Give me the drugs!
You enter a barn
Gross! Pathology
Help, Doc!
Miscellaneous
100
You just diagnosed brachyspira hyodysenteriae in a grower barn. After telling the producer to clean the heck out of that barn, what will you medicate the pigs with?
What is tiamulin, or lincomycin, salinomycin
100
You're called out to a barn because his pigs are taking longer to get to market.
You enter the barn and see 10 week old grower pigs that are dull, thin, and there is diarrhea throughout the pen. The producer says they have had diarrhea for a few weeks now and this is the age of pigs that typically get it in his barn.
What is your top differential diagnoses?
What is Ileitis (caused by Lawsonia intracellularis)
100
What is this section of the gut called and what is the most likely disease?
What is Spiral Colon and C. Difficile (mesocolonic edema of the spiral colon)
100
Help, Doc! I just shipped pigs and had a bunch of liver condemns. The plant sent me this photo, what the heck is going on?
What is Milk Spot Liver, Ascaris Suum (roundworm)
100
What are three of several feeder pig bacterial septicemia causes commonly referred to as 'Suis-cide' pathogens?
What is
1. Streptococcus suis
2. Actinobacillus suis
3. Glasserella (Hemophilus0 parasuis (Glasserella)
200
You just diagnosed greasy pig disease in a barn. What antibiotic are you going to use
What is Topical tetracycline, TMS or Ceftiofur (or spray with prevail)
200
You enter a barn a see yellowy and squirty diarrhea poos that do not have blood in them. Two pigs have rectal strictures.
What is your top differential?
Salmonella typhimurium (pathology: enterotyphlocolitis with fibrinonecrotic debris)
200
What is the abnormality in this photo and what are two potential risk factors?
What is gastric ulcer of the pars esophagea in the stomach
Risk factors:
1. Fine dietary particle sizes
2. Interrupted feed intake
3. Corn, wheat >>oats, barley
4. Hammer mill grinding, pelleted diets
200
Help, Doc! I've got some lame pigs that look like this (below), what is this?
Erysipelas (Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae)
200
There's an outdoor herd of wild boars. The producer is complaining about abortion storms, infertility, and stillbirths. When you get to the farm, you notice that repro tracts from both the males and females have granulomatous inflammation. What is your top differential?
What is Brucellosis (Brucella suis)?
300
Doc, Give me the drugs! What should I treat this strange look pig with?
What is Penicillin
300
You enter a barn and every single pig looks to be sleeping but is actually dead, what is the most likely cause?
Ventilation failure! Accumulation of NH3 and H2S and heat
300
You've got some coughing pigs with lungs like this, what is your top differential?
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
300
Help, Doc! What is causing all of abortions in my gilts?
What is Parvovirus (abortion storms in unvaccinated herds)
300
What sound does a pig make?
What is OINK
400
Doc, Give me the drugs! I've got lame pigs due to Mycoplasma hyosynoviae! What drug do I use?
Lincomycin individually, Aivlosin in the water
400
You enter a barn and find that the larger piglets are pale in color. What would you recommend to the producer?
What is A second iron shot
400
What is the name of this pathology and what is one of the two possible causative agents?
What is Atrophic Rhinitis
Causative agents:
1. Toxigenic Pasteurella multocida
2. Bordatella bronchiseptica
400
Help, Doc! My pigs have some weird blisters on their feet and nose. What can I do?
What is.... lock down the barn and treat as a new foreign animal disease... Vesicular diseases are bad! Need to rule out common Seneca Valley Virus first with CFIA vs FMDV
400
What are the two types of E. Coli that cause Edema disease in pigs?
What is STEC (shiga toxin) and VTEC (verotoxins)
500
Give me the drugs, Doc! My pigs have greasy pig disease, what can I use?
Topical tetracycline spray, Prevail @ 1:100 , Virkon spray 1%
Parenteral: TMS, Ceftiofur, pending Sensitivity
500
You enter a barn after the producer complaining that many of his pigs have been dying recently. You notice that the feed is really fine and somewhat dusty. What could be a reason for the deaths?
Gastric Ulcers from too fine of dietary particle size
500
Pigs in this barn have yellowy diarrhea. Some pigs have rectal strictures. Below are your post mortem findings. What is your top differential?
What is Salmonella typhimurium
500
Help Doc, You've told me my piglets have Isospora suis...or Coccidiosis. what is one med I can use to treat?
What is:
Toltazuril- Forceris= Iron and Toltazuril
Amprolium
Sulfa
500
How are you going to manage/treat mycoplasma hyopneumoniae?
What is...
Can use medication-macrolides and Vaccination strategies to control the disease but can eliminate the pathogen with depopulation, or partial depopulation and elimination strategies....pending Local proximity to other positive farms