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| Relationship b/w parasite and host when 1 organism lives in/on another organism of different species for sustenence |
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| Live adults stages inside host |
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| Live adult stages outside of host |
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| takes advantage and lives as parasite w/n host but also can be free-living |
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| where parasite reaches sexual maturity |
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| larval stages/development occur w/n it |
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| no development occurs; just moves it! |
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| carry parasite from host to host; could be an intermediate host; 2 types: biological and mechanical |
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| some changes occur w/n this vector |
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| No development occurs w/n vector |
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| keeps parasite in the environment; perpetuates infection; usually no disease caused in this host |
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| Need multiple hosts (like intermediate host) |
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| another word for monospecific |
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| Stenoxenous; very host specific |
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| Another word for Heterospecific |
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| Euryoxenous; wide host range |
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| Parasitism vs. parasitosis |
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| Parasitism has no disease while parasitosis is infection + disease |
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| What is usual cause of parasitic disease? |
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| What is the ultimate goal of parasite control? |
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| Disruption of transmission! |
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| Where do Ancylostomoidea (Hookworms) live? |
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| Type of diarrhea from hookworms? |
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| Melena--black tarry feces |
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| Black tarry feces from blood digestion |
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| thin shelled and morulated |
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| Infective stage of Hookworms? |
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| Methods of transmission of hookworms |
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1- burrowing
2- Ingesting L3
3- Ingest paratenic host w/ L3
4- Lactogenic |
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| Can hookworms go into hypobiosis? |
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| What is standard txt for hookworms |
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| Where do Ancylostoma caninum live? |
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| How are Ancylostoma tubaeforme transmitted? |
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| Ingestion; ingestion of paratenic host; burrowing; NO lactogenic transfer |
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| Ancylostoma braziliense favorite form of transmission? |
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| Which ancylostoma species is not a voracious bloodsucker? |
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| Bunostomum affect on host? |
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| Voracious bloodsucker in cattle; a few worms can cause major anemia |
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| Ancylostoma; Uncineria; Bunostomum; Globocephalus |
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| Direct--no intermediate or paratenic hosts |
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| How are strongyles transmitted? |
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| Infective stage of Strongyles |
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| Where do strongyles live? |
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| Which strongyles migrate? |
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| Large strongyles (not cyathostomes) |
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| Most pathogenic strongylus spp. |
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| Where does Strongylus vulgaris like to migrate? |
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| Cranial mesenteric artery |
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| thinning of blood vessel wall and bulges and thickening due to migrating Strongylus vulgaris in cranial mesenteric artery |
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| Most common strygulus sp. |
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| Where does strongulus edentatus like to go? |
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| Goes to liver and migrates around and then in peritoneal cavity |
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| Clinical signs of strongylus vulgaris |
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-colic from mgirating
- diarrhea in young
-anemia
-poor coat
-enteritis
-death |
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| Which strongylus sp. isn't common to US |
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| How deworm for Strongylus spp. |
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| Every 5 months for 2 years since shorting PPP = 6 months |
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| Triodontophorus spp. host? |
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| Does Triodontophorus migrate? |
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| Most important parasite in horses today |
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| Cyathostomes (small strongyles) |
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| Clinical signs of cyathostomes? |
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-colic
-diarrhea b/c destroy gut
- cachexia and anorexia
-loss of intestine's absorptive function |
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| corona radiata, red, small buccal cavity |
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| disease from all hypobiotic larvae eruptiong from tissue in gut at once! |
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| What damage is caused by cyathostomes? |
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| Damage from awakening form hypobiosis and emerging simultaneously and destroying mucosa and tissue |
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| interval b/w txt and reappearance of egg shedding |
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| strategic txt of strongyles |
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exploit seasonal patterns of strongyle transmission and get long term relief from infection by timing txts
-deworm horses from Sept-->March and begin again in September |
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| What is Chabertia spp. other name |
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| definitive host of chabertia spp. |
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| Ruminants, mostly sheep and goats |
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| Damage done by Chabertia? |
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| Another name for Oesophagostomum? |
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| Definitive host of Oesophagostomum? |
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| cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, gorillas |
