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What causes enzootic ataxia in sheep?
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Dietary copper deficiency
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What disease has clinical signs that include late term abortions, stillbirths, weak lambs, and a necrotic placenta with both the cotyledons and the intercotyledonary spaces affected?
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enzootic abortion of ewes
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Abortion due to _________ result in lambs with goiters and sometimes no wool.
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Iodine deficiency
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What human disease is caused by Brucella meletensis from small ruminants?
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Malta fever
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Is the rinderpest vaccine effective against Pete des Petits Ruminant? Should it be used?
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It is effective, however, it should not be used as it could mask the reemergence of rinderpest
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A pregnant ewe presents with partial passage of a placenta but no lambs have been seen. On vaginal exam the cervix is dilated approximately 2 cm. Which one of the following choices is the most likely diagnosis?
a) ring womb b) torsion of the uterus c) dystocia d) premature parturition e) uterine inertia |
Ring womb
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Arcanobacter and beta hemolytic Streptococcus species are the most common bacterial isolates from sheep and goats with which condition?
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endocarditis
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What is the most common antibiotic used to treat individual small ruminants with systemic pasteurellosis?
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oxytetracycline
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