Tetanus

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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