Class Cattle Infectious Disease Project

VTHT 2209 Food Animal Clinical Management

Prepare a presentation (Powerpoint) on one of the diseases to be studied in the third and four week of this class. See course outline. Since this is a food animal course, then the disease must pertain to ruminants. Include the following discussions:

A)DETAILS: (65 points)

-Etiology or cause __ /5 points

-History of disease: when first detected, when vaccines developed. __ /5 points

-Signalment: (Animal's age, sex and breed.__ /5 points

-Transmission route: Inhalation, ingestion, fomites, mucosal.__ /5 points

-Clinical signs. __ /10 points

-Diagnostics – tests and interpretation of results. __ /10 points

-Recommended treatmentand withdrawal times. __ /10 points

-Prognosis. __ /5 points

-Prevention and client education. __ /10 points

B)Presentation guidelines. __ /25 points

1)Group size: 1-3 per group

2)Time (10 – 15 minutes) :

3)References: include sources other than the Common Diseases book: other textbooks, on-line sources: as recommended by list

4)Name of each member on hardcopy

5)Submit hard copy and student evaluations on day of presentation

6)Communication

C)CREATIVITY. Think outside the moooooo……___/10 points

D)Student Evaluation. __ / ONE GRADE BELOW

TOTAL: ((A-C) + D)/2. __ /90 points

DISEASES (n=39): 18 groups = 2 and 3 groups = 1

RESPIRATORY

  1. Shipping Fever: Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV)
  2. Tuberculosis

OCULAR

  1. Eye diseases: Pink eye and Squamous cell carcinoma:

GASTROINTESTINAL

  1. Oral diseases: Lumpy jaw, Actinobacillosis (wooden tongue)
  2. Neonatal scours and Salmonella
  3. Johnes’s diseases
  4. Bovine Viral Diarrhea
  5. Hardware disease: Beatriz and Chelsie
  6. Ruminal tympany (Bloat)

REPRODUCTIVE/URINARY

  1. Postpartum diseases in dairy cattle: ketosis, metritis, milk fever
  2. Mastitis
  3. STD:Vibrosis, Trichomoniasis
  4. Leptospirosis
  5. Brucellosis

MUSCULOSKELETAL/NEUROLOGICAL

  1. Grass tetany
  2. Black Leg, Malignant Edema, tetanus
  3. Foot rot
  4. Polioencephalomalasia
  5. Listeriosis
  6. Rabies
  7. Reportable diseases: Foot and Mouth Disease and Anthrax