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| where do Oesophagostomum live? |
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| Oesophagostomum species of swine? |
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| What causes damage of Oesophagostomum? |
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| When worms emerge from nodules into large intestines; get diarrhea and allergic response |
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| What is another name for Stephanurus? |
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| What is D.H. of stephanurus spp. |
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| Where do Stephanurus live? |
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| In perirenal fat around kidney and eggs pass in urine |
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| How are eggs of Stephanurus shed? |
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| Where do Staphanurus migrate to? |
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| From blood to liver to kidney fat! |
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| Where do Staphanurus like to migrate? |
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| In the liver; causes lots of problems before they go to perirenal fat. |
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| Main clinical sign of Staphanurus infection? |
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| Infective stage of Trichostrongyloides |
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| Another way to describe Trichostrongyle infectins? |
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| GIN-Gastrointestinal nematodes |
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| Where Trichostrongylus axei live? |
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| Where do Ostertagia live? |
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| What is most important parasite of cattle? |
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| What is infective stage of Ostertagia? |
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| What is characteristic sign in necrospy of Ostertagia infection? |
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| Moroccan leather lining of Abomasum from worms emerging from parietal glands |
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| Who causes moraccon leather in abomasum? |
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| Where do larvae emerge from in Ostertagia infections? |
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| Clincal signs of Ostertagia infection? |
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| Severe diarrhea; weight loss; bottle jaw; anemia; anorexia; loss of digestive function |
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| Type I ostertagia infection |
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| in calves in 1st season on pasture; get diarrhea; no arrested development |
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| Type II ostertagia infection |
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| result of larvae in hypobiosis waking up at same time; happens normally in older cows; see in the summer/early spring in the North and fall in the South. |
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| When see Ostertagia infection in Tn? |
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| When see Ostertagia infection in the north |
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| When give dewormer for Ostertagia for cattle living in the south? |
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| Mid summer to kill hypobiotic larvae before emerge in early fall! |
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| Ostertagia and cyathostomes are both a result of large numbers of larvae resuming development and emerging? T or F. |
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| Trichostrongyloid of sheep and goats? |
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| Parasites found in abomasum of ruminants |
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| H-O-T. Haemonchus, Ostertagia, Trichostrongylus axei |
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| Another name for Haemonchus. |
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| What is pathophysiology of Haemonchus? |
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| Where does Haemonchus live? |
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| Abomasum in ruminants, mostly sheep! |
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| What is most important parasite of sheep and goats? |
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Definition
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| Types of eggs seen with Haemonchus? |
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| Thin shelled and morulated and see TONS of them! |
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| Clinical signs of Haemonchus infection? |
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Definition
| severe anemia; bottle jaw from hypoproteinemia; high fecal egg count; no diarrhea b/c lose so much blood |
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| routine check for anemia in sheep and goats to determine if need txt for Haemonchus infection; do this instead of overtreating herd and breeding resistant worms |
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| Infective stage of Haemonchus? |
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| Where does Cooperia sp. live? |
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Definition
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| Which worm has large football shaped eggs? |
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Definition
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| What is the Payton Manning worm? |
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Definition
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| Most important parasite in severely anemic lambs? |
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Definition
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| Host of hyostrongylus sp. |
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Definition
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| Where do Hyostrongylus live? |
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Definition
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| What is the vomiting worm? |
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| Where do Ollulanus sp. live? |
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Definition
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| What is live cycle of Ollulanus? |
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| Ovoviviparous-whole life cycle occurs w/n host! |
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| Clinical signs of Ollulanus sp. infection? |
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| gastric distress-vomiting! |
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| How Ollulanus sp. transmitted? |
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| cats eat vomit with worms in it. |
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| How ID Ollulanus infection? |
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| Look in vomit, gastric lavage |
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| Infective stage of Metastrongrloidea (Lungworms) |
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| What shed by host of Metastrongyloidea |
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| leave as larvae, not eggs! |
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| How diagnose lungworm infection? |
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| Baermann's apparatus or zinc sulfate float |
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| Yes, go from ingestion into intestines into lymphatics to respiratory pathway |
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| What is "Husk" a good sign of? |
