Final

Question 1

What is the difference between the sucking and chewing lice?

Answer 1

Chewing have wide heads with mandibles

sucking have small heads with claws

Question 2

Who transmits the swinepox

Answer 2

Haematopinus

Question 3

What is the chewing louse of the dog?

Answer 3

Trichodectes canis

Question 4

Chewing louse of cats?

Answer 4

Felicola subrostrata

Question 5

Chewing louse of cattle, horses sheep and goats?

Answer 5

Damalinia

Question 6

Chewing louse of guinea pigs

Answer 6

Gliricola porcelli

Question 7

Which chewing louse can harbor Diplydium caninum?

Answer 7

Trichodectes canis

Question 8

Infestation with lice more common in winter months when animals are crowded-whats this called?

Answer 8

Pediculosis

Question 9

Whats the Life cycle type of fleas?

Answer 9

Complex metamorphasis

Question 10

Whats the life cycle type of lice?

Answer 10

Incomplete/simple metamorphasis

Question 11

What are the hosts for the Haematopinus?

Answer 11

Swine, cattle and horses

Question 12

Which louse have abdominal spircles not heavily sclerotized and do not protrude above surface of the abdomen?

Answer 12

Linognathus

Question 13

What animals does Linognathus affect?

Answer 13

Dogs, Cattle, sheep/goats

Question 14

Which louse has abdominal spiracle that do protrude above the surface of the abdomen?

Answer 14

Solenopotes

Question 15

What kinds of lice can birds get?

Answer 15

ONLY chewing

Question 16

Which lice are the human lice?

Answer 16

Pediculus capitis

or Pthirus

Question 17

Which lice is the human crab louse and why is it called this?

Answer 17

Pthirus

Small first claws and larger 2nd and 3rd tarsal claws making it look like a crab

Question 18

Which louse is the human head is the body louse

Answer 18

Pediculus humanus

Question 19

Which louse transmits swine pox?

Answer 19

Haematopinus

Question 20

Which tongue worm is zoonotic?

Answer 20

Linguatula serrata

Question 21

If you have a reptile that comes in with respiratory distress and chronic wasting, what are you going to suspect?

Answer 21

Linguatula serrata

Question 22

What can Linguata serrata cause in dogs?

Answer 22

Sneezing, nasal discharge, obstruction of nasal passages

Question 23

What stage of life is the of infective stage of linguatula

Answer 23

Nymphs

Question 24

What is the common name for the Pentastomes?

Answer 24

Tongue worms

Question 25

Life cycle of Pentastomes

Answer 25

- egg is ingested by mammalian intermediate host (ex. rodent, ruminant, human, or non-human primate) - larva hatch and migrate to the liver, lymph nodes, and peritoneal mesenteries - larva develop into infective nymphs and become “encased in host tissues - definitive host eats infected intermediate host and adults mature - ingested nymphs migrate up the back of the throat into nasal turbinates or are swallowed - eggs secreted in nasal secretions and feces (eggs coughed up and then swallowed in order to be released via GIT)

Question 26

Which 2 will make you think guinea pigs have epilepsy? Whats it really due to

Answer 26

Gliricola and Trixocara there is intense pruritis

Question 27

Deck of the boat, who did they claim it came from

Answer 27

Pthirus

Question 28

Which louse is associated with the respiratory system

Answer 28

Pentastomes

Question 29

Which louse is on reptiles that can cause respiratory distress and chronic wasting?

Answer 29

Linguatula serrata Pentastome

Question 30

Which tick has an anal groove?

Answer 30

Ixodes

Question 31

Lyme dz can be transmitted

Answer 31

Sexually, transtadial and intrastadial

Question 32

Whats it called when you have a larvae or nymph ingest the pathogen and carry it through to the next life cycle/

Answer 32

Transtadial

Question 33

Whats it called when males looking for a female bites a host and transmits the pathogen?

Answer 33

Intrastadial

Question 34

What causes abortion, hepatomegaly and fever in horses? | and who is the IH

Answer 34

Babesia caballi Dermacenter

Question 35

What is a fatal dz of cats, acute onset of fever?

Answer 35

Cytauzoon felis

Question 36

What is zoonotic if you eat the eggs?

Answer 36

Pentastomes

Question 37

Which dz accumulates in the MACS and occude BV Who is the IH

Answer 37

Cytauzoon Felis Dermacentor

Question 38

Which tick is considered the house/kennel pest

Answer 38

Rhpicephalus

Question 39

What can Rhipicephalus transmit?

Answer 39

Babesia canis

Question 40

What dz can cause IV and EV hemolysis, hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia

Answer 40

Babesia Canis

Question 41

What is dermacenter a vector for?

Answer 41

Ehrlichia and RMSF

Question 42

How does Rhipicephalus transmit?

Answer 42

Transtadial-ANY STAGE--mainly for ehrlichia

Question 43

What is Rhipicephalus a vector for?

