Category: Muscles and Tendons

Tapioca Disease Tapioca Disease Tapioca Disease Tapioca Disease
Posted in Muscles and Tendons Parasitic Teleosts

๐€ ๐ฃ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐œ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง? ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ๐ง’๐ญ ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ ๐ž๐ง? Today’s path rounds are on ๐ญ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐จ๐œ๐š ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž! ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ?Tapioca…

Sarcocystosis Sarcocystosis Sarcocystosis Sarcocystosis
Posted in Multispecies Muscles and Tendons Parasitic

๐’๐š๐ซ๐œ๐จ๐œ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ is a parasitic infection caused by a protozoal parasite, ๐’๐š๐ซ๐œ๐จ๐œ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ. The prevalence of this parasite approaches 100% in cattle, sheep and horses, which is nuts!

White Muscle Disease White Muscle Disease White Muscle Disease White Muscle Disease
Posted in Multispecies Muscles and Tendons Nutritional

๐–๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐œ๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž is basically as the name suggests, a disease of the muscle that turns it white instead of its normal red colour. This disease is associated with nutritional problems!

Tying Up Tying Up Tying Up Tying Up
Posted in Equids Genetic Muscles and Tendons Nutritional

๐“๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฎ๐ฉ is more properly known as ๐ž๐ฑ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ก๐š๐›๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ. In this condition, exercise causes rapid degeneration of the muscle fibers, which can be extremely painful!

American Hepatozoonosis American Hepatozoonosis American Hepatozoonosis American Hepatozoonosis
Posted in Canids Muscles and Tendons Parasitic

๐‡๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ณ๐จ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ is infection by ๐‡๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ณ๐จ๐จ๐ง species, where are a genus of ๐€๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ง๐ฌ. Apicomplexans are a type of parasite that must live within the cells of their hosts in order to survive.

Blackleg Blackleg Blackleg Blackleg
Posted in Bacterial Bovids Muscles and Tendons

๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค๐ฅ๐ž๐  is a form of ๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ (muscle infection causing death of tissue) caused by bacterial infection. This disease is typically characterized by โ€œbubblesโ€ in the muscle, from the bacteria producing gas.

Pork Worms Pork Worms Pork Worms Pork Worms
Posted in Muscles and Tendons Parasitic Suids

๐“๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ is a roundworm whose larvae like to live in muscle tissue, while the adults live in the small intestine. They have been known to cause outbreaks of disease in humans, because they are ๐ณ๐จ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐œ (infect both humans and animals)!

Double Muscling Double Muscling Double Muscling Double Muscling
Posted in Bovids Canids Genetic Muscles and Tendons

๐ƒ๐จ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  is a genetic condition where the animal looks heavily muscled, despite having normal exercise, diet, and other lifestyle factors.