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)