STREPTOCOCCUS

Question 1

STREOPTOCOCCUS CAUSES WHAT THREE MAIN THINGS?

Answer 1

1. SEPTICEMIA
2. STRANGLES
3. MASTITIS

Question 2

STREPTOCOCCUS CAUSES THREE TYPES OF HEMOLYSIS. WHAT ARE THEY?

Answer 2

BETA HEMOLYTIC- COMPLETE HEMOLYSIS
ALPHA HEMOLYTIC- PARTIAL HEMOLYSIS
GAMMA HEMOLYTIC- NO HEMOLYSIS

Question 3

STREPTOCOCCUS GENERAL FACTS

Answer 3

GRAM POSITIVE COCCI CHAINS 
CATALASE NEGATIVE 
FACULTATIVE ANAEROBE 
COMMENSAL IN MUCOUS MEMBRANES 
ZOONOTIC 
PRIMARY OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN 
LOW ENVT RESISTANCE

Question 4

STREPTOCOCCUS VIRULENCE FACTORS THAT FUNCTION IN INVASION

Answer 4

STREPTOKINASE

HYALURONIDASE

Question 5

STREPTOCOCCUS VIRULENCE FACTOR THAT FUNCTIONS IN ADHESION

Answer 5

PROTEIN F

Question 6

STREPTOCOCCUS VIRULENCE FACTORS THAT FUNCTION IN EVASION

Answer 6

M PROTEIN
HYALURONAN
HEMOLYSIN/STREPTOLYSIN

Question 7

STREPTOCOCCUS TOXINS

Answer 7

STREPTOCOCCUS EXOTOXINS

LIPOTEICHOIC ACID

Question 8

STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSP EQUI CAUSES

Answer 8

STRANGLES AKA EQUINE DISTEMPER

Question 9

WHAT IS STRANGLES?

Answer 9

UPPER RESPIRATORY INFECTION WITH ABSCESSATION OF SUBMANDIBULAR AND RETROPHARYNGEAL LYMPH NODES

SWELLING OF THE LYMPH NODES LEADS TO AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION

Question 10

WHAT AGES OF HORSE DOES STRANGLES INFECT ?

Answer 10

ALL AGES ARE SUSCEPTIBLE BUT YEARLINGS AND WEANED FOALS ESPECIALLY, <4MOS

Question 11

TRANSMISSION OF STRANGLES

Answer 11

DIRECT- EXUDATES FROM UPPER RESP, DISCHARGING ABSCESSES FROM CARRIER OR INFECTED ANIMAL

INDIRECT- FROM CONTAMINATED BUCKETS/WATER TROUGHS, FEED, STABLES, GRASS, FLIES

Question 12

STRANGLES COMPLICATION

Answer 12

1. GUTTURAL POUCH EMPYEMA
2. BASTARD STRANGLES
3. PURPURA HEMORRHAGICA

Question 13

DIAGNOSIS OF STRANGLES

Answer 13

1. CLINICAL SYMPTOMS
2. CULTURE FROM ABCESS, NASAL SWAB, LAVAGE FLUID
3. ELISA
4. PCR FOR M PROTEIN

Question 14

POTENTIAL CARRIERS OF STRANGLES

Answer 14

NEWLY ACQUIRED HORSES
NON AFFECTED IN CONTACT HORSES
AFFECTED IN CONTACT HORSES

Question 15

WHEN CAN A STRANGLES SUSPECTED HORSE BE RELEASED FROM QUARANTINE?

Answer 15

AFTER THREE NEGATIVE CULTURES

Question 16

STRANGLES IS A REPORTABLE DISEASE T/F

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS IN PIGS (4 CONDITIONS)

Answer 17

1. MENINGITIS
2. ARTHRITIS
3. SEPTICEMIA
4. BRONCHOPNEUMONIA

Question 18

STEPTOCOCCUS SUIS IS ZOONOTIC

Answer 18

TRUE MOTHER TRUCKER

Question 19

TREATMENT OF STREP SUIS

Answer 19

PENICILLIN/AMPICILLIN

Question 20

DIAGNOSTICS FOR STREP SUIS SHOULD INCLUDE

Answer 20

SEROTYPING

Question 21

PREDISPOSING FACTORS FOR STREP SUIS

Answer 21

CHANGE IN VENTILATION 
CHANGE IN TEMP 
OVERCROWDING 
STRESS 
DECREASED IMMUNE SYSTEM

Question 22

PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF STREP SUIS

Answer 22

TREAT SOWS 1 WEEK PRIOR TO FARROWING

TREAT PIGLETS WITHIN 2 WEEKS OF LIFE

Question 23

STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE

Answer 23

CHRONIC CONTAGIOUS MASTITIS

COLONIZES MILK DUCTS

Question 24

STREP DYSGALACTIAE

Answer 24

ACUTE ENVIRONMENTAL MASTITIS

COLONIZES BUCCAL CAVITY AND GENITALIA

Question 25

STREP UBERIS

Answer 25

ENVIRONMENTAL SUBLCLINICAL MASTITIS

COLONIZES SKIN, TONSILS, VAGINAL MUCOSA

Question 26

STREP EQUI SUBSP ZOOEPIDEMICUS

Answer 26

ZOONOTIC
PYOGENIC- UPPER RESP INF, PNEUMONIA, MASTITIS, FOAL SEPTICEMIA
COLONIZE MUCOUS MEMBRANES

Question 27

STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS IS COMMENSAL IN WHAT

Answer 27

TONSILS

Question 28

STREPTOCOCCUS CANIS CAUSES ______ IN _______. IT IS COMMENSAL IN __________

Answer 28

TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME AND NECROTIZING FASCIITIS
PUPPIES AND KITTENS
SKIN AND MUCOUS MEMBRANES

Question 29

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES

Answer 29

MILD SKIN DISEASE (IMPETIGO) TO LIFE THREATENING SYSTEMIC INFECTION

FLESH EATING BACTERIUM

Question 30

ENTEROCOCCUS KEY CHARACTERISTICS

Answer 30

GRAM + DIPLOCOCCI
CATALASE - 
COMMENSAL OF THE GI 
OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN 
NATURAL AND ACQUIRED RESISTANCE

Question 31

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIALIS/ FAECIUM

Answer 31

1. WOUND INFECTIONS
2. MASTITIS
3. UTI AND EAR INFECTION IN DOGS
4. NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION