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19 Cards in this Set
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uroliths |
urinary stones |
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occurs mainly in |
feeder steers or lambs on high grain ration - narrowed urethra in castrated animals |
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waterbelly - obstruction occurs at |
sigmoid flexure |
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clinical signs |
kicking at belly treading with hind feet swishing tail hematuria precipitate on hair twitiching of penis straining to urinate |
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treatment |
penile urethrostomy - drain urine from abdomen if bladder ruptures too |
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leptospirosis acquired |
by contact of urine with skin or MM - wildlife and rodents can be carriers - zoonotic |
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c/s |
- can be severe, mild, or unnoticeable - fever jaundice bloody urine and anemia in calves - cows mastitis , abortions , stillbirths , lowered milk production |
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treatment of lepto |
- rodent control - fence off contaminated water - vaccinate - tetracyclines |
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EBL |
enzootic bovine leukosis bovine viral leukosis |
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EBL caused by |
retrovirus
- mainly dairy cows 2-6 years old - some cows will then develop lymphosarcomas on internal organs |
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transmitted by |
- insect bites - surgical needles and instruments - colostrum |
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SBL |
sporadic bovine leukosis
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3 forms of SBL |
juvenile - young calves, superficial LN enlargement thymic - growing cattle, fluid accumulation under skin of dewlap and chest skin - tumors on neck and withers , young cattle under 30 months of age |
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caseous lymphadenitis |
sheep and goats - bacteria: Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis - can survive in macrophages - results in formation of granulomas |
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granuloma |
tumor like mass or nodule of granulation tissue - consists of collection of macrophages and lymphocytes - due to chronic inflammation associated with infection or invasion of FB |
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transmission |
direct contact - shears, feeders, soil pus is highly contagious - never lance in coral or barn |
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diagnosis |
culture and gram positive rods - cull - vaccinate - good hygiene |
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copper toxicity |
- sheep -accumulates in the liver |
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clinical signs |
- destruction of RBC's - anemia - hemoglobinuria - icterus - depression - death PM findings - large, orange, friable liver |
