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What age is majority of resp disease seen in cattle?

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YOungsters

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WHat temperature indicates a problem in cows/calves?

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> 39.5*

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What is BRD?

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Bovine respiratory disease = Calf pneumonia

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What problems does BRD cause?

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  • painful
  • expensive and time consuming to treat
  • death
  • poor growth rate
  • welfare problem
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Where do majority of pneumonias affect the lung?

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Cranial lobes

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What may affect immune status of a young calf?

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  • environment

- colostrum

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ENvironmental factors that affect immunity

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  • housing
  • ventilation
  • stocking density
  • mixing
  • sharing air space with other age groups
  • changes in weather
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How may wet bedding affect resp?

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Ammonia irritating to resp passages

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What is the criteria for weaning a calf?

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eating 1kg concentrates (per day? check) usually 55-60d

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WHen are calves mixed after weaning?

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Either immediately after (~ days) or a couple of weeks

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What calf factors affect immunity?

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  • colostrum (6L within 12 hours, first 24 hours most important)
  • mixing
  • transport
  • home bred or purchased
  • nutrition
  • standard of husbandry
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What is CMR?

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Calf milk replacer

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WHat are the 2 forms of BRD?

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  • Chronic BRD

- Enzootic = Acute pneumonia

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What is seen with enzootic pneumonia?

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Groups of calves affected 
- reduced feed intake
- dry/moist cough
- ^ resp rate 
> listen for coughing and look at RR of calves before disturbing them (20-40/min calves, 10-30/min adults)
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Individual examination findings - what is the most important parameter?

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39.5* (temp most important, temp all calves)
- respiration >40/min
- auscultation both lungs and trachea
- ocular nasal discharge
- conjunctivitis
- gently pinch trachea
> full PE only few calves only

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What are other terms for acute pneumonia?

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Enzootic or viral

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Pathogenesis of enzootic pneumonia?

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  • 1* pathogen (virus, mycoplasma) damages resp tract

- 2* athogen (bacteria) invades and causes more substantial damage

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Does PI3 always cause disease?

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Not necessarily, usually present in calf lungs

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Does BRSV always cause disease? What is BRSV?

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  • bovine respiratory syncitial virus

- causes very nasty symptoms and death

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Does IBRcause serious clinical signs? Where does this infect?

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  • Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (herpes virus 1)
  • Infects URT
  • v. severe pneumonia
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Which pathogen is associated with SARS like disease?

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Bovine Coronavirus

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How may BVDV be associated with pneumonia? Does BVDV cause diarrhoea?

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Does NOT Usually cause diarrhoea!!

  • immunosupression
  • can worsen concurrent pneumonia infections
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Which bacteria may be involved in calf pneumonia?

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  • Manheimia Haemolytica
  • Pasteurella Multocida
  • Arcanobacterium pyogenes
  • Histophilus somni
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Management of an outbreak of calf pneumonia

