autumn.
True
Lameness is frequent symptom of bluetongue in sheep.
True
Mammalian orthoreoviruses can cause pneumoenteritis only in suckling animals.
False
Oedemas and haemorrhages are the most frequent lesions in
African horse sickness.
True
Classical swine fever infection results in thrombocytopaenia
True
Classical swine fever virus targets the bone marrow stem cells.
True
Non-cytopathic strains of the Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) can cause immunosuppression.
True
Pestiviruses are zoonotic.
False
Akabane virus is zoonotic.
False
In utero infection with non-cytopathic BVDV can cause
immunotolerance.
True
Ischemic infarcts at the edges of the spleen are postmortem
lesions of subacute Classical swine fever.
True
Influensavirusas have segmented genome. Influensavirusas have segmented genome.
True
Antigenic drift is behind the seasonal influensa epidemies.
True
Antigenic drift means serials of point mutations in the HA and NA genes.
True
Hendra virus can infect mainly swine and human.
False
Canine distemper virus has six serotypes
False
Natural hosts of rinderpest virus are cloven-hoofed animals.
True
Newcastle disease virus has virulence-variants.
True
Rabies virus is shed in the viraemic phase of the disease.
False
Ephemeral fever virus is shed in large amount in the saliva.
??
Vesicular stomatitis virus can cause clinical signs in horses.
True
Rhabdoviruses are generally good antigens.
True
Retroviruses are enveloped, their resistance is low.
True
Vaccine against Equine Viral Arteritis is never used in Europe
False
Cytoplasmic inclusion bodies can be seen in the case of rabies.
True
Maedi-visna can occur in sheep, goats and cattle.
False
Feline leukosis virus can cause immune tolerance.
True
Ovine pulmonary adenomatosis virus can infect sheep, goats and
cattle.
False
Mutation of retroviruses is very rare.
False
Retroviruses are frequently carried lifelong.
True
Enzootic bovine leukosis virus is carried lifelong.
True
Retroviruses can integrate into the genome of host cells.
True
In the case of transmissible encephalopathies meningoencephalitis
is a typical postmortem lesion.
??
Classical swine fever is a frequent predisposing factor of bradsot.
False
Anthrax is a chronic disease in ruminants.
False
There are no vaccines for the prevention of bacillary
haemoglobinuria.
False
Soil contaminated frozen feed is a frequent predisposing factor of
bradsot.
True
Bacillary haemoglobinuria is mainly seen in cattle.
True
Infectious necrotic hepatitis is caused by Clostridium chauvoei.
False
Vesicles are formed in the case of exudative dermatitis.
True
Erysipelas can be an acute septicaemia in pigs.
True
The agent of tetanus is strictly aerobic.
False
Malignant oedema is caused by Clostridium chauvoei.
False
Humans are generally infected with the agent of swine erysipelas
through wounds
True
Clostridium botulinum generally causes wound infection.
False
In the case chronic erysipelas pneumonia is a frequent clinical sign.
False
Caseous lymphadenitis of sheep can be diagnosed using microscopy.
True
The skin intra dermal tuberculin test can be repeated within a
week if necessary
False
The incubation time of bovine tuberculosis is 1-2 weeks.
False
Paratuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
True
Saprophytic and facultative pathogenic mycobacteria cannot colonise warm blooded animals.
False
There is close antigen relationship between mycobacteria
True
Fibrinous pneumonia is a typical lesion of paratuberculosis.
False
Mycobacterium bovis can cause generalised tuberculosis in
badgers.
True
Pigs with neonatal coli diarrhoea have to be treated per os with antibiotics
True
Subcutaneous pyogranulomas can be seen in the case of canine
actinomycosis.
True
Bovine actinomycosis is typically a generalised disease.
False
Nocardia bacteria can cause inflammation of lymphatic vessels
True
Postmortem lesions of paratuberculosis can be seen in the small
intestine.
True
Hypo-gammaglobulinemia can predispose cattle to coli
septicaemia.
True
Abortion is the main clinical form of human salmonellosis.
False
Salmonella Typhisuis is the causative agent of swine typhoid.
True
Salmonella Typhimurium can cause salmonellosis of cattle.
True
Swine paratyphoid has been eradicated from Europe.
