Term
| Pathology Strep. pyogenes |
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Definition
| pyogenic infection, minor bovine mastitis, spread through unpasteurized milk |
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Term
| Pathology Strep. agalactiae |
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Definition
| women can be cervical carriers, neonatal infections, contagious mastitis |
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Term
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Definition
| URI, enlarged lymph nodes, dyspnea, very contagious |
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Term
| Pathology Strep. dysgalactiae |
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Definition
| minor cause of bovine mastitis |
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Term
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Definition
| skin and wound infections, UTI |
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Term
| Pathology Strep. pneumoniae |
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Definition
| 60-70% bacterial pneumonia in humans, high mortality, otitis media in children, pneumonia in guinea pigs |
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Term
| Pathology Enterococcus faecalis |
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Definition
| normal intestinal flora, nosocomial infections, opportunistic, antibiotic resistant |
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Term
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Definition
| food poisoning, contagious mastitis, skin infections, otitis, GU infections, osteomyelitis, arthritis, bacterimia |
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Term
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Definition
| common in piglets, yellow crusts on snout, head, ears, looks greasy, can spread to body, highly contagious |
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Term
| Pathology Strep. epidermidis |
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Definition
| normal flora, opportunistic |
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Term
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Definition
| ubiquitous, non-pathogenic |
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Term
| Pathology Corynebacterum pseudotuberculosis |
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Definition
| spreads to lymph nodes, abscesses - onion rings, all over body in horses, edema and caseous pus |
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Term
| Pathology Corynebacterium renale |
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Definition
| cattle - pyogenic infection of urinary tract, necrosis and ulceratio of MM, bloody urine. Sheep - brought on by high protein diet, urine pH changes, scalds on skin and MM of genitalia |
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Term
| Pathology Listeria monocytogenes |
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Definition
| visceral abscesses on internal organs (monogastric animals) neural meningitis, unilateral ataxia, usially fatal, and aboritons (ruminants) common cause of food poisoning, affects CNS in immunocompromised (humans) |
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Term
| Pathology Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae |
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Definition
| diamond dkin disease, septicemia, endocarditis, arthritis (pigs), septicemia, endocarditis, high mortality (fowl), skin lesions, septicemia (fish), fish handler's (humans) |
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Term
| Pathology Arcanobacterium pyogenes |
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Definition
| pyogenic infections, mastitis, pneumnoia, umbilical infections, large abscesses with thick capsules |
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Term
| Pathology Rhodococcus equi |
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Definition
| abscessing pneumonia, fever, anorexia, crackles & rales |
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Term
| Pathology Bacillus anthracis |
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Definition
| exotoxin acts on CVS and CNS, damages blood vessels, edema, convulsions, coma, no rigor mortis |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium botulinum |
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Definition
| neurotoxin prevents release of ACH, paralysis and weakness, 90-95% mortality in animals |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium tetani |
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Definition
| neurotoxin, blocks inhibitory neurons - muscle spasms and contractions |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium perfringens |
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Definition
| hemorrhagic enteritis, systemic toxemia, neurological signs, sudden death, severe diarrhea |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium septicum |
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Definition
| histoltoxic clostridia, tissue necrosis and edema "gas gangrene" pockets of gas, systemic toxemia, high fatality |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium chauvoie |
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Definition
| exotixin causes swelling, edema, gas gangrene, discolored skin, systemic toxemia, highly fatal |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium novyi |
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Definition
| common near liver flukes, liver damage, liver necrosis, systemic toxemia, highly fatal |
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Term
| Pathology Clostridium haemoliticum |
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Definition
| common near liver flukes, pre-existing liver damage, hemolysis, red urine, anemia, high fever, highly fatal |
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Term
| Pathology Actinomyces bovis |
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Definition
| abscesses around head, neck & mandible, teeth fall out, pus has sulfur granules |
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Term
| Pathology Actinomyces viscosus |
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Definition
| abscesses around head, neck and thorax, pus contains sulfur granules |
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Term
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Definition
| wound - fistulas and draning tract, pyothorax, spread to internal organs, mastitis |
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Term
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Definition
| localixed dermatitis, skin lesions, crusts and scabs |
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Term
| Pathology opportunistic E. coli |
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Definition
| cystitis, pyometra, mastitis, peritonitis, wound infections |
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Term
| Pathology enteropathogenic E. coli |
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Definition
| invasive (tissue invasion, hemorrhagic lesions in GI tract, homorrhagic enterites, septicemia, endotoxemia, high fatality) enterotoxin producing (disrupts cell membranes of intestines, lose water, electrolytes, and bicarbonate, dehydration and acidosis) |
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Term
| Pathology Klebsiella pneumoiae |
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Definition
| urinary pathogen, pneumoia, wound infections, cervicitis, metritis, mastitis |
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Term
| Pathology Proteus mirabilis |
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Definition
| opportunistic, UTI, otitis, wounds, mastitis |
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Term
| Pathology Proteus vulgaris |
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Definition
| opportunistic, UTI, wounds, otitis, mastitis |
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Term
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Definition
| gastroenteritis (invades intestinal mucosa, diarrhea, fever) Septicemia ( compromised animals, endotoxemia) calf scours |
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Term
| Pathology Yersinia pestis |
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Definition
| buboic plague (most common, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, lethargy) Septicemic plague (high fever, lethargy) Pneumonic plague (plague pneumonia) |
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Term
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Definition
| hemorrhagic, watery diarrhea |
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