SECOND PRIORITY DISEASES Flashcards
SECOND PRIORITY DISEASES
communicable diseases which are considered to be socio-economic and or public health importance and which are significant in the international trade of animals and animal products, animal feeds vet drugs and products
Amendment to DA-BAI
DA-BAI AO No 12 s. 1992
Aka Clostridial myositis
BLACKLEG
BLACKLEG is Necrotizing myositis in ___ to __ animals
2 month to
2 year old
what is the manifestation of blackleg?
Hind quarter lesions: Black
Quarter disease
blackleg
- Acute febrile disease of cattle and sheep
- Present world wide
- Targets healthy heavily muscled animals
what is the Etiologic agent of True blackleg
Clostridium chauvoei (gram -, spore forming)
what is the Etiologic agent of false blackleg or malignant edema (secondary)
C. septicum and C. novyi (gram -, spore forming)
more accurate term for false black leg?
malignant edema
mode of transmission
soil-borne infection and spreads thru feces
flooding
excavation of soil
Carcasses of infected animals
open woumd
clinical signs of blackleg
butyric odor is quite characteristic
Fever
● Swelling and pain
● Acute lameness
● Edema and crepitation of affected muscles
● Death 12-48 hours
what dz with CS: butyric odor is quite characteristic
Fever
● Swelling and pain
● Acute lameness
● Edema and crepitation of affected muscles ● Death 12-48 hours
blackleg
blackleg may occur to what species and how?
Sheep (trauma, birthing, vaccines, wound)
Cattle (Usually endogenous infection, no wounds or trauma but can also have wound infections, high temp and pr)
Buffaloes (Crepitus in affected muscle (swelling)
- Gas within the muscles)
diagnosis of blackleg?
Bacteriology , Histology, Necropsy & Cs
fluorescent antibody test (FAT ata ung fast anf reliable)
tx: first choice of antibiotics?
Penicillin (Usually unsuccessful)
surgical debridement of blackleg
fasciotomy
prevention of blackleg
Proper disposal of carcasses (deep burial
or burning of the carcass)
- Disinfection
- Vaccination (polyvalent bacterin)
vaxx for blackleg?
polyvalent bacterin
Primary source of reinfection of a herd with blackleg is?
Animals dying of blackleg
spp causing bovine anaplasmosis
Anaplasma marginale
used inn vax prep for bovine anaplasmosis
A. centrale
Obligate intraerythrocytic parasite
Anaplasma spp.
BOVINE ANAPLASMOSIS endemic in what areas
tropical and subtropical areas
transmission of bovine anaplasmosis
Blood-transmitted (always the source of infection)
Reproduction within the tick vectors
Rhipicephalus / Boophilus microplus
Transplacental
Biting flies (tabanids)
Blood-contaminated fomites (use of contaminated needles, blood transfusion)
biological vectors of bovine anaplasmosis
tick (Rhipicephalus / Boophilus microplus)
diff ng bos taurus indicus vs Bos taurus taurus
Bos taurus indicus (tropical)
Bos taurus taurus (temperate) = no humps
breed of cattle more resistant to ticks
indicus
Susceptibility to_________: Breeds with black or red coat vs. white coat
Tabanid (biting flies):
breed with red coat and Inherent resistance to ticks and even in flies
Afrikaner
bovine anaplasmosis age susceptibility?
(old»>young) mas suscep ang old
kasi Young develops immunity (if enzootic only kaso RARE ang enzootic)
Anemia
Fever
Jaundice
Due to accumulation of bilirubin resulting to yellowish coloration
Emaciation
Impaired infertility
what dz
bovine anaplasmosis
unconju cannot be excreted from the body (not soluble)
t or f
t
Needs to be conjugated wth _______in the liver
glucoronic acid
bilirubin Excreted via feces or kidneys called:
urobilirubin
Due to accumulation of bilirubin resulting to yellowish coloration
jaundice
Which disease does not cause affected cattle (hematuria, hemoglobinuria)
anaplasmosis
Used to detect small amounts of Anaplasma
Nucleic probe analysis
standard of clinincal patho of anaplasmosis
Serology
tx for anaplasmosis
Oxytet
Imidocarb
Estradiol cypionate
Blood transfusions (PCV >15%)
Good prognosis if PCV is still stable/high
for intracellular dz
target 30S subunit of organism
oxytet
if Rbc already degraded what happens
No hemoglobinuria
Also known as Redwater fever or Cattle tick fever
BOVINE BABESIOSIS
Inc breakdown of rbc before it is degraded by the spleen
red water or hemoglobinuria
Caused by _________
Transmitted by __________
Babesia spp.
ticks (Rhipicephalus / Boophilus microplus)
State wherein clinical dx occurs rarely or not at all
Endemic Stability
dz na possible ang Natural vaccination
bovine babesiosis
Umbrella term for anaplasmosis and babesiosis
Cattle tick fever:
Most common: b. Bigemina and b. Bovis
Most impt species sa_______
Major, divergens -____
More impt ay __________ Causes neurologic
tropical
temperate
bovis
spp prevalent also
babesia
Theileria orientalis
tx for babesiosis
Tx drug: Diminazene, imidocarb,
Test and slaughter
Bovine Tuberculosis
tx for tb
isoniazid
Chronic contagious disease Produces primary caseous nodules
TUBERCULOSIS
Lungs
- Pulmonary LN
- Develop in close, crowded and unsanitary
confinement
- Zoonotic
tb (M. tuberculosis)
Reverse zoonotic possible in TB t or f
t
cats and dogs are other sources of infection in tb t or f
t
in TB, Organism is excreted in:
Exhaled air
Sputum
Feces
Milk
1 causative agent and cause is the consumption or
ingestion of raw milk (humans)
Mycobacterium bovis
via what ang tb sa aninmals?
inhalation
capricious appetitie
fluctuatuing temp
sluggish
abortion
orchiitis
mastiitis
tb
transmissionn ng tb
Inhalation
Direct contact
Ingestion: Contaminated feces in feed
Mode of entry ng tb
- GIT
- Skin
- Respiratory tract - #1 cause of mortality in animals
- Uterine vein in fetuses
Sources of infection
Contaminated milk
- Pasteurization temp kill tubercle bacilli
- Humans: ingestion of raw milk 1# cause of
mortality
* Contaminated feed and water * Sputum
* Saliva
* Urine
- Zoonotic; can also be reverse zoonosis (humans → cattle)
- Farm staff exposed may become infected * Feces
* Other animals (dog, cat)`
what dz
Production of pus and cheesy exudate occur (calcify)
↓
Encapsulation of lesions (granulation tissue and fibrous capsule)
↓
tb
Necropsy findings color carcass and intestinnes
Cattle - yellow
- Buffalo - white
- Others - grey
diagnosis of tb ?
Single intradermal test (SID)
comparative intradermal test
Isolation of organism
Ziehl - Neelsen technique
- Tuberculin skin testing
- PCR
saan may PPD and meaning
sa SID, purified protein derivative