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Special characteristics Flashcards

1
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Replicates in apical cytoplasm of enterocytes

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Lawsonia intracellularis

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Cannot be grown in laboratory media- can be cultured in enterocyte cell lines

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Lawsonia intracellularis

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Causes porcine proliferation enteropathy and equine proliferative enteropathy

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Lawsonia intracellularis

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Has extra cellular urease as an important virulence factor

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Helicobacter pylori

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Causes cholera in humans

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Vibrio cholerae

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What is the route of infection for campylobacter fetus subspecies fetus

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Ingestion of contaminated materials

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What results in late pregnancy abortions or stillbirths

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Campylobacter fetus subp. Fetus

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What disease causes plancentitis with hemorrhagic necrotic cotyledons and edamatous or leathery intercodylenary areas

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Campylobacter fetus subspecies. Fetus

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What bacteria causes an autolyzed fetus with orange-yellow necrotic foci in the liver

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Campylobacter fetus subspecies. Fetus

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10
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How does campylobacter fetus subspecies. Venerealis get transmitted

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Breeding or artificial insemination with infected bull semen

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What bacteria causes endometriosis, salpingitis, and transient infertility, and early embryonic deaths

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Campylobacter fetus subspecies. Venerealis

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What is a major cause of diarrhea and intestinal disease in humans and is transmitted by ingestion of contaminated materials

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Campylobacter jejuni

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What causes subsequent Guillain Barre syndrome

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Campylobacter jejuni

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14
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What causes the fatal systemic disease Glanders in horses

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Burkholderia mallei

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What is a foreign animal reportable disease that is zoonotic

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Burkholderia Mallei

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What causes meliodosis or Whitmore’s disease

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Burkholderia pseudomallei

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What is a disease of tropic climates, is fatal, and humans and animals be from contaminated environmental sources

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Melioidosis or Whitmore’s disease

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18
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What forms biofilms on disenfectants

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Psedomonas aeruginosa

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What causes infections such as otitis external, bacterial keratitis, skin and wound infections, lymphangitis and pneumonia and is an opportunistic pathogen

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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20
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What causes the sexually transmitted, reportable disease in horses

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Taylorella equigenitalis

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21
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what causes contagious equine metritis

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Taylorella Equigenitalis

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What disease are stallions a long term carrier of and causes temporary infertility in mares

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Taylorella equigenitalis

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What causes a vector transmitted disease that infects cats and can be transmitted to humans

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Bartonella henselae

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What disease can be transmitted by ingestion, inhalation, vectors, direct contact, or laboratory exposure

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Francicella tularensis

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25
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What is a biological warfare BSL3 agent

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Francicella tularensis

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What is a bacteria that cats can transmit to humans after they are infected from hunting dead rodents

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Francicella tularensis

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27
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What causes low asymptomatic disease in humans, fever chills, fatigue, weight loss, discospondylitis, and lymphadenopathy

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Brucella canis

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What causes or hit is, epididymitis, infertility, abnormal sperm count, late term abortions, uveitis, and diskospondylitis

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Brucella canis

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What is a reportable disease in livestock and causes Bang’s disease or undulant fever in humans

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Brucella abortus

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30
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What causes abortion and embryonic death in cows as well as epididymitis, or Chili’s, bursitis in bulls

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Brucella abortus

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What bacteria is facultative intracellular, can survive in macrophages, and inhibits phago-lysosomal fusion

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Brucella

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What results in febrile, chronic granulomatous disease with broad manifestations in incidental hosts and abortions in pregnant animals

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Brucella

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33
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What causes corneal ulceration and edema, ocular pain, photophobia, and lacrimation

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Moraxella bovis

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34
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What causes sleepy foal disease

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Actinobacillus equuli subspecies. Equuli

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What bacteria can be transmitted through oral, umbilical, or respiratory route in uterus, parturition, or shortly after birth

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Actinobacillus equuli subspecies. Equuli

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36
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What disease causes purple to arthritis and nephritis

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Sleepy foal disease

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37
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What is an economically important bacteria in swine

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Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

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38
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What swine disease is usually associated with other bacterial and viral infections

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Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

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What swine bacteria causes disease in pigs <6 months during colder months

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Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae

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40
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What causes wooden tongue in ruminants

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Actinobacillus lignieresii

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41
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What two pathogens cause diseases from plant trauma

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Actinobacillus lignieresii and Sporothrix shenckii

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What bacteria causes pyogranulomatous gloss it is and pyogranulomatous lymphadenitis

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Actinobacillus lignieresii

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43
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What causes thromboembolic meningoencephalitis in cattle

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Histophilus somni

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44
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What causes sleeper syndrome in cattle

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Histophilus somni

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45
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What bacteria causes necrotic laryngitis, myocarditis, otitis, conjunctivitis, myelitis, arthritis, mastitis, abortion, Vulvitis, vaginitis, cervicitis, endometriosis, orchitis, teme

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Histophilus somni

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46
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What causes glassers disease in pigs

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Hemophilus parasuis

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47
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What causes polyserositis, polysynovitis, and meningitis in pigs

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Hemophilus parasuis

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48
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What causes new duck disease

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Riemerella anatipestifer

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49
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What’s causes septicemia an dpolyserositis in ducklings

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Riemerella anatipestifer

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50
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What bacteria has leukotoxin as a major virulence factor

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Mannheimia hemolytica

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51
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What bacteria causes fatal bite related infections

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Pasteurella multocida

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52
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What can be treated with beta lactams

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Pasteurella multocida

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53
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What causes snuffles in rabbits

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Pasteurella Multocida type A

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54
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What causes a progressive rhinitis in 4-12 week old pigs

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Pasterurella Multocida

55
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What causes a septicemic disease of domestic and wild birds (especially mature ones) with high morbidity and mortality

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Pasteurella Multocida

56
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What causes fibrinous bronchopneumonia in cattle

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Pasteurella Multocida

57
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What causes suppuration infections that result in respiratory infections, septicemia, abscesses, soft-tissue wound infections, and mastitis

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Pasteurella multocida

58
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What causes a bacterial illness of salmon idk and rainbow trout

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Yersinia ruckeri

59
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What causes necrohemorrhagic periodontitis/gingivitis and arthritis in nonhuman primates

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Shigella dysentriae

60
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For what bacteria is a gall bladder culture in cattle the most effective in detecting

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Salmonella

61
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What bacteria causes diarrhea, inflammation, vascultiies, thromboembolism, hemorrhages, infarcts in liver, spleen, and lungs as well as infarcts in the small and large intestine

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Salmonella

62
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What bacteria has a type III secretion system

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Salmonella

63
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What bacteria can cause intestinal infections as well as extra-intestinal infections such as UTIS, septicemia, and mastitis

64
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What causes human syphilis

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Treponema pallidum

65
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What causes rabbit syphilis

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Treponema paraluiscuniculi

66
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What causes papillomatous digital dermatitis in dairy cows

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Treponema spp.

67
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What affects pigs 6-12 weeks of age causing bloody diarrhea, dehydration, and weight loss

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Brachyspira hydodysenteriae

68
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What spirochete is screened for with a SNAP test followed by a C6 Eliza and Western Blot for confirmation

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Borrelia burgdorferi

69
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What causes febrile illness in humans and renal/hepatic/pulmonary complications

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Leptospira

70
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Microscopic agglutination test is the gold standard test that detects antibodies to what?

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Leptospira

71
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Penicillins are used to treat acute disease, and doxycycline treat the carrier state for post-exposure prophylaxis of what pathogen

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Leptospira

72
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What can cause reproductive failure due to early embryonic death and repeat breeding in cattle

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Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar hardjo

73
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What causes moon blindness in horses

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Leptospira

74
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What causes abortions and systemic illness in foals

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Leptospira

75
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What has a role in Equine Recurrent Uveitis,

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Leptospira

76
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What bacteria leads to fever, depression, dehydration, anorexia, vomiting, hemorrhagic diarrhea, and lymphadenopathy in dogs

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Neorickettsia helminthoeca

77
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What infects monocytes and macrophages and causes lesions in intestines of dogs

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Neorickettsia helminthoeca

78
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Nanophyetus Salmincola is associated with

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Neorickettsia helminthoeca

79
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What bacteria infects enterocytes and monocytes and causes hemorrhagic enterocolitis in horses

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Neorickettsia risticii

80
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What causes Heart water disease in ruminants

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Ehrlichia ruminatium

81
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What is a foreign animal reportable disease in ruminants

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Ehrlichia ruminatium

82
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What is transmitted through a tick vector Amblyoma

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Ehrlichia Ruminatium

83
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What can be diagnosed by the presence of dark purple colonies made up of clusters of individual organism

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Ehrlichia ruminatium

84
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What causes splenomegaly, ocular and nasal discharge, peripheral edem, petechial and ecchymotic hemorrhage, neurological signs, and pancytopenia

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Ehrlichia canis

85
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What infects monocytes and forms morulae

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Ehrlichia canis

86
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What causes canine monocyte can ehrlichiosis

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Ehrlichia canis

87
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What causes infectious cyclic thrombocytopenia in dogs

