VB SC 050S Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Pancytopenia, Itch, Pathognomonicity
1 Nov 2016
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Disease diagnosis (class 14 notes: goal: to establish an etiologic diagnosis, symptom vs sign, etiologic: causing or contributing to the cause of a disease or condition, signalment and anamnesis. Anamnesis: the history of an animal or herd: environmental conditions: housing type, ventilation, diet, disease prevalence, immunization programs, general and speci c information about the case, physical examination. Palpitation: feeling for abnormalities with light pressure. Persuasion: tapping ngers and judging sound waves around the body: diagnostic aids. Microbiology: cultures: growing the organism on disks, sensitivity testing: putting different antibiotics on a disk of a culture, seeing if they are sensitive, moderate, or resistant to that antibiotic, pcr: polymerase chain reaction. Parasitology: looking for external or internal parasites through skin, tissue, urine, fecal matter samples etc. Pathological examination of tissue in a lab, helps with tumors, also includes postmortem exams. Persistent diseases: bovine viral diarrhea, tuberculosis, canine distemper, retrovirus. Infectious diseases: bovine respiratory disease complex, in uenza.
