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Ctenocephalides felis
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Cat flea - dog, cat, ferret, ruminant, etc
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Cat flea life cycle
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Eggs: 2 days
Larvae: 6 days Pupae: 6 days - months Minimum 2 weeks. |
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Echidnophaga gallinacea
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Stick tight flea of chickens
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Anoplura
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Sucking lice
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Mallophaga
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Biting lice
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Lice life cycle
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3 week minimum, all on the host.
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Diptera
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Nonbiting flies
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Musca domestica
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House fly
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Life Cycle of Musca domestica
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2 weeks
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Musca autumnalis
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Face fly
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Moraxella bovis
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Bovine pinkeye - spread by Musca autumnalis.
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Haematobia irritans
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Horn fly
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Stomaxys calcitrans
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Stable fly
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Tabanidae
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Horse and deer flies
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Simulium
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Black flies, buffalo gnats
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Culicoides
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No seeums, midges
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Calliphorids
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Blow flies
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Sarcophagids
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Flesh flies
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Cochliomyia
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Screw worms
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Where are Cochliomyia eggs laid?
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In living tissue!
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Gastrophilus
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Horse bots
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How long do Gastrophilus bots live in the horse stomach?
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10 - 12 months
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Hypoderma bovis lineatum
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Cattle grubs
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Cuterebra
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Rodent bots
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Oestrus
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Nasal bots of small ruminants
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Hippoboscids
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Bloodsucking flies; sheep keds
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Phlebotamine
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sand flies
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Hemiptera
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True bugs
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Cimex
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Bed bugs
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Triatomid
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Kissing bugs
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Sarcoptes scabei
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Sarcoptic mite of dogs
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Notoedres cati
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Sarcoptic mite of cats
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Knemidicoptes
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Sarcoptic mite of poultry, pet birds
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Psoroptes ovis
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psoroptic mite of ruminants
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Psoroptes cuniculi
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Psoroptic mite of rabbits (occasionally alpacas, goats, horses)
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Chorioptes
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Psoroptic mite of ruminants, horses
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Otodectes cynotis
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Ear mite of dogs, cats, ferrets (psoroptic mite)
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Chelytiella
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Walking dandruff mite of dogs, cats, rabbits
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Trombiculids
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Chiggers, harvest mites
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Mesostigmatids
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A type of mite including the red poultry mite
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Ornithonyssus sylvarium
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A mesostigmatid mite, the northern fowl mite
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Dermanyussus gallinae
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The red poultry mite
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Argasidae
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soft ticks
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Otobius megnini
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The spinose ear tick - a soft tick
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Ixodidae
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Hard ticks
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Dermacentor variabilis
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American Dog Tick
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Amblyomma americanum
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Lone Star Tick
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Ticks transmitting Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
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Dermacentor variablis, Rhipicephalus anguineous
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Ixodes scapularis
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Lyme disease tick, deer tick
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Rhipicephalus sanguineous
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Brown dog tick
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Amblyomma maculatum
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Gulf Coast Tick
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Rhipicephalus Boophilus annulatus
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Texas Cattle Fever Tick
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Which species of tick is the only one to reproduce indoors?
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Rhipicephalus sanguineous (Brown dog tick)
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Phylum Apicomplexa
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Coccidia
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Isospora
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Coccidia of dogs, cats, pigs - one host. One oocyst has 2 sporocysts with 4 sporozoites each
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Eimeria
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Coccidia of cattle, chickens. One host. One oocyst = 4 sporocysts with 2 sporozoites each
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Hepatic Coccidia
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Found in rabbits, from Eimeria zuernil
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Definitive host of Toxoplasma gondii
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Cats
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Bradyzoite
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The tissue cyst form of T. gondii, N. caninum
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Neospora caninum
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Coccidia of dogs (definitive host), cattle. Obligated to have an intermediate host.
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Cyclospora
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Coccidia of humans. 2 sporocysts, each with 2 sporozoites.
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Cryptosporidium parvum
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Affects young dairy calves, humans, very young mice.
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Cryptosporidium hominis
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Human crypto
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Sarcocystis
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2 host coccidia of horses, carnivores, omnivores
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Sarcocystis neurona
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Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis
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Sarcomastigophora
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Phylum of flagellates that undergo longitudinal binary fission
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Giardia lamblia
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A mucosal flagellate: humans (A,B), dogs (C,D), cats (F)
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Tritrichomonas foetus
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A flagellate causing abortions in cattle, diarrhea in cats. NO CYST STAGE.
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Leishmania infantum
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Canine visceral leishmaniasis - fox hounds, humans.
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Amastigotes (Leishmania)
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Leishmania in mammal reticuloepithelial cells and macrophages
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Promastigotes (Leishmania)
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Leishmania in sand fly pharynx
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Trypanosoma cruzi
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American trypanosomiasis - dogs, humans, wild animals, mostly in Tx.
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Trypomastigotes (T. cruzi)
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T. cruzi entering macrophages in the heart, brain, esophagus, colon
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Amastigotes (T. cruzi)
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Form of T. cruzi that multiplies in the host, lives in tissue.
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Ciliophora
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Phylum of ciliates - divide by binary fission. Only clinically important in fish, contain a macronucleus.
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Balantidium coli
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Ciliate protozoan of pigs, primates - rarely pathogenic.
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Ichthyopthirius multifilis
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Ciliate in fish, "Ich."
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