Stomatitis Flashcards
What are stomatitis, glossitis, & gingivitis?
- inflammation of the mucous mbs of the oral cavity, tongue, & gingiva, respectively
what is stomatitis often accompanied by ?
- anorexia caused by painful mastication
- hypersalivation (ptyalism) from overproduction or failure to swallow
How do we classify stomatitides in domestic animals?
- superficial stomatitis (affects primarily the epithelium & immediate subepithelial tissues)
- deep stomatitis (affects deep tissues of oral cavity)
What are the different types of superficial stomatitis?
- vesicular stomatitis
- erosive/ulcerative stomatitis
- proliferative stomatitis
What are the different types of deep stomatitis?
- necrobacillosis
- actinobacilosis
- eosinophilic granulomas & ulcers
vesicular stomatitis
proliferative stomatitis
erosive dermatitis
Necrobacillosis
eosinophilic granulomas
actinobacilosis
what is the etiology of necrobacillosis?
Fusobacterium necrophorum
What is the etiology of eosinophilic granulomas?
potentially immune mediated
What is the etiology of actinobacilosis?
Actinobacillus lignieresii
What is an important cause of vesicular stomatitis?
Foot & Mouth Disease
What is foot & mouth disease?
- caused by FMD virus Aphthovirus (Picornaviridae)
- loves stratified squamous epithelium &, in young animals, myocardium
- highly contagious disease in Ru & Sw w/ great economic impact & low mortality
What are the clinical signs of FMD?
- vesicles, bullae, erosions, ptyalism, lameness, fever, anorexia
What lesions are caused by FMD?
- vesicular +/- erosive (due to mechanical impact) or even ulcerative (if infected w/ Fusobacterium necrophorum) stomatitis & occasionally esophagitis
- vesicular (+/- erosive/ulcerative) pododermatitis & thelitis (dermatitis of teats)
- in young animals, myocarditis that can present as occasional sudden death (up to 20%)
What is the pathogenesis of FMD?
- vesicle formation w/in stratified squamous epithelium is characteristic: hydropic & ballooning degeneration & necrosis of cells of stratum spinosum
- viral epithelial cytolysis creates microvesicles, which coalesce to produce intraepithelial fluid-filled vesicles (< 1cm) & bullae (> 1 cm)
- due to mastication & abrasion, vesicles rupture resulting in erosions; this stage of vesicular stomatitides is v difficult to differentiate from other erosive & ulcerative stomatitides (look for ulcerative collarettes)
- erosions may heal w/in a few days by proliferation of stratum basale, or progress to ulceration if abrasions & secondary bacterial infections damage the basement mb
what are differential diagnoses for FMD?
- vesicular stomatitis (Rhabdovirus)
- vesicular exanthema (calicivirus)
- swine vesicular disease (enterovirus - porcine variant of coxsackievirus B5 which causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease in humans)
- all of the 3 differential diagnoses have identical appearances & none are fatal, but sp susceptibility & epidemiology may vary
- final confirmatory dx is based on demo of the particular virus
- IMPORTANT: federal authorities must be informed about suspected outbreaks of vesicular diseases
What is important about vesicular stomatitides progression?
may present as erosive stomatitis (during certain stages) & can progress to ulceration secondary to abrasion & infection to the point that they cannot be distinguished from the erosive/ulcerative stomatitides
MACULE: colour change in the epithelium -> not palpable
- virus has gone here & infected these epithelial cells & then these viruses produce ballooning degeneration
- PAPULE
- damages the mb & water flushes in & causes cells to balloon
- as they expand, now you can palpate this
- then these cells are bursting & forming together a VESICLE filled w/ translucent fluid w/ a lot of virus in it
- usually these vesicles are v short-lived & what can happen here is when the animal is masticating they will burst
- when they burst, we call this EROSION
- called erosion b/c we still have a BASEMENT MB
- however, this is a special type of erosion, used to be a vesicle
- the fact that this is a special type of erosion can be seen by the presence of the epidermal collarette (red circle)
- so most likely it will regenerate
- next stage in diagram = REGENERATION HEALING
- or if it was infected by Fusobacterium necrophorum, it is going to be deep, ulcerative stomatitis
Ptyalism
erosive (vesicular?) stomatitis
erosive (vesicular?) thelitis
erosive (vesicular?) pododermatitis
ulcerative interdigital dermatitis (vesicular?)
- most likely not going to be just erosion b/c we have a lot of contamination here & Fusobacterium necrophorum is present all over in the enviro & will start to go through the basement mb w/ proteolytic enzymes
Vesicles of FMD
Erosions of FMD
FMD
healed epithelium in FMD
- in other erosive stomatitides, we have epithelial infection followed by epithelial death but not by ballooning degeneration
- by single cell necrosis instead & then sloughing of the dead tissue causing erosions
- so this is direct w/ no vesicular stage
- can result in death or if the animal doesnt die, it can be regenerated or become infected w/ Fusobacterium necrophorum & go into ulceration
Diseases that cause erosive/ulcerative stomatitis?
- BVD
- Bovine papular stomatitis (may have appearance of erosive or proliferative
- Malignant catarrhal fever
- Bluetongue
- Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR; virus causing systemic infection in neonatal calves - up to 1 month)
- Rinderpest
- Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR; “pseudo-rinderpest of small ruminants”)
- feline calicivirus: oral erosions; interstitial pneumonia, conjunctivitis, & occasionally arthritis
- in primates: thrush/Candidiasis
What is Bovine Viral Diarrhea complex?
- a Pestivirus
- RNA highly mutable virus
- loves epithelium & lymphoid tissue
What are the different types of BVD?
- Classical BVD (subclinical, mild)
- fetal infection
- persistently infected (PI) calves
- mucosal disease
- thrombocytopenic syndrome
- severe (fulminant) peracute BVD
What is classical BVD?
