nervous system diseases

4 Written Questions

1. listeriosis
2. tick paralysis
3. rabies
4. milk fever

4 Multiple Choice Questions

1. cattle grubs
   1. virus causing progressive fatal neurological disease.
   2. clostridium botulinum bacteria cause a rapidly fatal motor paralysis
   3. number 1 bacterial infection of the brain stem associated with silage feeding.
   4. organophosphate killing of heel fly larvae after they have reached the spinal cord resulting in spinal cord dysfunction. occurs in winter
2. botulism
   1. induced ascending symmetrical flaccid paralysis due to tick
   2. thiamine deficiency (B1)
   3. clostridium botulinum bacteria cause a rapidly fatal motor paralysis
   4. virus causing progressive fatal neurological disease.
3. Tetanus
   1. from deep puncture wounds producing a neurotoxin that results in a sawhorse stance and UMN symptoms
   2. clostridium botulinum bacteria cause a rapidly fatal motor paralysis
   3. decreased calcium associated with parturition resulting in a downer cow (LMN)
   4. induced ascending symmetrical flaccid paralysis due to tick
4. polioencephalomalacia
   1. virus causing progressive fatal neurological disease.
   2. thiamine deficiency (B1)
   3. induced ascending symmetrical flaccid paralysis due to tick
   4. neonatal maladjustment syndrome

4 True/False Questions

1. migrate through spinal cord and brain, number 1 cause of multifocal, asymmetric neurologic disease in horses (LMN) → equine protozoal myeloencephalitis

   True        False

2. neonatal maladjustment syndrome → dummies

   True        False

3. number 1 inorganic poisoning resulting in CNS and gastrointestinal clinical signs → lead toxicity

   True        False

4. toga virus transmitted mosquito resulting in CNS dysfunctional signs, sleeping sickness → equine encephalomyelitis

   True        False