Parasitology Board Review

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Common name for Aelurostrongylus abstrusus

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Cat lung worm

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Treatment for cat lungworm?

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Levamisole

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First host in the life cycle of aelurostrongylus abstrusus

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Snail

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Diagnosis of aelurostrongylus abstrusus

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Larvae in feces have dorsally spined tails

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Babesiosis in dogs and cats is transmitted primarily by ___ and some ___

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Primarily by Rhipicephalus and some Dermacentor

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Babesiosis in cattle is transmitted by ___

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Boophilus

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Common name for Capillaria aerophila

Diagnosis is made by finding ___ in ___

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Respiratory parasite of carnivores

Dx by finding eggs with bipolar plugs in feces

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Common name for Capillaria plica

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Bladder worm - found in kidney, ureter, bladder of cats/dogs

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Common name for cheyletiella

What species is it found in ?

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Walking dandruff - ZOONOTIC

Dogs, cats, rabbits

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Chorioptes bovis causes ___ in cattle

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Chorioptic mange (leg mange) - more prevalent in winter and REPORTABLE since sarcoptic mange is a differential (and zoonotic)

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A worm found in a dog's trachea could be ______ if at the bronchial bifurcation or ______ if in the lung parenchyma

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Filaroides osleri - at bronchial bifurcation
Filaroides hirthi - in lung parenchyma

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How do you identify the cat lungworm or the dog tracheal worm?

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Larvae in respiratory secretions
+/- Baermann
+/- endoscopy

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A worm found in the lung of a dog/cat could be ______ if in the lung parenchyma or _____ if in the nasal sinuses

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Capillaria aerophila - in lung parenchyma
Capillaria boehmi - in nasal sinuses

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The pig lungworm is called _____

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Metastrongylus apri

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The cat/dog lung trematode is called

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Paragonimus kellicotti

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Infection with the lung fluke occurs by ingestion of _______

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A snail or a crawfish where the animal ingests a metacercaria in the IH

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Paragonimus kellicotti can be identified as a ___________ in _______ or _______

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operculated egg in fecal sediment or a respiratory wash

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A worm found in the respiratory tract of a large animal would have the genus name _______

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Dictyocaulus

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Name the species of dictyocaulus found in the cow, small ruminant, and horse

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Cow = viviparus
SR = filaria
Horse = arnfieldi

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The swine kidney worm is called _____

It is diagnosed by finding ____ in _____

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Stephanurus dentatus

Eggs in urine sediment

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The dog heartworm is called _____

It is diagnosed by _____

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Dirofilaria immitis

Wet mount, difil, knott's test, antigen, antibody

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Blood parasites of the dog include _____, _____, and _____

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Trypanosoma cruzi
Babesia canis
Dirofilaria immitis

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The giant kidney worm in dogs is called _____
It is aquired by ingestion of _____

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Dictophyma renale

Infected fish or crayfish

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Diagnosis of dioctophyma renale can be made by finding ______ in _____ or after _____

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Dx by finding an egg in urine sediment or after an abdominal crisis

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The bladder worm is also known as

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Capillaria plica

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A preputial wash from a bull that has a decreased fertility and whose matings often result in abortions may have

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Tritrichomonas foetus

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Diagnosis of tritrichomonas foetus in bulls is made by finding ______ in culture

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Trophozoites

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Ways to diagnose toxoplasma gondii include

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Serology (IgM, IgG)
Histology of tissues from brain or placenta
Fecal flotation in a cat

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Dairy cow abortion can be caused by

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Neospora caninum