- high morbidity & no mortality
- infection of immunocompetent, seronegative animals
- subclinical to mild clinical disease manifested by fever, leukopenia, lethargy, anorexia, transient mild drop in milk production, & potentially mild upper GI erosions
- recovered animals develop longlasting immunity
What is fetal BVD infection?
- fetuses are infected transplacentally, if a classical BVD infection occurs in a pregnant immunocompetent seronegative (non-vaccinated) cow/heifer
- outcome of the infection depends on the stage of gestation
What may fetal infection w/ noncytopathic BVD result in?
- early embryonic death, mummification, or abortion
- congenital fetal anomalies (infection btwn 90-150 days of gestation): cerebellar hypoplasia, enamel hypoplasia, hypomyelination, microencephalopathy, microophthalmia, cataracts, etc.
- PI calf (infection 50-125 days of gestation): if fetus survives infection, it remains viremic for life & is also immunotolerant for homologous noncytopathic BVD viruses, due to failure of the fetal immune system to recognize the infecting viral antigen as ‘non-self’ or foreign (infection happened before immune system was developed - up to 4 months of gestation)
What are Persistently Infected calves with BVD?
- at birth, they are normal to weak & undersized
- over time, they are unusually unthrifty, smaller size, rough hair coat, & more susceptible to infectious diseases
- PI calves are constantly viremic & shed virus all the time (MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE OF INFECTION)
- almost all PI animals succumb to Mucosal Disease before 2 years of age
What is BVD Mucosal Disease?
- PI animals have increased susceptibility to other common bovine infectious diseases
- PI animals subsequently become infected w/ a closely related cytopathic BVD virus or the non-cytopathic virus that is causing persistent infection spontaneously develops recombination
- result is overwhelming infection & destruction of epithelial & lymphoid tissues that cannot be stopped by the immune system of PI calves
What are the clinical signs of BVD mucosal disease?
- morbidity in a herd varies from 2-50%
- all affected animals die (100% mortality)
- anorexia, depression, pyrexia, profuse watery diarrhea w/ staining of the perineum & tail, rumen atony, ptyalism, etc.
- oral & interdigital erosions that may become ulcerations if infected by bacteria
what is seen on necropsy with BVD Mucosal Disease?
- multifocal erosions (or ulcers if infected w/ bacteria) in the tongue, gingiva, palate, esophagus, rumen, omasum, abomasum, & coronary bands of the hooves
- fibrinonecrotic ulceration of the intestinal mucosa over Peyer’s patches & lymphoid tissue & some cases have fibrinonecrotic colitis
- generalized lymphoid necrosis/apoptosis & depletion
what is BVD thrombocytopenic syndrome?
- animal affected by widespread hemorrhage (epistaxis, hyphema, mucosal & serosal hemorrhages) due to infection & loss of megakaryocytes that results in thrombocytopenia
What is severe (fulminant) peracute BVD?
- BVD disease has become more complicated since 1990
- highly virulent strains of BVD virus can cause high morbidity & HIGH MORTALITY (unlike classical BVD) w/ identical lesions to those described in Mucosal Disease, but in this case, in addn to PI calves, immunocompetent (non-vaccinated) animals are also affected
How do you differentiate btwn Mucosal Disease affecting PI animals & severe peracute BVD affecting immunocompetent ones?
- based on hx, epidemiological observations, & molecular characterization of BVD virus
How do you diagnose Severe Peracute BVD?
- depends on the form of the disease
- gross & histopathology
- immunohistochemistry of skin biopsies (large amounts of viral load) in PI animals - this test is not available currently due to limited availability of antibodies
- demonstration & characterization of the virus (virus isolation, PCR, etc.)
What is Rinderpest?
- caused by morbillivirus in Ru & Sw in Asia & Africa
- was eradicated in 2011
- highly contagious w/ high mortality in naive populations
What are the major lesions of rinderpest?
- erosive/ulcerative stomatitis, esophagitis, & abomasitis; hemorrhagic colitis (w/ “zebra stripes”); necrosis of lymphoid tissue (Peyer’s patches); fibrinopurulent erosive rhinitis (may extend to upper trachea); erosive vulvovaginitis;
- characteristic histopathology: intranuclear & intracytoplasmic inclusions (especially in tonsils) & multinucleated syncytial
How is Rinderpest related to BVD?
- rinderpest is eradicated
- in cattle, sheep, goats, & wild Ru, gross GIT lesions are similar as in Mucosal Disease; therefore, it cannot be distinguished from BVD based on gross exam, if upper respiratory tract & other organs are not affected
- histologically, Rinderpest is characterized by inclusion bodies & syncytial cells, neither of which is present in BVD
- epidemiology is also different
What is malignant catarrhal fever?
- caused by gamma- herpesvirus
- occurs in a variety of Bovidae (including bison) & Cervidae families
- MCFV loves epithelium, arterioles, & lymphoid tissue resulting in lymphoproliferation, vasculitis, & erosive-ulcerative mucosal & cutaneous lesions
What causes MCF in Canada & the USA?
- MCF of cattle, bison, & deer is caused by cross-infection w/ Ovine Herpesvirus 2 or Caprine Herpesvirus 2
- disease is not contagious among cattle & bison by direct contact
- this is usually a sporadic disease (w/ only occasional outbreaks, esp. in bison), but mortality in affected animals is v high
Which organ systems are affected by MCF?
- alimentary system, eyes, skin, respiratory system, urogenital system, lymphoid tissue, brain & meninges can be affected
How does MCF affect the alimentary system?
- oral ulcerations are present in most cases
- sometimes, ulcers in esophagus, forestomachs, & abomasum
- occasionally, typhlocolitis (especially in deer)