Species in Arthropods

Question 1

What are two structural features that make arthropods successful in survival?

Answer 1

small size and chitinous exoskeleton

Question 2

What do all viruses have in common?

Answer 2

ssRNA

Question 3

What viruses are under the flavivirus category?

Answer 3

Yellow fever, Dengue fever, St. Louis encephalitis, Zika

Question 4

What viruses are under the togaviruses category?

Answer 4

Venezuelen equine encephalitis and western equine encephalitis

Question 5

What viruses are under the bunyaviruses category?

Answer 5

La Crosse encephalitis and Rift Valley Fever

Question 6

What is the most common virus in colorado?

Answer 6

Colorado Tick Fever

Question 7

What species are considered mites?

Answer 7

Sarcoptes scabiei, Demodex folliculorum, Eutrombicula spp.

Question 8

What is the treatment for Sarcoptes scabiei?

Answer 8

1% benzene hexachloride or 5% permethrin cream

Question 9

What is the common name for these species: Eutrombicula alfreddugesi, Eutrombicula splendens, Trombicula autumnalis

Answer 9

Chigger mites

Question 10

Chigger mites are the vector for what bacteria?

Answer 10

Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

Question 11

What is the common name for Dermacentor variabilis?

Answer 11

American dog tick

Question 12

What is the common name for Dermacentor andersoni?

Answer 12

Rocky Mountain Wood Tick

Question 13

What is the common name for Ixodes scapularis?

Answer 13

Blacklegged or deer tick

Question 14

What is the common name for Rhipicephalus sanguineus?

Answer 14

Brown dog tick

Question 15

What is the common name for Amblyomma maculatum?

Answer 15

Gulf coast tick

Question 16

What is the common name for Amblyomma americanum?

Answer 16

Lone star tick

Question 17

What diseases is Dermacentor variabilis (american dog tick) responsible for?

Answer 17

-Rickettsial pox
-Tularemia
-Rocky Mountain spotted fever
-Colorado tick fever
-Ehrlichiosis

Question 18

What diseases is Dermacentor andersoni responsible for?

Answer 18

-Tulasemia
-Rocky mountain spotted fever
-colorado tick fever

Question 19

What diseases is Ixodes scapularis responsible for?

Answer 19

-Lyme disease
-Babesiosis
-Powassan disease

Question 20

What diseases is Rhipicephalus sanguineus responsible for?

Answer 20

Rocky mountain spotted fever

Question 21

What bacteria does Amblyomma maculatum spread?

Answer 21

Rickettsia parkeri

Question 22

What diseases is Amblyomma americanum responsible for?

Answer 22

-Tularemia
-Ehrlichiosis
-STARI

Question 23

What bacteria causes Rickettsial pox?

Answer 23

Rickettsia akari

Question 24

What bacteria causes Tularemia?

Answer 24

Franscisella tularensis

Question 25

What bacteria causes Rocky mountain spotted fever?

Answer 25

Rickettsia rickettsii

Question 26

What is the treatment for RMSF?

Answer 26

Doxycycline

Question 27

What bacteria causes Lyme disease?

Answer 27

Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 28

What is the treatment for Lyme Disease?

Answer 28

Doxycycline

Question 29

What can be a complication some patients can have when dealing with lyme disease?

Answer 29

Post treatment lyme disease syndrome - auto immune response

Question 30

What disease was named after the town it was identified?

Answer 30

Powassan

Question 31

What is the treatment for Pediculus humanus capitis (head lice)?

Answer 31

Ovicidal or non-ovicidal pediculicide and wash all bedding and clothing

Question 32

What is the treatment for Pthirus pubis?

Answer 32

1% permethrin

Question 33

What bacteria causes typhus?

Answer 33

Rickettsia prowazekii

Question 34

What bacteria causes trench fever?

Answer 34

Bartonella quintano

Question 35

What bacteria causes relapsing fever?

Answer 35

Borrelia recurrentis?

Question 36

What bacteria causes the plague?

Answer 36

Yersinia pestis

Question 37

What disease occurred in the 14th century and took 25 million lives?

Answer 37

Black death (bubonic plague)

Question 38

What is the vector for the plague?

Answer 38

Xenopsylla cheopis

Question 39

What are the 3 clinical forms of the plague?

Answer 39

Bubonic, Pneumonic, and Septicemic

Question 40

What was named after the kimakonde word meaning "that which bends up"?

Answer 40

Chikungunya

Question 41

What is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable encephalitis?

Answer 41

Japanese Encephalitis

Question 42

What virus is caused by the Asian tiger mosquito?

Answer 42

Dengue fever

Question 43

How can zika be transmitted?

Answer 43

-Mosquito bites -pregnant woman to fetus -sex with an infected man -Possibly blood transfusion, organ donation, etc.

Question 44

What are the most common symptoms of zika?

Answer 44

Fever, rash, joint pain, and conjuctivitis (red eyes)

Question 45

How does zika affected pregnancies?

Answer 45

Can cause microcephaly (a birth defect in babies)

Question 46

What autoimmune disease does zika cause?

Answer 46

Guillaine-Barre syndrome (GBS)

Question 47

What is the treatment for zika?

Answer 47

There is no treatment, just treat the symptoms with rest and fluids

Question 48

Who can contract west nile virus?

Answer 48

-Humans -Horses -Birds

Question 49

What viruses do the Aedes spp. transmit?

Answer 49

-zika -dengue -yellow fever -west nile -chikungunya -rift valley fever

Question 50

What viruses do the Anopheles spp. transmit?

Answer 50

Malaria

Question 51

What viruses do the Culex spp. transmit?

Answer 51

-west nile -eastern equine encephalitis -japanese encephalitis