The Best Shipping Fever Crossword Ever

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  1. 3. Both P. Multocida and M. Haemolytica produce this virulence factor which functions to help create a permeability barrier to protect the bacterial cell from deleterious molecules such as antimicrobials, toxins, or bile salts.
  2. 4. This pulmonary pattern may be found on thoracic radiographs of a cow with BRDC.
  3. 5. When to vaccinate an animal prior to shipping.
  4. 6. Cattle in respiratory distress often stand with their elbows (blank) due to the thoracic pain they are experiencing.
  5. 9. Most (blank) disease of beef cattle in North America.
  6. 10. The (blank) explains the factors associated with the initiation and spread of BRDC. These factors are host, agent, and environment.
  7. 17. Deficiency of these essential nutrients can increase risk for BRDC.
  8. 21. Helps to provide immunity against bacterial and viral pathogens of this disease complex.
  9. 23. M.haemolytica produces this virulence factor.
  10. 24. This enveloped DNA virus can be responsible for shipping fever.
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  1. 1. Common name for BRDC in calves.
  2. 2. This class of antibiotics, including erythromycin and tulathromycin, is commonly used to treat BRDC.
  3. 7. Disease that jumps to top of your differential list after hearing that a cow shipped 5 days ago and now has fever, tachypnea, coughing, and nasal discharge.
  4. 8. Reduction of this can help prevent this disease complex.
  5. 11. Common name for BRDC in cows.
  6. 12. You may hear (blank) when ausculting the lungs of a bovine with BRDC. This noise is associated with fluid infiltrating the alveoli.
  7. 13. The bacteria associated with BRDC are also commensals organisms to this body system.
  8. 14. Most of the bacterial causes of BRDC can be classified as (blank)
  9. 15. This protocol involves long-acting antibiotics given to calves on arrival. It can decrease morbidity and mortality of shipping fever.
  10. 16. This thoracic imaging modality used to aid in diagnosis of shipping fever has a sensitivity of 66-94% and specificity of 88-100% in young dairy calves.
  11. 18. (Blank) is one of the common bacterial components of BRDC and is also a common cause of inner ear infections in calves.
  12. 19. Typically, BRDC begins with a (blank) infection that is then followed within 3-5 days by a bacterial infection.
  13. 20. Type of pleuritis on dead cow with M. Haemolytica infection.
  14. 22. This metabolic derangement can suppress host mechanisms of immunity, therefore increasing risk for developing shipping fever.