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33 Cards in this Set
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Order ____ is represented by small wingless insects. |
Anoplura |
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The thorax is shaped as trapezium in ____ and consists of three merged segments. |
Pediculus humanus capitis |
Head louse |
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Location of pediculus humanus capitis is ____ |
Hairy head areas |
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There are clear visible incisures in abdomen area called festoons in ____ |
Pediculus humanus capitis |
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The posterior end of females is spilt and males is curved in ____ |
Pediculus humanus capitis |
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Females have two falcate gonopodes and males have a triangle shaped copulation organ in _____ |
Pediculus humanus capitis |
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Using mobile claw which is shaped as a niper the head louse cab grip tightly on ____ |
Hair |
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The head lice are obligate parasites and causes disease ____ |
Pediculosis capitis |
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The ___ lice is vector of vector borne diseases like epidemic typhus and lice borne relapsing fever. |
Head (pediculus humanus capitis) |
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_____ is the agent of epidemic typhus |
Rickettsia prowazeki |
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Rickettsia prowazeki (bacteria) gets into ____ of louse along with blood of infected person |
Stomach |
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The agent for lice borne relapsing fever is ____ |
Spirochaete (Borrelia recurrentis) |
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Spirochaete enters the louse's ____ through blood of infected person. |
Haemolymph |
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Location of Pediculus humanus humanus in human body is ____ |
Live in seams of clothing and folds of underwear |
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____ has thin and long antennae and superficial incisures and most pointed gonopods. |
Pediculus humanus humanus |
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The ___ lice are agents of pediculosis corporis |
Pediculosis humanus humanus (body lice) |
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Symptoms like skin itching, pigmented spots, bite points are due to the lice ____ |
Pediculosis humanus humanus (body louse) |
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Symptoms like severe itching of head, scalp, hair sticking together are due to the lice _____ |
Pediculus humanus capitis |
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Phthirus pubis is found in ____ |
Hair in public area (also eyelashes, eyebrows, beard and mustache) |
Pubis/crab louse |
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These lice have robust claws needed to cling on coarse body hair. Their body is wide and short and abdomen warts are present. |
Pthirus pubis (pubis louse) |
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Phthirus pubis is agent of disease ____ |
Phthiriasis |
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Symptoms of ___ is itching of pubic and groin areas and bluish spots surrounded by pale skin |
Phthiriasis |
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This lice can be transmitted through sexual contact. |
Phthirus pubis |
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Diagnosis of phthiriasis and pediculosis is a) _____ and treatment is through b) ____ |
a) Demonstration of insects and nits in appropriate areas. b) Destruction of lice |
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The body of ___ is laterally flattened, light yellow or dark brown colour, has bristles and is wingless. |
Pulex irritans (human flea) |
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These species have jumping legs and body is covered with chitinous scales |
Pulex irritans (human flea) |
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Development in fleas occurs by complete or incomplete metamorphosis? |
Complete |
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Development in fleas occurs by complete or incomplete metamorphosis? |
Complete |
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Larva of ___ is white in colour and consumes decaying organic number and turns into chrysalis (pupa) |
Flea |
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Flea has a sensory plate on abdomen called ____ |
Pygidum or sensilium |
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___ are a vector of plague, tukaremia, endemic typhus. This specie also serves as intermediate host for hymenolepis nana. |
Fleas |
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Agent for plague is ____ and natural reservoirs of plague are ____ |
Bacilli, rodents |
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____ is a facultative transmissive disease caused by fleas. |
Plague |
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