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Definition
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| how prevent Dictyocaulus infection? |
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Definition
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| HOw do horses get Dictyocaulus infections? |
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| from donkeys! D. arnfieldi |
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| Clinical signs of Dictyocaulus infection |
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| coughing, edemia in lungs, HUSK (gasping breathing) |
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| How DX dictyocaulus infection? |
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Definition
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| How do sheep and goats get Muellerius? |
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Definition
| From ingesting of snails/slugs with L3s |
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| Where do Muellerius worms live? |
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| In lung parenchyma of sheep and goats |
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| What physical characteristics do Muellerius worms have? |
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| What is lungworm of horse? |
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| How do cats get infected with Aelurostrongylus? |
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| ingestion of paratenic hosts (amphibians, reptiles, birds, rodents) that have ingested snails and slugs |
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| How physically ID Aelurostrongylus infections |
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Definition
| kinky tail and spine, like Muellerius |
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| Who has kinky tails and spines? |
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Definition
| Muellerius sp., Aelurostrongylus sp., and Angiostrongylus vasorum |
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| Clinical signs of Aelurostrongylus infection? |
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Definition
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| Where do Aelurostrongylus sp. live in cat? |
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Definition
| pulmonary artery, lung parenchyma, bronchi/trachea |
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Definition
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| Where do Filaroides sp. live? |
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Definition
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| How infected with Filaroides |
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Definition
| dog ingests larvae in feces |
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| What is infective stage of Filaroides |
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Definition
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| What is lungworm of pigs? |
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Definition
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| What do pigs shed when infected with Metastrongylus? |
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Definition
| Thick shelled larvated eggs, not larvae like the rest of the lungworms! |
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| Which parasite is the exception to the larvae shedding in Metastrongyloides |
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Definition
| Metastrongylus-swine lungworm |
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| What is the "French/Fox lungworm" |
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Definition
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| How physically ID Angiostrongylus vasorum? |
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Definition
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| Clinical signs of Angiostrongylus vasorum? |
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Definition
| Hypertension, coughing, dyspnea, exercise intolerance--looks like Dirofilaria immitis infection! |
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| Where find Angiostrongylus vasorum? |
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Definition
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| Which superfamily are the facultative parasites? |
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Definition
| Rhabditoidea - Rhabditis, Halicephalobus, Strongyloides |
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Definition
| Thin shelled, small and larvated |
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| How Rhabditis enter host? |
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Definition
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| Clinical sign of rhabditis sp.? |
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Definition
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| Where does Halicephalobus live? |
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Definition
| get in skin of horse and goes to blood and can get to kidney, or go to head and jaw, and to brain and get neuro problems |
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| How Halicephalobus get in host? |
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Definition
| puncture so it can enter skin |
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Definition
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| Where do Strongyloides live? |
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Definition
| Small intestine of mammals, birds, and reptiles |
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| What is the intestinal threadworm? |
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Definition
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| How Strongyloides transmitted? |
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Definition
| Ingest L3, penetrate skin, lactogenic transfer |
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| How Strongyloides transmitted? |
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Definition
| Ingest L3, penetrate skin, and lactogenic transfer |
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| What disease caused by Strongyloides? |
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Definition
| Parasite of VERY young, invade small intestines, get diarrhea |
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| Is Strongyloides zoonotic? |
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Definition
| Yes, cutaneous larval migrans |
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Definition
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| Unique physical characteristic of Ascarid |
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Definition
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Definition
| Thick albuminous shell with 1 cell inside |
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| What is infective stage of Ascarid? |
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Definition
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| Yes, can cause visceral larval migrans |
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Definition
| Yes, go to liver and lungs and end up in small intestines |
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Definition
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| What are eggs of Ascaris suum like? |
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Definition
| Thick, mamillated egg (big bumps along edge) |
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| What is characteristic sign of Ascaris suum? |
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Definition
| Milk spots in liver from migrating larvae! can be lethal |
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| What is pathophysiology of ascaris suum? |
