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− | ==Infectious arthritis== | + | ==[[Infectious Arthritis]]== |
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− | *'''Bacterial arthritis'''
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− | **Most common in food animals, especially young
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− | **Portals of entry include:
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− | ***Navel and GI tract -> bacteraemia
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− | ***Haematogenously -> polyarthritis
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− | ***Traumatic inoculation
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− | ***Extension from bone or periarticular soft tissue
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− | *'''Viral arthritis'''
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− | **Progressive inflammatory and degenerative joint disease
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− | **Synovitis with cartilage destruction
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− | **Chronic mononuclear inflammatory reactions
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− | ===In Sheep===
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− | *[[Retroviridae|'''Maedi visna virus''']]
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− | *Bacterial infections mostly affects lambs except for Mycoplasmal artheritis
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− | *[[Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae|'''''Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae''''']]
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− | *'''''[[Corynebacterium pyogenes]]'''''
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− | *[[:Category:Streptococcus species|'''''Streptococcus'' spp.''']]
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− | *[[:Category:Staphylococcus species|'''''Staphylococci''''']]
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− | *[[:Category:Chlamydophila species|'''''Chlamydia sp.''''']]
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− | ===In Pigs===
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− | *[[Erysipelas - Pig|'''''Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae''''']]
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− | *'''''[[Corynebacterium pyogenes]]''''' and [[:Category:Staphylococcus species|'''''Staphylococci''''']]
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− | *'''''[[Haemophilus suis]]'' and ''[[Haemophilus parasuis]]'''''
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− | *'''''[[Mycoplasma hyosynoviae]]'' and ''M. hyorhinis'''''
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− | ===In Cattle===
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− | *Neonatal polyarthritis by:
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− | **[[:Category:Streptococcus species|'''''Streptococcus'' spp.''']]
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− | ***Via umbilicus
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− | ***Also involves eyes and meninges
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− | **[[Escherichia coli|'''''Coliforms''''']]
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− | ***Localises in joints and meninges in severe non-fatal neonatal colibacillosis
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− | ***May remain as chronic arthritis in larger joints
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− | *Infections at any age:
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− | **'''''[[Corynebacterium pyogenes]]'''''
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− | ***Suppurative arthrtis
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− | ***Often due to pebetrating wound into or close to joints
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− | **[[:Category:Mycoplasmas|'''''Mycoplasma spp.''''']]
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− | ***May be respinsible for some chronic cases but difficult to prove as hard to isolate
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− | ***Fibrinous polyarthritis
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− | **[[:Category:Chlamydophila species|'''''Chlamydia sp.''''']]
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− | ***Severe disease in young calves
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− | ***High mortality
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− | ***Can be seen in smears of synovial fluid from swollen joints
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− | ***Oedematous and hyperaemic surrounding tissue
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− | ***Possibly due to intrauterine infection
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− | **'''''[[Brucella abortus]]'''''
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− | ***Uncommonly localises in joints
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− | ***Usually in '''carpal bursitis (hygroma) in cattle and bursitis in horses'''
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− | ===In Horses===
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− | *Arthritis can occur following neonatal infections by:
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− | **'''''[[Actinobacillus equuli]]'''''
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− | **[[:Category:Streptococcus species|'''''Streptococcus'' spp.''']]
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− | **[[Escherichia coli|'''''Coliforms''''']]
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− | **[[Salmonella|'''''Salmonella''''']]
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− | ===In Goats===
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− | *[[Caprine Arthrirtis Encephalitis Virus]]
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− | ===In Dogs===
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− | *[[:Category:Staphylococcus species|'''''Staphylococci''''']]
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− | **May cause '''discospondylitis'''
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− | **Destructive inflammatory lesion
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− | **Bacterial localise in ''[[Joints - Anatomy & Physiology#Fibrocartilagenous joints|''annulus fibrosis'']] -> may spread to local bone
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