In this episode, Dr. Lottie talks about
tetanus. How disease develops, why the clinical
signs differ between species, what we can actually do to treat it
and what the best prevention methods are.
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Timeline:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Case
01:50 Aetiology & Pathogenesis
05:29 Clinical Signs
08:01 Diagnosis
11:54 Treatment
16:19 Prevention
19:13 Key Points
20:46 Outro
Recommended Reading
‘Chapter 14 - Diseases of the Nervous System’ – in Veterinary
Medicine - A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep,
Pigs and Goats
‘Tetanus’ – in Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary Consult:
Equine
References
Popoff, M.R. (2020) ‘Tetanus in animals’, Journal of
Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 32(2), pp. 184–191.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1040638720906814.
Linnenbrink, T. and McMichael, M. (2006) ‘Tetanus:
pathophysiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, and update on new
treatment modalities’, Journal of Veterinary Emergency and
Critical Care, 16(3), pp. 199–207. Available at:
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-4431.2006.00192.x.
Gohari, I.M. and Prescott, J.F. (2022) ‘Clostridium’, in
Veterinary Microbiology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 309–334.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119650836.ch34.
Burkitt, J.M. et al. (2007) ‘Risk factors associated with
outcome in dogs with tetanus: 38 cases (1987–2005)’, Journal of
the American Veterinary Medical Association, 230(1), pp. 76–83.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.2460/javma.230.1.76.
Chase, C. et al. (2017) Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary
Consult: Ruminant. Newark, UNITED STATES: John Wiley & Sons,
Incorporated.
Lavoie, J.-P. (2020) Blackwell’s Five-Minute Veterinary
Consult: Equine. Third. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Tilley, L.P. and Smith, F.W.K. (2011) Blackwell’s Five-Minute
Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline. Hoboken, UNITED STATES:
Wiley.
Constable, P.D. et al. (2017) ‘Chapter 14 - Diseases of the
Nervous System’, in Veterinary Medicine - A Textbook of the
Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs and Goats. 11th edn. St.
Louis, Missouri: Elsevier.
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