Small Animal Parasites

Question 1

How are dogs infected with Toxocara canis (roundworms)

Answer 1

Transplacental migration in utero

Question 2

What causes disease when dogs are infected with Acyclostoma caninum (hookworm?)

Answer 2

Disease is due to loss of blood from the small intestine - 40 uL lost per day! –> Anemia

Question 3

What is the smallest parasite that you can find in a cat fecal

Answer 3

Cryptosporidium felis

Question 4

Name two intestinal worms of cats that utilize paratenic hosts (small mammals)?

Answer 4

Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina

Question 5

Name the 2 most prevalent GI helminths of shelter cats

Answer 5

1 Toxocara cati and #2 Ancyclostoma tubaeforme

Question 6

Where do cat hookworms of live within the paratenic host? (Ancyclostoma spp or Uncinaria stenocephala)

Answer 6

Intracellularly within the muscles

Question 7

Name the large intestinal protozoal parasite of cats that causes a large bowel diarrhea

Answer 7

Tritrichomonas blagburni

Question 8

Where do the adults of Trichuris vulpis live in dogs?

Answer 8

Cecum and the anterior colon