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Unit 4- Avian Flashcards

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Lead Toxicosis

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Ingestion of lead, low pH from grains increases availability and toxicity, waterfowl, raptors, and loon

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Bird Lead Susceptibility

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Lead stays in gizzard and is ground down over time

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Lead Dynamics

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Ingested, attaches to albumin and RBC in blood, ubiquitous with long term deposition, neurotropism, excreted in bile, urine, milk, and skin

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Lead Pathogenicity

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Inhibits hemoglobin synthesis enzymes, inhibits nucleotidase weakening RBC, disrupts neuron and astrocyte metabolism, disrupts vascular endothelium metabolism

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Lead Toxicosis Clinical Signs

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Reluctance to fly, weakness, ataxia, flaccid neck in geese, roof shape wings, bile stained feathers around cloaca, emaciation, facial edema, impacted food in GI, lead in gizzard, reticular pattern in kidneys

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Lead Toxicosis Histopathology

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Fibrinoid necrosis of vessels, hemorrhage, and secondary ischemia or hemorrhage, intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies, acute tubuloepithelial degeneration and necrosis in kidneys or nephropathy and fibrosis if chronic

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Lead Toxicosis Diagnosis

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Antemortem lead levels in blood, postmortem lead levels in liver, kidney and bone, species specific values

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Gout

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Renal gout, visceral gout, or articular gout, urate crystals in renal tubules or serosal and synovial surfaces

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Gout Causes

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Impaired excretion of uric acid by kidneys due to dehydration, renal disease, post renal obstruction, nephrotoxins, nephropathogenic viruses, high protein overproduction of uric acid, and defects in uric acid metabolic enzymes

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Acute Gout

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Renal and visceral, little to no inflammation

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Chronic Gout

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Articular with granulomatous inflammation

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Gout Pathogenesis

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Hyperuricemia, monosodium urate tophi precipitation on renal tubules and visceral and synovial surfaces, attempted phagocytosis by macrophages, renal tubular epithelial necrosis, inflammation, and fibrosis

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Gout Clinical Signs

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Little to no clinical signs for acute, difficulty flying and perching with inflamed feet for articular

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Renal Gout Gross Findings

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Enlarged kidneys with patchy/streaky appearance, ureters dilated and filled with urate calculi

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Visceral Gout Gross Findings

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Chalky patches on serous membrane of pericardium and hepatic capsule

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Articular Gout Gross Findings

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Swollen joints and tendon sheaths with chalky deposits, rupture of synovial membrane and skin

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Tophi

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Clusters of needle shaped birefringent crystals, pathognomonic of gout, associated with tissue necrosis and inflammation in acute form, surrounded by heterophilic and granulomatous inflammation in chronic

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Gout Diagnosis

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Chalky matertial and tophi, tophi can be stained for calcium with GMS and Von Kossa, but are water soluble

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Fowl Diphtheria

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Infectious laryngotracheitis, gallid herpesvirus type 1, alphaherpes, domestic chickens most common, peasants, peafowl, and turkeys

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Infectious Laryngotracheitis Pathogenesis

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Highly contagious, aerosols, syncitial cell formation, necrosis of tracheal mucosa, cellular immune response, latent carriers in trigeminal nerve ganglion

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Epizootic Infectious Laryngotracheitis

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Highly pathogenic form

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Endemic Infectious Laryngotracheitis

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Low pathogenic form

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Infectious Laryngotracheitis Clinical Signs

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High morbitidy moderate mortality, coughing, sneezing, head shaking, gasping for air, expectoration of bloody mucus

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Infectious Laryngotracheitis Gross Findings

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Tracheal mucosal necrosis and hemorrhage, occlusive pseudomembranes filling tracheal lumen, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, seromucous exudate

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Infectious Laryngotracheitis Histopathology

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Tracheal mucosal necrosis, fibrinonecrotic psuedomembrane, syncitial cell formation, intranuclear inclusion bodies, mucosal ulceration, inflammation, squamous metaplasia

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Infectious Laryngotracheitis Diagnosis

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PCR, IFA, IHC, EM, isolation, serology not helpful because can’t distinguish between infection and vaccine Ab

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Infectious Laryngotracheitis Control

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Vaccine, hygiene

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Marek’s Disease

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Gallid herpesvirus 2, dsDNA, chickens most affected

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Marek’s Disease Pathogenesis

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Highly infectious, chicks susceptible, feather dust and dander, lymphoproliferative

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Marek’s Disease Serotypes

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1 oncogenic, 2 common in chicken, 3 in turkey

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Marek’s Disease Development

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Phase 1 cell to cell infection after inhalation, viremia, immune cell infection, phase 2 latency in t cells, phase 3 replication in feather follicle epithelium, shedding in dander, spread to visceral epithelium and nervous system, phase 1 proliferative lymphoma

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Classic Marek’s Disease

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Neurolymphomatosis, paralysis, torticollis when cervical nerves are infected, dilatation of crop and respiratory signs

