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Intro to Animal Disease
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 3
09/14/2012

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What's another name for innate or inherited immunity?
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Nonspecific
Term
What describes the genetic ability of a dog to be "worry-free" of Feline Leukemia?
Definition
Species resistance
Term
What is the 1st line of defense?
Definition
Skin and mucous membranes
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What line of defense is the inflammatory response?
Definition
2nd line
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What cell begins in the bone marrow then moves to the thymus where it "learns" how to recognize and destroy pathogens?
Definition
T-cell lymphocytes
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What 3 things can cause an animal to be immunocompromised?
Definition
Age, poor nutrition, and infections
Term
What's another name for a modified live vaccine?
Definition
Attenuated
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What "core" vaccine do dogs and cats have in common?
Definition
Rabies
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Core or non-core: coronavirus
Definition
Non-core
Term
Core or non-core: Calicivirus
Definition
Core
Term
Core or non-core: Lyme disease
Definition
Non-core
Term
Core or non-core: Rabies
Definition
Core
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Core or non-core: Feline Leukemia
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Non-core
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Core or non-core: Parvovirus
Definition
Core
Term
Core or non-core: Panleukopenia
Definition
Core
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Core or non-core: Leptospirosis
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Non-core
Term
Core or non-core: Adeno 2 virus (Hepatitis)
Definition
Core
Term
What's an additive placed in vaccines?
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Adjuvant
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What's FVRCPC?
Definition
Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis, Calici, Panleukopenia, Chlamydia
Term
Severe flea infestation, GI parasites, and gastric ulceration can cause what?
Definition
Iron defiency anemias
Term
Where are 2 places to find petechial hemorrages?
Definition
Earflaps and mucous membranes
Term
What is Rhipicephalus sanguineus?
Definition
Brown dog tick
Term
When are Heinz bodies found?
Definition
Types of anemia
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T/F Cytauxzoon felis causes rapid clinical signs to death.
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True
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What does IMHA stand for?
Definition
Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia
Term
What's the most common tumor in dogs?
Definition
Malignant sarcoma
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What are the 3 stages of FIV?
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Acute, subclinical, and chronic clinical
Term
What disease does clostridium chauvoei cause in sheep and cattle?
Definition
Blackleg
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What is specific immunity?
Definition
Aquired or adaptive
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Non-specific or specific: Species resistance
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Non-specific
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T/F Non-specific immunity has "memory"
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False
Term
What quickly reacts with inflammation?
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Innate/Inherited (Non-specific)
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What uses the humoral response?
Definition
B-cell lymphocytes
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What can be a plasma cell or memory cell?
Definition
B-cell lymphocytes
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What cells use the cell-mediated response?
Definition
T-cell lymphocytes
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What brings invaders to t-cells?
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Macrophages
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T/F T-cells have a more rapid response than B-cells.
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True
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T/F Specific immunity has memory.
Definition
True
Term
What's resistance created after being born?
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Aquired immunity
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What type of immunity is an animal exposed to a pathogen?
Definition
Natural aquired immunity
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What type of immunity is deliberate exposure?
Definition
Artificial aquired immunity
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What's the passage of antibodies produced by one animal to another?
Definition
Humoral Passive Immunity
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What type of immunity is antibodies that are produced after exposure to an antigen?
Definition
Humoral active immunity
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What type of immunity is maternal antibodies ingested through colostrum?
Definition
Natural humoral passive immunity
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What type of immunity are gamma globulins?
Definition
Artificial humoral passive immunity
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What type of immunity are natural exposure to organisms?
Definition
Natural humoral active immunity
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Natural humoral active immunity are vaccinations?
Definition
Artificial humoral active immunity
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What become plasma cells that produce antibodies?
Definition
B-cells
Term
What's another name for antibodies?
Definition
Immunoglobulins
Term
What is the maternal antibody (transplancental)?
Definition
IgG
Term
What can remain as a memory cell and recognize antigens in future exposures?
Definition
B-cells
Term
What's the action of the functioning immune system?
Definition
Immunity
Term
What type of immunity uses interferon and complement?
Definition
Innate/Inherited
Term
What attracts WBC's by dilating blood vessels so it's easier for WBC's to get there?
Definition
Inflammation
Term
Increased temp. to inhibit growth, swelling, pain, heat, and redness attribute to what?
Definition
Inflammation
Term
What's it called when WBC's "gobble up" pathogens?
Definition
Phagocytosis
Term
What are monocytes called when they leave the bloodstream and go into the tissues?
