Sheep and Goats Flashcards
What is the model for B mannosidosis and how is the condition inherited?
Nubian Goat, autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease
What order, family, subfamily do ovis aries and Capra hircus belong to?
Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Caprinae
What is an autosomal dominantly inherited disease with incomplete penetrance in a goat that affects striated skeletal muscles?
Myotonia Congenita
What kind of virus creates a model of immune mediated arthritis in sheep and goats?
Lentivirus
What is the sheep model used in “indirect-reacting” hyperbilirubinemia?
Corriedale, Dubin Johnson Syndrome, conjugated bilirubin = direct reacting
Southdown, Gilbert’s Syndrome, unconjugated = indirect
What breed of sheep a model of muscular dystrophy? What muscle group is most often affected?
Merino sheep- Congenital Progressive Ovine Muscular Dystrophy- quadriceps
What is the predominant leukocyte in ruminants?
lymphocytes
What are the gestation periods of sheep, goats, and cattle?
What type of placentation?
Sheep- 147-150, goats- 145-155 both are seasonally polyestrus
cattle- 280 days- polyestrus
Epithelialchorial
What disease does Clostridium perfringens C cause?
Struck, enterotoxemia- fatal hemorrhagic enterocolitis
What disease does C. perfriingens type D cause?
Pulpy kidney disease- disease of sheep- sudden death
What disease does C. chauvoei cause? C. novyi? C. septicum?
Blackleg
Big head, Black disease
Malignant Edema
What disease does C. hemolyticum cause? C. tetani?
bacillary hemoglobinuria, red water
tetanus
What types of mycobacterium infect ruminants?
M. bovis (s, g, c)
M. avium (s, g)
M. tuberculosis (g)
What type of virus is contagious ecthyma/ contagious pustular dermatitis caused by?
orf- pox- parapox
What is the most important viral disease of goats? What type of virus is it?
Caprine Arthritis Encephalitis Virus- lentivirus- neuro signs in kids, progressive arthritis 6 months and older, life long infection
