Misc. Flashcards
Paratenic Host: Ascaris suum
Beetles
Earthworms
Clinical Signs: Ascaris suum
“Milk spots”
“Thumps” shallow rapid breathing
Trichinella spiralis: Dx
Digest
Compression
Life cycle: Trichinella spiralis
Never sees the outside environment
Passed through carnivory
Metastrongylus: Intermediate hosts
Earthworms
Pig Lungworm
Metastrongylus
Nurse Cells
Trichinella spiralis
Spicules
Male repro structure
Metastrongylus
Intermediate host: Metastrongylus
Earthworms
The Hog Louse
Haematopinus suis
Cigar Shaped
Demodex phylloides
Gullet Worm
Gongylonema pulchrum
Cuticular Bosses
Gongylonema pulchrum
Intermediate Host: Gongylonema pulchrum
Beetles, cockroaches
Clinical Signs: Gongylonema pulchrum
Esophagus with white or red blood-filled zig-zag tracks
Brainworm
Parelaphostrongylus tenuis
Definitive Host: Parelaphostrongylus tenuis
White-tailed deer
Intermediate hosts: Parelaphostrongylus tenuis
Snails, slugs
Moose sickness
Parelaphostrongylus tenuis
Intermediate hosts: Dicrocoelium dendriticum
1st: land snails
2nd: brown ants
Elephants
Fasciola jacksoni
Miracidium, sporocysts, rediae, cercariae
Fasciola spp.
Infective Stage: Fasciola
Metacercariae (encysted on grass)
Intermediate, Definitive hosts of echinococcus
IH: herbivores, omnivores
DH: carnivore
Paratenic Host: ascarida galli
Earthworm
Cecal Worm
Heterakis gallinarum
“Blackhead”
Histomonas meleagridis [vector is Heterakis gallinarum]
Paratenic host: Histomonas meleagridis
Earthworms
Reservoirs: Blackhead
Chickens
Hairworms/Threadworms
Capullara annulata/Eucoleus annulata
Intermediate Hosts: Capullara annulata/Eucoleus annulata
Earthworm
“Scaly Leg and Scaly Face”
Knemidocoptes - Mite