Definition
Macrophages
Term
T/F Monocytes/Macrophages are part of the specific and non-specific immune system.
Definition
True
Term
What chemical substance that messes with with a viruses ability to reproduce/replicate?
Definition
Interferon
Term
What enzyme binds to an invader's cell wall, by poking holes and causing lysis?
Definition
Complement
Term
What's the 3rd line of defense?
Definition
Specific immunity
Term
Where are T and B cells created?
Definition
Bone marrow
Term
What type of vector carries and supports pathogen's replications?
Definition
Biological
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What type of vector carries the pathogen only?
Definition
Mechanical
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T/F Vertical transmission is infected by a non-parent.
Definition
False, horizontal
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Who regulates vaccines?
Definition
Center for Veterinary Biologicals (Division of USDA)
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What is the acceptable level of vaccine's efficiency?
Definition
65-95%
Term
T/F Vaccines give immunity.
Definition
False
Term
What's purpose is to stimulate an immune response?
Definition
A vaccine
Term
When and where should you store a vaccine?
Definition
Immediately, in fridge
Term
What type of vaccine is created and purified protein of organism that can't cause dz?
Definition
Recombinant
Term
Regenerative or Nonregenerative:Hemolysis & hemorrhage
Definition
Regenerative
Term
Regenerative or Nonregenerative: Bone marrow problems
Definition
Nonregenerative
Term
What creates altered RBC's with reduced life span?
Definition
Iron deficiency anemia
Term
What's it called when immune components attach to RBC's and alter cell structure causing it to be destroyed?
Definition
Hemolysis (Hemolytic anemia)
Term
What's the treatment for Hemolytic anemia?
Definition
Steroids to suppress immune system
Term
How is neonate hemolytic anemia caused?
Definition
Incompatible blood types meeting through colostrum
Term
What creates anemia in cats?
Definition
Mycoplasma hemofelis
Term
What does Babesia canis and gibsoni cause?
Definition
Canine anemias
Term
What is the vector for Babesia anemias?
Definition
Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Brown dog tick)
Term
What's created by nonreversible hemicromes and denatured hemoglobin?
Definition
Heinz bodies
Term
Glucocorticoids, Cimetidine, Sucralfate, and Heparin are used to treat what?
Definition
Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA)
Term
What's similar to IMHA but involves platelets?
Definition
Immune-mediated Thrombocytopenia
Term
What was discovered in '63 and is carried by tick or blood transfusion?
Definition
Ehrlichiosis
Term
What causes platelet consumption, RBC destruction, bone marrow suppression, and aplastic anemia?
Definition
Erlichiosis
Term
What're good drugs to treat Erlichiosis?
Definition
Tetracycline, Doxycycline
Term
What's the most common inherited hemostasis disorder?
Definition
von Willebrand disease
Term
What happens with decreased/absent von willebrand's factor?
Definition
Bleeding disease (platelets don't clump)
Term
What can be diagnosed by Buccal mucosal bleeding time?
Definition
von Willebrand's disease
Term
What cauuses 90% of feline tumors?
Definition
Lymphoma
Term
Mediastinal, alimentary, and multicentric are types of what tumor?
Definition
Lymphoma
Term
T/F There is a cure for Lymphoma.
Definition
False, only hope for remission
Term
What's the most common canine tumor?
Definition
Lymphosarcoma
Term
T/F Prednisone is a good treatment for tumors.
Definition
True
Term
T/F FIV is zoonotic.
Definition
False
Term
What is spread through cat fights mostly,nursing kittens, bowls, and grooming?
Definition
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
Term
What happens in the acute stage of FIV?
Definition
Mild symptoms
Term
What happens in the subclinical stage of FIV?
Definition
No clinical signs, still present and lurking
Term
What happens in the chronic clinical stage of FIV?
Definition
Opportunistic infections
Term
T/F Equine infectious anemia has to be reported.
Definition
True
Term
What equine disease can be transmitted by biting flies, ssharing needles, or equipment?
Definition
Equine Infectious Anemia
Term
What happens if a Coggins test is positive for Equine Infectious Anemia?
Definition
Euthanasia or branded and quarantined
Term
Red Maple Toxicosis affects what animal?
Definition
Equine
Term
What sheep disease causes thick creamy abscesses and antibiotics aren't usually effective?
Definition
Caseous Lymphadenitis
Term
What's caused by clostridium septicum and causes fever, local pain, and edematous swelling?
Definition
Malignant edema
Term
What's caused by clostridium chauvoei that causes wounds, fever, shock, death, and swelling?
Definition
Blackleg
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