Answer 43

Ehrlichia canis

Question 44

What are the 2 on this test that can cause respiratory issues?

Answer 44

Pneumonyssoides and pentastomes

Question 45

What is the diff between Boophilus and Rhipecephalus Which on is reportable?

Answer 45

Festoons. Boo does not have festoons but they both have hexagonal basis capitulums Boophilus

Question 46

How does boophilus transmit babesia?

Answer 46

horizontal and vertical through transovarian transmission bOO for the Offsprings through transOverian

Question 47

Who transmits Hepatozoon? how?

Answer 47

Amblyomma Have to ingest the tick

Question 48

C/S of hapatoon

Answer 48

Fever | Periosteal Proliferation

Question 49

What else can Amblyomma transmit?

Answer 49

Heartwater--ehrlichia ruminatum cytauxzoon

Question 50

Which tick causes allergic reaction to meat from its saliva

Answer 50

Amblyomma

Question 51

What animal has been banned from importation and why

Answer 51

Leopard Tortoise `bc they are said to carry amblyomma

Question 52

What animal will you see argas tick on?

Answer 52

Chickens, turkeys, wildbirds

Question 53

What are the c/s of argas infection

Answer 53

Blood loss Decreased egg production weak and unthrifty appearance

Question 54

Which life cycle of argas can cause fatal flaccid paralysis of young chickens?

Answer 54

Larvae

Question 55

Which tick has adults as free living

Answer 55

Otobius megnini

Question 56

Where will you find otobius on the body,

Answer 56

Ear canals

Question 57

If a horse has muscle cramps, sweating and muscle fascicculations, and colic, what tick will you be suspicious of

Answer 57

Otobius

Question 58

Whats another name for otobius?

Answer 58

Spinose ear tick

Question 59

What is the common snake mite?

Answer 59

Ophionyssus/Dermanyssus

Question 60

What are the c/s you will see with an ophionyssis/derman infestation

Answer 60

Anemia, dehydration, dermatitis UNABLE TO SHED SKIN

Question 61

Which mite is zoonotic and will cause pruritic dermatitis?

Answer 61

Ohpionyssus/Derman

Question 62

What is a good test for mesostigmatid mites? Who are the mesostigmatid mites?

Answer 62

Berlese techinique Ophionyssus/Dermanyssus, Pneumonyssoides, and Sternostomas

Question 63

Which mite is the nasal/sinus mite of the dog, and what are the c/s

Answer 63

Pneumonyssoides Epistaxis, coughing, chronic reverse sneezing

Question 64

What mite will you see in birds, and what will be the c/s

Answer 64

Sternostoma trachaecolum Open mouth breathing, loss of voice

Question 65

Who are the hosts for sarcoptes?

Answer 65

``` Dogs Ferrets Wild canids Rabbits Swine ```

Question 66

What does the stalk of the sarcoptes look like?

Answer 66

Long, unsegmented

Question 67

Who are the hosts for Notoedres?

Answer 67

``` Cats rats rabbits foxes squirrels ```

Question 68

What c/s will you see with notoedres?

Answer 68

self mutulation dermatitis | grey crusts

Question 69

What mite will you see on Chickens turkeys and pheasants? What does it cause/lesions?

Answer 69

Knemidokoptes Scaly legs lesions on legs, beak, vent

Question 70

What is the might of the guinea pig?

Answer 70

Trixacarus

Question 71

What will you see c/s from a trixacarus?

Answer 71

pseudoseizures due to intense pruritis

Question 72

What mite is reportable in large animals?

Answer 72

All of them--but psoroptes and sarcoptes are the ones she pointed out

Question 73

Where will you see psoroptes on rabbits

Answer 73

External ear canal

Question 74

How does psoroptes look?

Answer 74

Long segmented pedicle they so(a)r into the sky with their long seg pedicles

Question 75

Who does chorioptes infect?

Answer 75

Large animals Hedgehogs rabbites

Question 76

How do you tell chorioptes and psoroptes apart/

Answer 76

Chorioptes has short unsegmented pedicles chorioptes are chumps

Question 77

C/S of chorioptes?

Answer 77

Pruritis of tail and legs Hedgehogs will loose their quills

Question 78

mites of the external ear canal?

Answer 78

otodectes

Question 79

Which mite is cigar shaped?

Answer 79

Demodex

Question 80

Immunosuppressive conditions: Tcell autosomoal recessive gene

Answer 80

Demodex

Question 81

Which one is the walking dandruff?

Answer 81

Cheyletiellla

Question 82

How can you tell you are looking at a cheyletiella?

Answer 82

Palpal claws

Question 83

Who does cheyletiella infect?

Answer 83

dogs, cats, rabbits, HUMANS

Question 84

Chiggers, what stage is parasitic?

Answer 84

Larvae, not the lymphs or adults