PQS - entrance exam [4] Flashcards
Malignant oedema is caused by Clostridium chauvoei
False
Exudative dermatitis of pigs is caused by Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius
False
High ammonia concentration is a predisposing factor of rabbit staphylococcosis
True
Corynebacterium renale causes septicaemia in cattle
False
The tuberculin test in cattle can be false negative if the animal is infected with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
False
The tuberculin has to be injected in the skin fold in the skin intra dermal test
True
Arthritis can be a clinical sign of caseous lymphadenitis of sheep.
True
False positive reactions of the tuberculin test in cattle can be caused by infection
with facultative pathogenic mycobacteria
True
Mycobacteria are intracellular bacteria
True
Giant cells typically occur in tubercles.
True
Arthritis is the most frequent clinical sign of canine actinomycosis
False
Mastitis is a common clinical sign of bovine nocardiosis
True
High fever is a typical clinical sign of bovine coli-septicaemia
True
Per os antibiotics are recommended for the treatment of neonatal coli diarrhoea of
calves.
True
Subcutaneous pyogranulomas can be seen in the case of canine actinomycosis.
True
Actinomyces hordeovulneris can cause actinomycosis of dogs
True
Dermatophilus congolensis is the agent of dermatophilosis
True
Salmonella Enteritidis can cause salmonellosis in sheep
True
The agent of swine typhoid can cause focal inflammation and necrosis in the
parenchymal organs.
True
Salmonella Typhimurium can cause salmonellosis of cattle
True
Mixing animals is a predisposing factor of bovine salmonellosis
True
Some viral infections can predispose animals to fowl paratyphoid
True
Weaning is a predisposing factor of oedema disease
True
Swine typhoid is a very frequent disease in Europe nowadays
False
Mannheimia haemolytica can cause pasteurellosis in cattle
True
Overcrowding can predispose animals to ornithobacteriosis
True
Fibrinous pleuropneumonia is the main postmortem lesion of acute systemic
pasteurellosis
False
Fowl cholera occurs mainly in the winter in Europe
False
Overcrowding is a predisposing factor of respiratory pasteurellosis of cattle
True
Transportation is a predisposing factor of respiratory pasteurellosis of calves
True
Respiratory pasteurellosis occurs only among cattle above 6 months of age
False
Germinative infection is a frequent way of transmission of the agent of fowl
cholera
False
Fowl cholera cannot be prevented by vaccination
False
Brucella ovis mainly causes abortion, clinical signs in males are rare
False
The clinical signs of anatipestifer disease are more severe in hens than in ducks
False
Glässer’s disease is caused by Actinobacillus suis
False
Ataxia and spasms are common clinical signs of anatipestifer disease
True
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae generally causes septicaemia
False
Infected cattle carry brucellae lifelong
True
Brucella melitensis can cause abortion of cattle
True
Tularaemia is a zoonosis.
True
Brucella canis can infect dogs.
