parasite - exam 4 general names

Paragonimus kellicoti

Lung fluke ~ from uncooked crayfish

Hetrobilharzia Americana

Canine blood fluke - paired adult worms, ‘swimmers itch”

Nanophyetus samicola

Salmon poisoning fluke - causes disease by vectoring Neorickettsia helminthoeca- like parvo

Macrocanthorhyncus hirudinaceus

Swine acanthocephala - mistaken for tapeworms

Platyhosomum fastosum

Liver poisoning fluke - adult lives in bile duct& gall bladder

Eurytrema Procyonis

Raccoon pancreatic fluke -

Alaria spp

Has infective larval stage - mesocercaria - lactogenic transmission

Fasicola hepatica

Liver fluke (livestock) - liver disease/bottle jaw- clorsulon-tx - fibrosis of liver

Fasciolodies Magna

Deer liver fluke

Dicrocoelium dendriticum

Lancet liver fluke - ant neuro IH -

Paramphistomum sp

Rumen fluke- adult not pathogenic- larvae in duodenum pathogenic (plug feeding, hypoproteinemia)- no good tx

Oncicola canis

Si of coyotes, foxes, bobcats,no clinical disease

Prothenorchis elegans

Primates - IH - cockroaches - perientonitis from penetration of proboscis

Giardia

Protozoa- flagella, waterborne, cyst immediately infective, reproduce through binary fission, can be asymptomatic or symptomatic

Tritrichomonas blagburni

Protozoan- large intestine of cat, chronic D+, no fda tx, diagnosis by fecal smear, no environmentally resistant cyst

Tritrichomonas foetus

• Flagellate protozoan parasite in the reproductive tract of cattle, test semen (male asymptomatic of course)

African Trypanosomiasis

African sleeping disease, spread by bite of infected fly (anterior station), Depressederythropoiesis

• Hyperplasiabonemarrowandspleen

• Erythrophagocytosis b/c trypanosome antigens attach to RBC

Trypanosoma cruzi

Chaga’s disease, kissing bugs poop in your eye balls 🙂 , vector borne/non vector borne, no treatment v bad

Leishmania sp.

Parasites infecting macrophages of vertebrate hosts, transmission by sand fly bites, severe cutaneous disease of dogs, tx is long and difficult Leishmaniasp.

– Visceral & muco‐cutaneous disease in people & pets

– Vector borne transmission, direct transmission suspected

Cryptosporidium spp.

waterborne, coccidia, unresponsive to anticoccidial drugs, dairy calves 1-3 weeks, reduces brush border, can be asymptomatic / symptomatic, ooccysts are immediately infective and resistant in environment

Eimeria sp.

direct 4 sporocysts w/2 sporozoites, D+ associated w destruction of enterocytes by oocysts,