The Cats Meow
What follow up test is recommended if a cat tests FIV+ initially?
A western blot test.
A golden retriever presents because his nose has become pale pink when it used to be dark brown. He is otherwise systemically healthy, and this is the first winter that the owner has had the dog. You tell the owner you suspect this diagnosis and recommend this treatment.
What is seasonal nasal hypopigmentation and benign neglect?
In the horse, laryngoplasty, or tie-back surgery, is a common treatment for recurrent neuropathy of this nerve.
What is the left recurrent laryngeal nerve?
Estimated up to 90% of pet iguanas harbor his zoonotic pathogen.
What is intestinal Salmonella?
This is the agent that causes white spot disease in fish.
What are the two most common treatments for it?
What is ichthyophthirius multifiliis ("ich")?
What are formalin and hypersalinity?
A liver disease that often arises secondary to anorexia, requiring aggressive nutritional support for treatment, usually via a feeding tube.
What is Hepatic Lipidosis?
Identify the features of tetralogy of fallot.
What are pulmonic stenosis, ventricular septal defect, right ventricular hypertrophy, and dextropositioned aorta?
This intracellular bacteria causes thickening of the intestinal mucosa and diarrhea in grower/finisher pigs.
What is lawsonia intracellularis? Aka Porcine Proliferative Enteritis
An adult ferret presenting for lethargy and intermittent dragging of the hindlimbs is suspicious for this type of tumor.
What is Insulinoma?
There is an outbreak of disease on a pig farm. Necropsy of affected pigs reveals petechia and large, hemorrhagic lymph nodes. Your differentials include these two reportable diseases.
What are classical swine fever (hog cholera) and african swine fever?
What is one finding that may indicate FIP?
elevations in Total Protein and Globulins
Can do an albumin to globulin ratio
A boxer presents for several episodes of syncope. You suspect this condition and initiate this diagnostic to confirm.
What is arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and 24 hour holter monitor?
This is the most distal nerve block you could use to reduce lameness from OA of the pastern joint.
What is the abaxial sesamoid block?
Metabolic Bone Disease is a common condition in pet iguanas with diets deficient in vitamin D3 and these two minerals.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
Heartworm-positive dogs are treated with melarsomine. This bacteria found in heartworm also warrants treatment with doxycycline.
What is Wohlbachia?
A cat comes into the clinic with upper respiratory signs, altered mentation, and a "Roman Nose" facial swelling. What is this agent, and how would you treat it?
What is Cryptococcosis and fluconazole?
you can also treat with Amphotericin B + 5-flucytosine but this is $$$ and requires hospitalization
Your canine patient presents for his first veterinary wellness visit. On physical exam you identify melanosis of the cornea, a left sided systolic murmur, and laxity of the coxofemoral joints bilaterally. You perform radiographs and identify hip dysplasia. You refer him to a cardiologist, where an echocardiogram reveals mitral valve dysplasia. The dog is most likely this breed.
What is a german shepherd?
Enzootic hematuria and bone marrow suppression are two of the symptoms bovine may show after eating this toxic plant, commonly found in California.
What is bracken fern?
This non-burrowing ear mite causes otitis with pruritus and thick brown crusts on the pinnae of rabbits.
What is Psoroptes cuniculi?
These are the most common locations on the limbs where osteosarcoma is found in dogs.
What is away from the elbows and towards the knees?
(distal radius, proximal humerus, distal femur, proximal tibia)
This parasite has a pre patent period of 3-10 days when tissue cysts are ingested. It can be 20-40 days when the oocysts are ingested. Those cysts can be transmitted by ingesting infected prey or in raw meat.
What is Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)
A known side effect of this antibiotic class in dogs is keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS)
What are sulfa drugs?
You are called to evaluate a pig herd affected by diamond-shaped skin lesions. You treat affected pigs with this antibiotic.
BONUS: what is the disease?
What is penicillin?
BONUS: erysipelas
Newcastle Disease is one of the most important avian diseases worldwide. Signs include muscle tremors, CNS signs, paralysis, coughing, decreased egg production, and production of thin-shelled eggs.
What is the virus that causes this?
What is Avian Paramyxovirus 1?
There is an outbreak of disease on a pig farm. Necropsy of affected pigs reveals petechia and large, hemorrhagic lymph nodes. Your differentials include these two reportable diseases.
What are classical swine fever (hog cholera) and african swine fever?