True
Brucella suis can infect dogs
True
Brucella melitensis can infect dogs
True
Cattle cannot infect humans with brucellae
False
Glanders occurs only in horses
False
Bordetella bronchiseptica can complicate calicivirus infection of cats
True
Avian bordetellosis is generally limited to the respiratory tract, bacteriaemia is rare
True
Bartonella henselae can cause severe, generalised disease in cats
False
Ulcers in the skin are frequent clinical signs of glanders
True
Glanders is mainly an acute disease in horses
False
Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis is caused by Moraxella bovis
True
Orchitis and epididymitis are clinical signs of bovine genital campylobacteriosis
False
Melioidosis is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei
True
Lyme borreliosis is a zoonosis
True
Lawsonia intracellularis causes proliferative enteropathies in pigs
True
Rabbit syphilis is caused by Treponema paraluiscunniculi
True
Campylobacter fetus subsp. venerealis is a zoonotic agent
False
Introduction of young ewes in their first pregnancy into the flock of old pregnant
ewes can predispose to campylobacteriosis
True
Diarrhoea is a frequent clinical sign of bovine leptospirosis
False
Pneumonia is a frequent clinical sign of bovine leptospirosis
False
Clinical signs of the central nervous system can be seen in the case of leptospirosis
of young dogs
True
Inactivated vaccines are widely used for the prevention of swine dysentery
False
Leptospira Icterohaemorrhagiae can cause acute disease of young dogs
True
Mucous in the faeces is typical in the case of swine dysentery
True
Leptospira Pomona can cause abortion in pigs
True
Contagious agalactia of sheep and goats is caused by Mycoplasma agalactiae
True
Chlamydia pecorum can cause arthritis in cattle
True
Severe pneumonia is a postmortem lesion of Potomac horse fever
False
Canine monocytic ehrlichiosis is mainly seen in warmer climate
True
Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia is caused by Mycoplasma caprae
False
Chlamydia felis causes mainly abortion of cats
False
Leptospirosis is a zoonosis
True
In the case of marker vaccines, the field strains and the vaccine
strains can be differentiated
True
Euryxen agents have a wide host range
true
In the case of latent infection, the agents are continuously shed
False
The normal microflora of the gut is essential for animals; they
cannot live without it
False
Stenoxen agents have a wide host range
False
Germinative infection is very frequent in mammals
False
PCR is used for the detection of antibodies against porcine
parvovirus 1
False
Maternal antibodies against cat parvovirus can protect till 4 months age
True
SMEDI is caused by goose circovirus
False
The PMWS is a type IV hypersensitivity
False
The porcine circovirus can replicate in the foetus
True
In pigs the porcine circovirus 1 can cause PMWS
False
Herpesviruses can cause latent, persisting infections
True
Adenoviruses may cause urolithiasis in sheep
True
Polyomavirus infects parrots
True
Canine adenovirus 2 can cause upper respiratory tract
inflammation
True
The primary replication of haemorrhagic nephritis enteritis virus is
in small intestine
True
Adenoviruses can cause purulent bronchoalveolar pneumonia in
calves and lambs
False
The Aujeszky’s disease in cats is usually a mild respiratory disease
with quick recovery
False
For immunisation against equine rhinopneumonitis virus mostly
marker vaccines are used
False
Turkey herpesvirus can be used for vaccination against Marek’s
disease
True
The Marek’s disease virus causes immunosuppression
True
Swine pox is frequently generalized in adult pigs
False
Arthropods play an important role in the transmission of lumpy
skin disease virus
True
Arthropods play an important role in the transmission of sheeppox
virus.
False
Arthropods play an important role in the transmission of fowlpox
virus.
True
The African swine fever virus causes hemadsorption in cell cultures
True
Calves should be vaccinated against bovine papular stomatitis
False
The pseudocowpox virus is a zoonotic agent
True
Fowlpox is eradicated from most of the European countries
False
Pigs are infected with swine vesicular disease virus per os
True
Teschovirus is resistant, it remains infective in the faeces for a few weeks
True
Teschen disease occurs in cattle, sheep and pigs
False
Asymptomatic animals can carry Teschovirus
True
In acute African swine fever cases we can observe high mortality in
sows.
True
The foot and mouth disease virus is classified into 7 serotypes
True
Haemorrhages are frequent postmortem lesions of avian
encephalomyelitis.
False
Birds serve as reservoirs for the Eastern equine encephalomyelitis
virus.
True
RHD virus can be propagated in cell culture
False
Orbiviruses spread by droplet (aerosol) infection
False
Clinical signs of avian nephritis can be seen in the rst four weeks
of life
True
There are several virulence variants of bursitis virus
True
Orthoreoviruses frequently cause tenosynovitis of horses
False
Bluetongue virus is also foetopathic.
True
The border disease is present only in the United Kingdom
False
Goats are not susceptible to bluetongue virus
False
Horse encephalosis occurs only in America
False
Bluetongue disease occurs only in Africa
False
Bunyaviruses cause oral infection
False
Classical swine fever can cause transplacental infection
True
During necropsy of acute Classical swine fever cases,
haemorrhages can be seen in the gastric mucosa
True
All bunyaviruses are transmitted by mosquitoes
False
Classical swine fever infection results in thrombocytopaenia
True
Antigenic shift is behind the influenza pandemics
True
Classical swine fever virus can retain its infectivity for 6 months in frozen meat.
True
Newcastle disease is a notifiable disease
True
The virulence of avian influenza is determined by the i.v. pathogeny index and mortality
True
Paramyxoviruses cannot cause strong cytopathogenic effect in cell cultures
False
Antigenic drift means serials of point mutations in the HA and NA
genes
True
Bovine parainfluenza-3 virus infection is usually endemic in cattle farms
True
Natural reservoir of Hendra virus is flying fox
True
Lentogenic Newcastle disease virus cause severe fatal infection
False
The PRRS is caused by a coronavirus
False
Cats can beare regularly vaccinated against feline coronavirus
False
Vesicular stomatitis virus is transmitted by blood sucking
arthropods and direct contact
True
Foxes maintain sylvatic rabies in Europe
True
The porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus causes disease in calf
False
Vesicular stomatitis is a zoonotic disease
True
Vaccine against Equine Viral Arteritis is never used in Europe
False
There are no vaccines for the prevention of feline leukosi
False
Proventricular dilatation disease is a zoonosis
False
Equine infectious anaemia virus is transmitted with blood of the
infected animals.
True
Enzootic bovine leukosis virus can spread from cattle to sheep,
goats and other ruminants
False
Avian leukosis viruses have several subgroups
True
Avian leukosis virus can cause only lymphoid leukosis
False
Proventricular dilatation disease can occur in parrots
True
Bacillary haemoglobinuria is caused by Clostridium haemolyticum
True
Liver flukes can predispose animals to infectious necrotic hepatitis.
True
Pulpy kidney disease generally occurs in 1-2-week-old lambs
False
Pulpy kidney disease is caused by Clostridium perfringens D
True
In the case of transmissible encephalopathies lesions can only be seen in the central nervous system
True
Anaculture or anatoxin vaccines are used for the prevention of
blackleg
True
In the case of transmissible encephalopathies always degenerative
lesions can be seen
True
Morel’s disease occurs mainly in cattle, small ruminants and pigs
False
The agent of tetanus is strictly aerobic
False
Sheep are generally infected with the agent of swine erysipelas per
os.
False
Streptococcosis of pigs is caused by Streptococcus hyicus
False
Clinical signs of porcine streptococcosis can mainly be seen in piglets
True
In the case chronic erysipelas pneumonia is a frequent clinical sign
False
Diamond skin disease is a clinical form of erysipela
True
Paratuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp.
paratuberculosis
True
The agent of avian tuberculosis infects animals generally per os.
True
Infected cattle shed the agents of bovine tuberculosis in tracheal
discharge.
True
Only aerosol infection occurs in the case of bovine tuberculosis
False
Caseous lymphadenitis of sheep occurs in tropical countries but
not in Europe
False
Clinical signs of caseous lymphadenitis of sheep can be seen only above 3-4 months of age
True
The tuberculin test is used for the detection of infection of animals
with mycobacteria
True
Dermatophilosis occurs mainly in moderate climate, especially in
winter
False
Septicaemic Escherichia coli strains are responsible for E. coli
diseases of poultry
True
Coli diarrhoea of new-born piglets is caused by mbriated
Escherichia coli strains
True
Coli septicaemia of calves is seen most frequently after weaning
False
Mastitis is a common clinical sign of bovine nocardiosis
True
Dermatophilus congolensis is the agent of dermatophilosis
True
Actinomyces bovis is the causative agent of bovine actinomycosis
True
Salmonella Avium is the main aetiological agent of fowl
paratyphoid
False
Humans are infected with salmonellae mainly per os
True
All serotypes of salmonellae can cause salmonellosis in humans
False