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  • treatent
  • environment
  • PME of dead calves
  • ID pathogens
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Tx of calf pneumonia?
- attend and do not just dispense Abx over the phone - if >25% affected -> metaphylaxis (treat whole group) > ABx (not lots of hard evidence but used most commonly) > NSAIDs (maybe more effective against the viral component!)
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"Tx rules" for calf pneumonia
- Read data sheet - when to repeat - Weigh animals - Human safety (eg. micotil fatal in humans, suicide) - Meat and milk withdrawal time - Injection site (sc/im) - Nuflor may not be used in breeding males
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Side effects of long term NSAID uese?
- GIT abomasal damage | - renal failure if dehydrated
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WHat samples can be taken to ID pathogens? Which calves do you want to sample?
- calves in early stages of disease > transtracheal wash > BAL (virus isolation, bacterial culture and sense) > Nasopharyngeal swab (virus FAT, culture sense) > serology (paired samples clotted, 2-3 weeks inbetween, beware MDA present in young feacal exam (salmonella, parasites)
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What can be checked at PM?
BRD - specific diagnostics on lung - Bullae may be ppresent
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What does IBR (BHV1) cause?
- Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis - Bovine Herpes Virus 1 (BHV 1) > pyrexia > conjunctivitis > coughing > tracheitis (auscultate trachea) > URTI *NB: BHV1.2 - gential form -> vulvovaginitis etc.
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What clinical synromes may IBR cause?
- resp disesae (rhinitis, tracheitis, conjunctivitis) - ocular form - encephalitis (young) - abortion (sporadic) - repro failure > latent infection
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How does BHV1 (IBR) become latent?
Resides in trigeminal ganglion (CN V) | Stress -> recrudescence
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Treatment of IBR
NSAIDs
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4 methods of IBR control
- state of the herd (bulk milk Ab or sample few beef; monitor abortions; pneumonia cases) - biosecurity - vaccination (work well; before or after natural exposure prevent respiratory disease, v shedding, prevent abortion) - eradication
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What 2 types of IBR vaccines are available? What new type of vaccine is available for IBR?
- LIve attenuated vaccines (can become latent in the trigeminal ganglion, ^ risk, only 1 or 2 injections needed) - Dead killed inactivated, less effective, more boosters needed > MArker vaccine (DIVA: differentiate infected from vax animals) > Intranasal vax quite good for local immunity
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What is the most common cause of aspiration pneumonia?
Stomach tubing wrong
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What pathogen is associated with calf diptheria? WHat else is this known as? CLinical signs and PE?
- necrotic laryngitis > fusobacterium necrophorum - foul smelling necrotic lesions, can be caused by food trapped between teeth and buccal mucosa - swollen cheeks - ^ respiratory noise - respond well to B lactams (G+ organism) - auscultate over larynx and trachea (maybe not lungs)
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Causes of calf diptheria?
- poor stomach tubing technique - > mucosal injury calves 1-4 months - poor hygeine of feeeding equipment - course feeds
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Tx calf diptheria
Abx | - tracheostomy or surery to debride
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Which breeds are susceptible to diptheria?
Texel rams and belgian blues
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What is the most common disease of older (1-2yo calves)
Shipping fever (transit fever/pasteurellosis) esp seen in feedlots in america - signs shown 10-14d after transport
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What predisposes to shipping fever (pastuerellosis)?
- transport, mixing, temperature, stress
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Clinical signs/presentation of shipping fever?
- sudden onset pyrexia, anorexia, ^ RR, cough, ^ resp noise, grunting - may be found dead -> PM!
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Pathogens involved with shipping fever?
Mouth commensals - Manheimia haemolytica - Pastuerella Multocida - Other viuses and bacteria
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Pathogenesis of shipping fever? Problems?
- Severe acute bronchopneumonia cranio-ventral lobes - can become chronic - welfare problem - economic loss due to v growth
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How does respiratory disease manifest differently in adults cf. calves?
One off rather than disease outbreak
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What is fog fever also known as? What is it?
- Acute Bovine Pulmonary Oedema and Emphysema - Atypical Interstitial Pneumonia > Non-infectious disease associated with cattle grazing lush pastures in Autumn > Older cattle >2yo > up to 50% group can be affected
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Pathogensis of fog fever?
- L-tryptophan -> 3-methylindole in rumen -> pulmonary toxicity and damage
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Clinical signs of fog fever
- sidden onset - group affected - very severe respiratory distress, varies between individuals - frothing at mouth - distress or death when attempting to move - subcut emphysema over back and thorax
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First action if fog fever noticed? Tx? Prognosis?
``` Get the animals off the pasture - corticosteroids/ NSAIDs - diuretics * NB: corticosteroids in pregnant cattle -> abortion Prognosis = guarded ```
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Prevention of fog fever
- restrict access to lush pastures - strip grazing - feed hay before and during intiial period of grazing new pasture - avoid over fertilising pasture
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What is bovine farmers lung?
Hypersensitivity to moulds - usually mouldy or poorly made hay - poor ventilation > acute with mouth breathing, coughing, drop in milk yield > chronic insidious with weight loss and coughing *Farmer may have it aswell!

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