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Anaplasma platys

88
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What infects erythrocytes in ruminants resulting in fever, anemia, and icterus

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Anaplasma Marginale

89
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What infects older cattle more frequently than calves

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Anaplasma marginale

90
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What bacteria can be demonstrated on erythrocyte blood smears

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Anaplasma Marginale

91
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What causes canine granylocytic ehrlichiosis

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Anaplasma phagocytophilum

92
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What vector born bacteria likes neutrophils

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Anaplasma phagocytophilum

93
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What causes febrile illness, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, and necrotizing small vessel vascuilits

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Anaplasma phagocytophilum

94
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What is transmitted to humans by cat fleas

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Rickettsia felis

95
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What organism invades and replicates in endothelial cells of smaller blood vessels

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Rickettsia rickettsii

96
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What initiates platelet activation, intravascular coagulation and progressive necrotizing vasculitis, peticheal hemorrhage, and edema

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Rickettsia rickettsii

97
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What causes sub clinical infection, placentitis and abortion in cattle, sheep

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Coxiella burnetii

98
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What is highly persistent in the environment as an endospore-like form

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Coxiella burnetii

99
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What zoonotic bacteria is released around parturition in birth fluids, milk, urine, feces, and spread by inhalation

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Coxiella Burnetii

100
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What causes serious febrile flu like illness and sometimes pneumonia, hepatitis, and endocarditis in humans

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Coxiella burnetii

101
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What cases conjunctivitis and rhinitis in cats

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Chlamydia felis

102
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What can be diagnosed by microscopic detection of inclusion bodies

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Chlamydia psittaci

103
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What is a BSL3 and reportable pathogen

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Chlamydia psittaci

104
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What causes multi focal necrosis in the liver and spleen and is associated with small granular, basophilic intracytoplasmic bacterial inclusions in multiple cell types

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Chlamydia psittaci

105
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What causes enteritis, abortion, polyarthritis, polyserositis, conjunctivitis, and pneumonia

106
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What causes cutaneous cysts in mammals and bird

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Rhinosporidium seeberi

107
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What causes cutaneous disease in amphibians

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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

108
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What infects skin, muzzle, ears, and wings of hibernating bats

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Pseudogymnoascus destructans

109
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What causes Florida horse leech Kunkers

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Phythium Insidiosm

110
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What can cause cutaneous and subcutaneous lesions in horses, cats, calves, and humans as well as GI disease in dogs and cats

111
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What causes cutaneous dx disseminated dx in dogs and cats and mastitis i cattle

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Prototheca

112
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What looks like a segmented yeast under microscope

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Prototheca

113
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What is a fast-growing mold

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Aspergillus

114
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What is a cigar shaped pleimorphic yeast

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Sprothrix schenckii

115
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What fungus produces thick walled spherules containing endospores

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Coccidiodes immitis

116
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What fungus causes infection after inhalation of arthroconidia

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Coccidiodes immitis

117
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What fungus causes osteomyelitis and signs similar to TB

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coccoides immitis

118
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What fungus causes chronic/active respiratory disease and disseminated disease in dogs, cats and humans but only causes intestinal disease in dogs

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Histoplasma capsulatum

119
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What is the second most common fungal infection in cats

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Histoplasma capsulatum

120
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What is a small, oval yeast, normally found in macrophage infected tissue

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Histoplasma capsulatum

121
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What fungus has large broad based budding

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Blastomyces dermatitidis

122
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What fungus is found in the OH, MS river valley

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Blastomyces Dermatitidis

123
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What fungus causes pulmonary disease with cutaneous, ocular, and bone involvement

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Blastomyces dermatitidis

124
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What fungus has large round to oval budding yeast

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Cryptococcus neoformans

125
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What fungus has a prominent mucopolysaccharide capsule

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Cryptococcus neoformans

126
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What fungus causes CNS manifestations , chronic upper respiratory tract infections, gelatinous masses, and polyps with minimal inflammation

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Cryptococcus neoformans

127
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What fungus causes superficial infections of skin and mucosa

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Candida albicans

128
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What fungus causes whitish yellow hyperkeratotic lesions in tongue, mouth, proventriculus, and stomach

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Candida albicans

129
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What fungus causes mastitis, vaginitis in women, and diaper rash in children

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Candida Albicans

130
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What yeast is thick-walled, and bottle shaped

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Malassezia pachydermatitis

131
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What yeast causes superficial moist dermatitis and otitis externa in dogs

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Malassezia pachydermatitis

132
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What yeast in a commensalism on skin of animals and common in dog’s ears and skin

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Malassezia pachydermatitis

133
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What fungus is detected with wood lamp detection

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Microsporum gallinae

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