Unit 4- Practical Diagnostics Flashcards

1
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Abscess Collection

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Scrape wall with pus

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Exudate Collection

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Aseptically with sterile syringe

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3
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Swab Collection

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Use culturette transport system

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4
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Sample Preservation

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Must be kept cold, feces should be in transport media at room temp, aseptic technique essential, bone marrow or rib from animals that have been dead for a long time

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5
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Anaerobic Culture

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Anaerobic samples with normal flora cannot be cultured because they are contaminated with anaerobic normal flora

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6
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Anaerobic Shipment

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Anaerobic transport system if not reaching lab within 30 min, large tissue will maintain anaerobic environment but must be refridgerated

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7
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Mastitis Procedures

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Culture first few mLs of milk expressed and collect sample from within udder, collect into sterile narrow-necked bottles

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UTI Procedures

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Specimens must be refrigerated and cultured within 6 hours, innoculate to blood or MacConkey with sterile loop, most commonly enterics

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9
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Abortion Procedures

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Must be comprehensive for all bacteria and fungi, maternal and fetal samples, fresh and formalin-fixed for histology

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Fetus Samples

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Placenta and cotyledons, uterine discharge, fetal stomach contents, fetal lung, liver, kidney, and spleen

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Leptospirosis Abortion Samples

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Midstream urine sample must be centrifuged and darkfield microscopied immediately, clotted blood samples at the time of abortion and 2 weeks later

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12
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Infertility Specimens

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Uterine discharge, vaginal mucus, preputial washings, semen, urine

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Cattle Infertility Samples

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Should include Campylobacter fetus and opportunistic aerobes, culture within 4-6 hours, special transport medium for C. fetus

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14
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Mare Infertility Samples

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Coliforms and other opportunistic aerobes

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15
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Blood Cultures

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Skin shaved and aseptically prepped, 3 blood samples taken 1 hour apart

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16
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Johne’s Samples

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Scraping of rectal mucosa in live animal or ileocecal valve in dead animal, can be examined by acid fast stain or PCR

17
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Diarrhea Samples

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Campylobacter, Salmonella, and Yersinia, possible toxins in foods, E coli in neonates, fecal samples in live animal or mesenteric lymph nodes, liver, and intestinal contents in dead

18
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Swine Intestinal Disease Samples

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Recently dead or killed pig, hemorrhagic intestine, or mucosal scrapings

19
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Swine Dysentery Samples

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Brachyspira diagnosed by microscopy, feces from live animal or intestine and contents from dead

20
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Proliferative Enteropathy Samples

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Lawsonia intracellularis, cannot be cultured, diagnose by PCR of feces or histopathology

21
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Tuberculosis Samples

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Acid fast staining of smears, lesions sampled

22
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Mycoplasma Samples

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Cultivate on mycoplasma media in CO2, differentiate with antisera

23
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Chlamydia Samples

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Not culturable on culture media, submit to virology lab for culture on tissue culture, serology or ELISA

24
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Anthrax Samples

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State or federal reference lab

25
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Systemic Fungal Infection Samples

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Lesions for culture and histopathology

26
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Dermatophyte Infection Samples

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Plucked hairs, skin scrapings, and scalpel in paper envelope, innoculated onto dermatophyte test medium, Wood’s lamp

27
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Streptothricosis or Dermatophiliasis Samples

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Scabs with hairs stained by methylene blue

28
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique

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Diagnose malignant edema and blackleg from rib bone marrow or muscle, Chlamydia, Leptospira, and Brucella from direct tissue

29
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Latex Agglutination

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Detect antigen or antibody, rapid results

30
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PCR

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Amplifies DNA, real time PCR must be used for diagnosis with the cycle threshold for diagnosis

31
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Gram + Cocci

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Staphylococcus and Streptococcus

32
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Gram - Cocci

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Erysipelothrix, Listeria, Cornyebacterium, Trueperella pyogenes

33
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Gram - Lactose Fermenters

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E. coli, Klebsiella, Enterobacter

34
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Gram- Glucose Fermenters

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Proteus, Salmonella, Citrobacter

35
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Oxidase Fermentors

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Pasteruella, Actinobacillus, Pasteurella multilocida, Manheimmia haemolytica, Hemophilus

36
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Gram- GLucose Oxidizers

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Psuedomonas aeruginosa