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Visceral Marek’s Disease

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Acute, lymphomatous tumors in viscera and skin

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Ocular Lymphomatosis

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Leukocyte infiltration of iris and loss of pigmentation causing grey eye

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Cutaneous Marek’s Disease

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Enlarged feather follicles, alabama redleg from erythematous legs

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Classic Marek’s Disease Histopathology

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Proliferative or inflammatory with demyelination causing paralysis in PNS, inflammatory with perivascular cuffing, microgliosis, and endotheliosis in CNS

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Visceral Marek’s Disease Histopathology

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Lymphoid tumors with mixture of lymphocytes

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Cutaneous Marek’s Disease Histopathology

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Dermatitis and lymphomatous proliferation around feather follicles and blood vessels, intranuclear inclusion bodies around feather follicle epithelium

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Marek’s Disease Diagnosis

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Isolation, IFA, neutralization, PCR, IHC

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Newcastle Disease

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Avian paramyxovirus, ssRNA, reportable to OIE, does not cause paramyxovirus infection, chickens and varying strains and pathogenicity

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Newcastle Transmission

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Ingestion or inhalation of infected secretions, fomites from feces, velogenic strain is vertically transmitted and kills chicks

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Newcastle Disease Pathogenesis

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Replicates in mucosa of upper respiratory and intestine, viremia by binding to RBC, infects spleen and bone marrow, spreads to CNS and other organs

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Velogenic Strains

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Can be viscerotrophic or neurotrophic

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Viscerotrophic Velogenic Newcastle Disease

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Lethal to all ages, green diarrhea, weakness, anorexia, prostration, tremor

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Neurotrophic Velogenic Newcastle Disease

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More lethal in chicks, decrease in egg production, respiratory signs, nervous signs, weakness, tremor, torticollis, paralysis

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Newcastle Gross Lesions

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Necrotizing gastroenteritis and hemorrhage in VVND, or pneumonia and encephalitis in NVND

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Newcastle Diagnosis

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OIE does isolation and qPCR, hemagglutination in unvaccinated flocks, immunochromatographic strips

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Newcastle Control

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Live attenuated vaccines, hygiene

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Newcastle Zoonosis

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Rare, self limiting conjunctivitis, fever and headache

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Bornavirus Disease

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Avian bornavirus,, ssRNA, Macaw wasting disease, Psittacine Proventricular dilatation, proventricular dilation, neuropathic gastric dilatation, progressive neurologic disease of psittacines and geese

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Bornavirus Pathogenesis

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Autonomic nerves of upper and middle GI as well as CNS, inoculation or respiration and migration to nervous ganglia, retrograde axonal, psittacine carriers common

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Bornavirus Clinical Signs

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weight loss, crop stasis, proventricular dilatation, regurgitation, maldigestion, starvation, CNS signs, death

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Bornavirus Gross Findings

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Emaciation, flaccidity and dilation of GI, undigested seed in feces, no GI lesions if exclusively CNS, cardiomegaly, hydropericardium

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Bornavirus Histopathology

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Infiltrates in myenteric plexus, ganglia, peripheral nerves, brain, spinal cord, heart, adrenals, demyelination and perivascular cuffing in CNS

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Bornavirus Diagnosis

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Plucked feathers, IHC

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Salmonellosis

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Salmonella enterica, typhimurium, songbirds and garden birds, fecal oral cycle from bird feeders, vertical transmission of chickens

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Songbird Salmonellosis Clinical Signs

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Abnormally tame, weak, stay on feeders

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Songbird Salmonellosis Gross Findings

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Esophagitis, fibronecrotizing multifocal, necrosis, fibrinonecrotic pseudomembrane, gram - rods, emaciation, arthritis

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Songbird Salmonellosis Diagnosis

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Crop swap and liver tissue culture

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Salmonellosis Control

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Bring down feeders to reduce contact and crowding

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Salmonellosis Zoonosis

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Humans, cats

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Mycoplasmosis

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Finch strain, chronic respiratory disease, infectious sinusitis, house finch conjunctivitis, spread from west to east

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Mycoplasmosis Pathogenesis

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Direct contact transmission, targets ocular and nasal mucosa, adhesion to epithelium, cellular damage, inflammation, carriers

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Mycoplasmosis Clinical Signs

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Swollen eyelids, emaciation, predation

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Mycoplasmosis Diagnosis

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PCR, difficult to culture

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Trichomoniasis

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Wild birds, trophozoite protozoa, trichomonosis, canker in dove and pigeon, frounce in raptos

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Trichomoniasis Pathogenesis

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Crop milk, feeders, and regurgitated material transmission, tropism to oral cavity, esophagus, and cranial bones, binary fission replication, damage to mucosa and bones

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Trichomoniasis Clinical Signs

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Weakness, fluff, lack of predator response, regurgitation, crust around beak, emaciation

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Trichominiasis Gross Findings

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Caseous canker material in lumen of esophagus, thickened esophageal wall

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