Rabbits Flashcards
What is the significance of the follwoing lagamorph genuses:
Lepus
Oryctolagus
Sylvilagus
Lepus = hares Oryctolagus= domestic rabbit Sylvilagus= cottontail
True or false: The number of rabbits used in research has dramatically increased in the past 5 years.
False, slow/gradual decline
What spontaneous neoplasm occurs in up to 80% of older rabbits?
Endometrial adenocarcinoma
What is the dental formula for the rabbit?
I 2/1 C 0/0 P 3/2 M 3/3
What is the common name for the second and rudimentary pair of incisiors in the rabbit?
Peg teeth
Cecotrophs are high in what nutrients?
Water and B vitamins
What is unique about the heart valves in rabbits?
R AV valve has 2 rather than 3 cusps
Describe the pH of rabbit urine
Alkaline, ~8.2
What components of rabbit urine cause it to be turbid?
High levels of calcium carbonate monohydrate and ammonium magnesium phosphate
In regards to sexing rabbits what is the significance of the dewlap?
Dewlap only present on females
Name that rabbit pathogen: Bacteria that causes a wide range of clinical manifestations including rhinitis, pneumonia, otits, and abscesses
Pasteurella multocida
Name that rabbit pathogen: This G- bacteria may cause upper respiratory signs and rabbits can be carrier of this bacteria for guinea pigs, dogs, and pigs
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Name that rabbit pathogen: This G- bacillus is the causative agent of Tyzzer’s disease
Clostridium piliforme
Describe the clinical manifestations of Tyzzer’s disease
Profuse watery diarrhea often around weaning, high mortality
Bacterial differentials for diarrheal disease in weanling rabbits with high mortality
Tyzzer’s, enterotoxemia (C. spiriforme), colibacilosis
Bacterial differentials for diarrheal disease in weanling rabbits with low mortality
Lawsonia intracellularis, colibacilosis
Name that rabbit pathogen: Cause high mortality diarrheal disease in weanling rabbits, causative agent of enterotoxemia
Clostridium spiriforme
How do you diagnose enterotoxemia?
ID on fecal and isolation of iota toxin
Name that rabbit pathogen: Bacteria responsible for colibacilosis
Escherichia coli
Name that rabbit pathogen: Causative agent of proliferative enteropathy which results in low mortality diarrheal disease in weanling rabbits
Lawsonia intracellularis
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: enrofloxacin
Good
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: chloramohenicol
Good
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: trimethoprim- sulfa
Good
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic:Tetracycline
Good
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: Tylosin
Good
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: parenteral penicillin
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Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: Clindamycin
Bad
Good antibiotic/bad antibiotic: Lincomycin
Bad