ruminant and porcine skin

Question 1

number one cause of food animal pruritis

Answer 1

lice

Question 2

our food animal staph pyoderma drug

Answer 2

ceftiofur

Question 3

moist environment, lesions nonpruritic on ears, nose, limbs

Answer 3

dermatophilus congolensis. rain scald

Question 4

dermatophilosis treatment

Answer 4

fix moist environment, treat for ectoparasites, scrub scabs and oxytet

Question 5

round alopecia on the head, flat rough, nonulcerative, common in club lambs

Answer 5

trichophyton. ringworm

Question 6

when is ring worm most common

Answer 6

winter and spring. confinement, lack of housing, young animals.

Question 7

ringworm treatment

Answer 7

antifungal creams, (chlorihex, iodine), self limiting

Question 8

prevention of ring worm

Answer 8

disinfect club lamb things, treat lice, reduce moistures

Question 9

raised, nodular wart-like things on the head and neck of cattle. can be on penis

Answer 9

papilloatosis (warts). contagious,

Question 10

tx for warts

Answer 10

spontaneous regression or removal cosmetic. crush them?

Question 11

crusty muzzle of sheep, proliferative gingiva

Answer 11

parapox. orf, sore mouth

Question 12

treatment for orf

Answer 12

once a farm is infected, it always is. it is self limiting. only vax if you already have it on your farm.

Question 13

biting lice in cattle

Answer 13

bovicola

Question 14

sucking lice in cattle

Answer 14

maematopinus

Question 15

when do goats, sheeps, and swine get lice

Answer 15

all year (cattle winter and spring)

Question 16

when do you treat cattle for lice

Answer 16

in the fall and the first of the year

Question 17

pruritis, scaling, crusty. cattle: tail head and escushon
sheeps: pastern area, scrotum

Answer 17

chorioptic mange

Question 18

treatment for chorioptes

Answer 18

eprinex, topical insecticides, chlrohex scrubs, 1 dose of dexmeth and ceftiofur if severe hypersensitivity

Question 19

pustules, nodules on the face, mandible, and eyes of the goat, not food animal issue just cosmetic

Answer 19

demodectic mange. ddx from caseous lymphadenitits.

Question 20

associated with traumatized tissue, fecal staining, soaked fleece, maggot in fleece or wounds

Answer 20

blow fly strike

Question 21

treatment for blow fly strike

Answer 21

clean area, avermectin, nsaids +-antibiotics

Question 22

bumps along the dorsum with yellowish serum and a hole

Answer 22

hypoderma (bots)

Question 23

treatment for bots?

Answer 23

grubicide prior to nov 15th. do nothing if lesions form

Question 24

what causes photosensitization

Answer 24

primary: toxic plants
secondary: liver damage. rare

Question 25

what causes wool break

Answer 25

anything that causes high fever.

Question 26

treatment of potbelly pig dry skin

Answer 26

pet tabs FA, skin so soft, bacon grease

Question 27

what causes greasy pig

Answer 27

staph hyicus

Question 28

rancid smelling pig, dark scabs, maybe systemic signs

Answer 28

greasy pig

Question 29

pustular dermatitis? treatment?

Answer 29

streptococcus. selflimiting or antibiotics

Question 30

what causes porcine dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome

Answer 30

circovirus, immune complex mediated dz

Question 31

crusty ears, perianal area and neck of pigs

Answer 31

sarcoptes scabiei

Question 32

treatment for sarcoptic mange in pigs

Answer 32

injectable avermectins plus topical ear treatment amitraz

Question 33

nutritional parakeratosis in pigs caused by

Answer 33

zinc deficiency

Question 34

plaques with red ring around them. in young pigs, maybe hereditary. no pruritis

Answer 34

pityriasis rosea, psoriasiform dermatitis