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Definition
| Migration in liver! get milk spots; can go to lungs and get respiratory signs as well |
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| How Ascaris suum transmitted? |
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Definition
| Ingestion of L2 w/n egg; NOT lactogenic |
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| What causes milk spots on liver? |
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Definition
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| What is host of Parascaris equorum? |
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Definition
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Definition
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| Where Parascaris equorum live? |
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Definition
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| Clinical signs of Parascaris equorum? |
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Definition
| colic, malnutrition, and diarrhea- can get rupture of colon |
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| When deworm for Parascaris? |
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Definition
| start at 2 month old and give every 2 months for 2 years! do every 2 months so dont get too big |
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Definition
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| Physical ID of toxacara cati? |
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Definition
| cervical alae looks like arrow head! |
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| What kind of transmission for toxocara cati? |
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Definition
| NO prenatal; sometimes lactogenic, paratenic hosts crucial; ingestion of L2 larvated egg |
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| Clinical signs of Toxocara cati |
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Definition
| diarrhea, potbelly, poor hair coat, malnutrition, vomiting |
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Definition
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| clinical signs of Toxocara canis? |
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Definition
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| Types of transmission of toxocara canis? |
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Definition
| Ingestion of larvated L2 eggs, paratenic hosts, and cross placental, so decreases PPP to about 2 weeks |
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| Is Toxocara canis zoonotic? |
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Definition
| Yes, Visceral larval migrans and ocular larval migrans |
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Term
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Definition
| Cats, dogs, and wild cats and dogs |
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| What do Toxascaris eggs look like? |
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Definition
| eggs have NO pits and wavy inner membrane |
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Term
| clinical sign of Toxascaris? |
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Definition
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Definition
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| Who see Toxascaris in mostly? |
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Definition
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Definition
| ingestion of eggs, go to GI and Large Intestines, hatch, molt, lay eggs around anus, and get ingested |
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Definition
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| Who has obvious bulb on end of esophagus? |
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Definition
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Definition
| thin shelled, assymetrical |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Infective stage of Oxyuris? |
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Definition
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Term
| Clinical sign of Oxyuris? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| tape around anus; put under microscope and examine |
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Term
| Where does Probstymayria live? |
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Definition
| IN horses' large intestine |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Pinworm of sheep and goats |
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Definition
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Term
| Common name of Trichinelloidea |
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Definition
| Whip worms/ capillary worms |
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Term
| Infective stage of Trichinelloidea/Whip worms? |
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Definition
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Term
| Physical characteristic of Trichinelloidea to ID |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| trichinelloidea/whip worms |
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Term
| Eggs of Trichinelloidea/whip worms? |
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Definition
| eggs w/ polar plugs; symmetrical |
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Term
| What worm if see copulatory bursa in dog? |
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Definition
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Term
| What worm w/ copulatory bursa in horse? |
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Definition
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Term
| What worm with copulatory bursa in cattle? |
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Definition
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Term
| Life cycle of trichinelloidea? |
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Definition
| matures in cecum, lay eggs, pass in feces, larvate in environments, ingest larvated egg, hatch in stomach, go to SI,burrow and molt, and mature in cecum |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| how resistant are Trichuris eggs? |
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Definition
| very resistant! live for years! |
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Term
| What Trichuris does in pigs? |
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Definition
| causes severe diarrhea! stunts growth; very bloody diarrhea |
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Term
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Definition
| straining to urinate/defecate |
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Definition
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Definition
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| Clinical signs of Trichuris vulpis |
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Definition
| bloody stool, flatulence, tesemus, hematochezia, LARGE BOWEL D+ |
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Definition
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Term
| Which worms have eggs w/ polar plugs? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| mustelids, cats, swine, racoons--mostly mink in stomach or intestine |
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Term
| Where capillaria aerophila live? |
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Definition
| lung of dog, cat, fox, raccoons |
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Term
| infective stage of Capillaria? |
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Definition
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Term
| Clinical signs of Capillaria aerophila? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Where Capillaria bohmi live? |
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Definition
| Nasal passage of dog and fox |
