Cat
This flea adulticide is toxic in cats. Do not use.
Aggressive IV fluids, insulin, and bicarbonate therapy are key components to treatment of this disease state.
What is DKA?
This is the most common clinical sign of EIPH.
What is epistaxis?
Bovine ketosis most commonly presents during this life event.
What is lactation?
This species is susceptible to infectious coryza.
What are chickens? (NOT turkeys)
These are the two most common clinical signs of psittacine beak and feather disease.
What are feather loss and beak defects?
These diseases are covered by the FVRCP vaccine.
What are feline viral rhinitis (herpesvirus-1), calicivirus, and panleukopenia?
You are performing a gastric decompression and rotation surgery to correct a GDV. When you open the abdomen, you expect to see this structure covering the stomach.
What is the omentum?
This is the normal clotting time of the horse.
What is 60-90 seconds?
You are called to evaluate a cow that died on a farm. When you arrive, you notice the cow is bloated, is not in rigor mortis, and has dark red blood coming from the nares. You get the heck out of there because this is what that cow has.
What is anthrax?
Marek's disease virus is produced in this tissue, allowing it to be spread via direct or indirect contact between birds.
What is the feather follicle epithelium?
These biological wastes are removed by bacteria in a biological filter in an aquatic setup.
What are ammonia and nitrite?
This drug is used to correct hypocalcemia in cats with urethral obstruction.
What is IV calcium gluconate?
You are performing a physical exam on a small breed dog, and find that palpation of the neck induces a honking cough. This is your top differential for this finding.
The EHV-1 vaccine, which prevents placentitis leading to abortion, is given at these months of gestation.
What are months 5, 7, and 9?
This is a peracute, often fatal attack of BVD.
What is mucosal disease?
This is the virus that causes infectious laryngotracheitis.
This is the agent that causes white spot disease in fish.
What is ichthyophthirius multifiliis ("ich")?
Explain the "3,2,1 rule" of injection site sarcomas.
Biopsy is indicated if a vaccination site lump fits any of these criteria:
continues to grow after 1 month post vax
larger than 2 cm
still present after 3 months
This is the most reliable radiographic sign of a cranial cruciate tear.
What is joint effusion?
A young thoroughbred horse with symmetric ataxia and paresis and a wide-base stance is most likely affected by this disease.
BONUS: what are two other names for this disease?
What is cervical vertebral malformation?
BONUS: wobblers, cervical stenotic myelopathy
This is the most common type of mite that affects camelids.
What is chorioptes?
This is the difference between mycoplasma prevention in chickens versus turkeys.
What is vaccination of chickens but NOT turkeys because it will kill them?
This obligate intracellular organism causes nasal and ocular discharge and infraorbital swelling in psittacines. (hint: zoonotic!)
What is chlamydia?
This test involves dropping a sample of peritoneal effusion into distilled water and acetic acid to differentiate transudate vs exudate.
BONUS: For which disease is this diagnostic commonly used?
What is the Rivalta test?
BONUS: FIP
These are four clinical signs of a dog with heartworm disease.
What are exercise intolerance, cough, dyspnea, and ascites?
Name the top 8 causes for acute equine colic.
What are small intestinal disease, large intestinal torsion, colonic impaction, gas colic, colon displacement, enterolith/sand, gastric ulcers, and parasite colic?
These are all 9 forms of clostridial disease in ruminants.
What are blackleg (chauvoei), malignant edema (novyi A), redwater disease (haemolyticum), black disease (novyi B), tetanus (tetani), botulism (botulinum), enterotoxemia (perfringens B,C, and E), overeating disease (perfringens D), and perfringens A?
You're called out to a chicken farm and find several birds with scabs on their skin, comb, and wattles, and yellow plaques on their mucous membranes. This is your top differential.
What is fowl pox?
This virus causes mucopurulent ocular/nasal discharge and hyperkeratotic footpads in ferrets.
What is canine distemper virus?