False
Enteritis is a clinical sign of bovine salmonellosis.
True
Salmonella Choleraesuis can cause swine paratyphoid.
True
Fowl paratyphoid is limited to the gut, there is no septicaemia.
False
Overcrowding can predispose animals to ornithobacteriosis.
True
Mannheimia haemolytica causes rabbit pasteurellosis.
False
Diarrhoea is a common clinical sign of yersiniosis in pigs.
True
Waterfowl is more susceptible to fowl cholera than hens.
True
Dermonecrotoxin producing Bordetella bronchiseptica can cause
rhinitis in piglets.
True
The block of the lachrymal channel is a clinical sign of atrophic rhinitis.
True
Sinusitis is a frequent clinical sign of ornithobacteriosis.
True
Europe is free from Brucella ovis.
False
Brucellae are facultative intracellular agents.
True
Mainly attenuated vaccines are used for the prevention of actinobacillus pleuropneumonia of swine.
False
Meningitis can occur in the case of Glässer’s disease.
True
Glässer’s disease is caused by Actinobacillus suis.
False
The agent of contagious equine metritis causes septicaemia in
horses.
False
Infected cattle carry brucellae lifelong.
True
Cattle cannot infect humans with brucellae.
False
Tularaemia is a zoonosis.
True
The agent of tularaemia can be transmitted by ticks.
True
Tularaemia is a fast and acute disease in mice.
True
The agent of tularaemia can be transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes, and other blood sucking arthropods.
True
The reservoir host of the agent of tularaemia is the hare.
True
Glanders can occur in horses.
True
Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis is caused by Moraxella bovis.
True
Glanders is mainly an acute disease in horses.
False
Melioidosis is endemic in the Mediterranean area.
False
There are no vaccines for the prevention of infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis.
False
The clinical signs of glanders are more severe in horses than in donkeys.
False
Glanders occurs only in horses.
False
Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme borreliosis.
True
Arthritis is a clinical sign of Lyme borreliosis in dogs.
True
Lawsonia intracellularis causes proliferative enteropathies in pigs.
True
Introduction of young ewes in their first pregnancy into the flock of old pregnant ewes can predispose to campylobacteriosis.
True
Melioidosis is a zoonosis.
True
Rabbit syphilis is a zoonosis.
False
Lyme borreliosis is maintained by small rodents.
True
Abortion is the main clinical sign of leptospirosis of dogs.
False
Clinical signs of the central nervous system can be seen in the case of leptospirosis of young dogs.
False
Pneumonia is a frequent clinical sign of bovine leptospirosis.
False
Swine dysentery is caused by Brachyspira hyodysenteriae.
True
Leptospirosis can be diagnosed based on the titre of antibodies in
the sow’s blood.
True
Bovine leptospirosis can be successfully treated with penicillins.
True
Blood in the faeces is typical in the case of swine dysentery.
True
Q-fever is a zoonosis.
True
Severe pneumonia is a postmortem lesion of Potomac horse fever.
False
Eperythrozoonosis of sheep and goats is caused by Mycoplasma ovis.
True
Mycoplasmas frequently have immunosuppressive effect.
True
Eperythrozoonosis of sheep and goats is diagnosed by isolation of
the agent.
False
The agent of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia is spreading in
aerosols.
True
Abortion caused by chlamydia can be diagnosed by microscopic
examination.
True
Zoonotic agents can cause disease in animals and humans.
True
Eradication with selection method is not done nowadays.
False
Species specific resistance means that certain agents cannot infect certain hosts.
True
New-born animals must be kept isolated when eradication with
generation shift is used.
True
Deletion vaccines can only be used as live vaccines.
False
Infection before self-recognition of the immune system can result
tolerated infections.
True
PDNS is a type IV. hypersensitivity.
False
Maternal antibodies against cat parvovirus protect only till 2 weeks age.
False
PDNS is a type IV hypersensitivity reaction.
False
Aleutian mink disease virus causes enteritis.
False
Vertical infectious is not possible in chicken infectious anaemia.
False
Ascites can be a clinical sign of Derzsy’s disease.
True
Adenoviruses are poor antigens.
False
Canine adenovirus 2 can cause encephalitis in foxes.
False
Fowl cholera can occur is ducks and geese.
True