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Term
| Clinical sign of Capillaria bohmi? |
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Definition
| sneezing, sniffling, shaking head |
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Term
| Which capillaria do you look for in urine? |
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Definition
| Capillaria plica, Capillaria feliscati |
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Term
| Which Capillaria do you check for in fecal? |
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Definition
| Capillaria aerophila, Capillaria bohmi, Capillaria putorri, Capillaria hepatica |
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Term
| What is bladder worm of dog? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is bladder worm of cat |
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Definition
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Term
| What is Capillaria of liver? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is life cycle of Caillaria hepatica? |
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Definition
| lives in liver, lay eggs, in parenchyma of liver,stay in liver, can't become adult b/c O2 too low so have to wait for host to die |
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Term
| What is physical characteric of Filaroide? |
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Definition
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Term
|
Definition
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| PPP of Difilaria immitis? |
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Definition
| 6 months from infection to MF |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Infective stage of Difiliaria immitis? |
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Definition
|
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Term
| average number of heartworms when disease? |
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Definition
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Term
| Clinical signs of Difilaria immitis? |
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Definition
| COUGHING, EXERCISE INTOLERANCE, DYSPNEA; weight loss, anemia, heart enlargement, hypertension |
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| Why put heartworm disease treated dogs excercise restriction? |
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Definition
| prevent pulmonary emboli and thrombosis |
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| Txt for Difiliaria immitis? |
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Definition
| Immiticde 2.5 mg/kg twice w/ 24 hours apart for 90% efficacy; or 3 injections for 98% efficacy but wait 1-2 months b/w 1st and 2nd injection |
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| Heartworm test of choice for dog? |
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Definition
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| What causes pulmonary thromboemboli in heartworm treated dogs? |
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Definition
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| how check for MF for difilaria immitis? |
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Definition
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| What does heartworm antigen test check for? |
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Definition
| female antigen from uterus and if have lots of males, could detect as well |
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| How are dogs infected by show up MF negative? |
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Definition
1- immature worms
2- only males or females so no mating
3- heart worm prophylaxis
4- immunological occult (make anitbodies and tie up MF so don't circulate MFs) |
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| When get + serology results for heartworm test if positive? |
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Definition
| about 5 months (and about 6 months for MF) |
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| What reasons explain a negative serology test when actually positive? |
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Definition
1- immature worms
2- males only
3- too few worms
4- antigen sequestration |
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| Where are adult heartworms found in assymptomatic animals? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Whenever have + antigen test to see what is going on |
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Term
| How diagnose heartworm disease? |
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Definition
| fecal; x rays for right heart enlargement, coughing, serology, EKG, CBC, arteriogram |
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Term
| Life cycle of Dirofilaria immitis? |
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Definition
| females produce microfilaria; mosquito ingests; Mf develop into L3 w/n mosquito; mosquito bites and transfers to DH, molt and migrate thru CT to pulmonary artery as immature adults and mature |
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Term
| How does heartworm prophylaxis work? |
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Definition
| reach back effect--kills L3 and L4s |
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Term
| What age start heartworm prophylaxis? |
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Definition
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| How confirm successful heartworm treatment? |
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Definition
| do antigen tests 6 months after last treatment |
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Term
| What does "soft kill" fo rheartworms mean? |
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Definition
| Ivermectin as an adulticide; works on worms 8 months and younger; not good b/c always have dying worms which is cause of pathophysiology; can option if can't afford other txt |
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| What use to kill microfilariae |
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Definition
| use ivermectin if TONS b/c slower, or Milbemycin if not so many; may need to pretreat w/ steroids to rpevent shock! |
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Term
| Do cats have circulating MF w/ D. immitis? |
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Definition
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Term
| clinical signs of dirofilaria in cats? |
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Definition
| dyspnea, coughing, vomiting, arteries inflammed, lungs inflamed |
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Term
| What test to check for heartowrms in cats? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Heartworm Associated Respiratory Disease |
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Term
| TXt for heartworms in cats |
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Definition
| Prednisone mainly, can do surgery |
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Term
| how diagnose heartowrms in cats? |
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Definition
-do antibody and antigen test
-respiratory disease
- cardiac disease
-chronic vomiting
- exposure to mosquitoes |
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Term
| What does antibody test tell you in cats? |
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Definition
| That they are exposed and have been infected! not necessarily that they have adult worms but have seen L3s! |
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Term
| What is commonly mistaken for dirofilaria microfilariae |
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Definition
| Acanthocheilonema reconditum (Dipetalonema) |
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