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Question | Answer |
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What does the I in the saying learned to ask clients in exam? | Intestinal Parasites |
What does the DONT stand for in the saying learned to ask clients during exam? | Diet |
What does the HAVE stand for in the saying learned in class? | Heartworms |
What does ANY stand for in the saying learned? | Altering or fixed |
What does the BEST mean in the saying learned in class? | Behavior |
What does FRIENDS mean in the saying learned in class? | FeLV / FIV |
What does the WITH mean from the saying learned in class? | Weight |
What does the VERY mean in the saying learned in class? | vaccines |
What does the FUNNY mean in the saying? | Fleas |
What does the TOES mean in the saying? | Ticks |
passive immunity | is immunity AQUIRED from the MOTHER through the 1st milk during NURSING. |
colostrum | first milk |
what does the colostrum contain? | contains antibodies that protct the younge against dieses. |
AQUIRED IMMUNITY | EXTERNAL envirament by being exposed to antigens. then their bodies make antibodies to go against the antigens |
what do the vaccines give to the animals? | produce humoral B-cells circulating antibodies and/or cell medicate lymphocytes T-cells. |
VIRUS | is a submicroscopic infectious agent that is unable to grow or reproduce outside a host cell |
FeLV | feline leukemia |
retrovirus | incorporates genetic material into host DNA and can cause certain cancers in cats |
Testing for FeLV? | ELISA - can be performed on site at office and IFA which is sent out to another lab. |
What does FeLV do to cats? | affects the body in many ways most commonly is cancer, blood disorders, immune deficiency |
what are signs of FeLV? | loss of appetite, slow, weight loss, poor coat conditions, lymphnodes enlarge,fever, pale gums, diarrhea, ect... |
FIV | feline imunodeficiency virus |
What is FIV | slow virus, same retrovirus family as FeLV |
how is FIV transmitted? | biting, free roaming, aggressive male cats, can be transmitted through the mother cat to her kittens by passing through the birth canal. |