Parasitology

Question 1

What kind of lifecycle do heartworms have?

Answer 1

indirect

Question 2

What is the intermediate host of heart worms?

Answer 2

misquitoes

Question 3

What is Dirofilaria immitis?

Answer 3

heartworm

Question 4

What is the prepatent period of heartworm disease?

Answer 4

6-9 months

Question 5

How long do adult heartworms live?

Answer 5

5 years

Question 6

How long can microfilariae live in the bloodstream?

Answer 6

up to 2 years

Question 7

When do you have the best chance to discover microfilariae?

Answer 7

if blood sample is taken at night (they’re nocturnal)

Question 8

What kind of life cycle do tapeworms have?

Answer 8

indirect

Question 9

What on the tapeworm absorbs nutrients?

Answer 9

scolex

Question 10

Taenia sp is really _____

Answer 10

geometric

Question 11

What kind of tapeworm likes neural tissue?

Answer 11

Echinococcus spp.

Question 12

What is the intermediate host of dipylidium?

Answer 12

flea

Question 13

What species is commonly infected with Taenia spp?

Answer 13

cat

Question 14

Where are liver flukes found?

Answer 14

in and around bile ducts, sometimes attached to the liver

Question 15

What are the intermediate host for liver flukes?

Answer 15

snails

Question 16

Scientific name for liver flukes.

Answer 16

Fasciola hepatica

Question 17

It is _____ to find eggs of a fluke.

Answer 17

difficult

Question 18

What kind of lifecycle does the fluke have?

Answer 18

indirect

Question 19

What do liver flukes consume?

Answer 19

blood

Question 20

T/F. Coccidia is an intermittent shedder.

Answer 20

true

Question 21

What species is susceptible to coccidia?

Answer 21

bunnies

Question 22

Which life stage of coccidia is commonly identified?

Answer 22

oocyst

Question 23

How is coccidia transmitted?

Answer 23

ingestion of infected feces

Question 24

Which life cycle requires an intermediate host?

Answer 24

indirect

Question 25

T/F. All parasites do some degree of damage to the host.

Answer 25

true

Question 26

Three "keys: to parasitism.

Answer 26

Adaptions to 1. live 2. reproduce 3. infect new host

Question 27

The two major groups of ectoparasites are:

Answer 27

insects and arachnids

Question 28

Insects have ___ legs as adults and arachnids have ___ legs as adults.

Answer 28

six/eight

Question 29

Ticks belong to two major groups, ____ or "hard" ticks and ______ or "soft" ticks.

Answer 29

ixodidae/argasidae

Question 30

One disease that is transmitted to dogs by the common deerk tick is:

Answer 30

lyme disease

Question 31

T/F. Paralysis is a potential danger for dogs that have been subjected to tick bites.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Otobius is commonly called the:

Answer 32

spinose ear tick

Question 33

_____ is the scientific name for the "flea"

Answer 33

Ctenocephalides sp

Question 34

The flea is an ___.

Answer 34

insect

Question 35

T/F. "ear mites" are insects.

Answer 35

false

Question 36

Scientific name for "ear mite".

Answer 36

Otodectes cynotis

Question 37

Lice are divided into two major groups based on anatomy, those types are _____.

Answer 37

biting/suckingq

Question 38

The "deer tick" is implicated in this zoonotic diease.

Answer 38

lyme

Question 39

The intestinal phase of which disease only happens in cats?

Answer 39

Toxoplasma gondii

Question 40

Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis has an affinity for what kind of tissue?

Answer 40

neural

Question 41

What causes EPM?

Answer 41

Sarcocystis neurona

Question 42

What is EPM's definitive host?

Answer 42

opossum which gets it from bird

Question 43

T/F. The horse is a dead end host for EPM.

Answer 43

true

Question 44

Examples of insects.

Answer 44

flea, fly, mosquito, lice

Question 45

Examples of arachnids.

Answer 45

mites, ticks

Question 46

Sarcoptes sp is?

Answer 46

scabies mite

Question 47

T/F. Scabies females burrow into the skin.

Answer 47

true

Question 48

Mallophaga lice do what?

Answer 48

biting/chewing

Question 49

Anoplura lice do what?

Answer 49

sucking

Question 50

Haematopinus suis.

Answer 50

hog louse

Question 51

Linognathus setosus.

Answer 51

canine sucking louse

Question 52

Gliricola porcelli.

Answer 52

guinea pig lice

Question 53

Haematopinus asini.

Answer 53

horse sucking louse

Question 54

Dermatobia hominis.

Answer 54

human bot fly

Question 55

Gasterophilus spp.

Answer 55

horse bot

Question 56

If you have too many horse bots they can rupture what?

Answer 56

stomach

Question 57

Trichenella spiralis

Answer 57

trichina worm

Question 58

What does Trichostrongylus spp inhabit?

Answer 58

abomasum and occasionally the small intestine