Parasitology Kahoots 1-7

How many legs do insects have?

6

T/F: The female mosquito is the only one that sucks blood.

True

T/F: Water is important to the lifecycle of many insects.

True

T/F: Face flies will frequently attack horses in stables

False

Where can you find tsetse fly?

Africa

T/F: Cuterebra can migrate through the brain.

True

This is NOT a class of insects.

Velociraptor

T/F: The new word screw worm is a deadly parasite.

True

This word means to eat dead things.

Sacrophagic

The larva of this fly can be used as a surgical tool.

Blowfly

T/F: Flea feces are just digested blood.

True

How long can an unfed flea survive in the environment?

2 months

How much blood can 75 female fleas remove from an animal per day?

1 ml

T/F: Just one missed treatment of an animal can allow a flea infestation of a house.

True

What species is the primary transmitter of the plaque bacteria to fleas?

Rat

T/F: All ticks are blood-sucking parasites.

True

These are all injuries inflicted by ticks EXCEPT:

Black plaque

T/F: Disease can be transmitted to baby ticks from the mother through the ovaries.

True

T/F: There are both systemic and non-systemic products for flea and tick control.

True

T/F: Mites can remove enough blood to kill some animals.

True

T/F: Only dogs, cats, and humans get lice and mites.

False

Scabies is very easy to find with a skin scrape.

False

T/F: Severely itchy/infected guinea pigs can have seizures.

True

This is the cause of ear mites in dogs and cats.

Otodectes cynotis

T/F: Demodex is an abnormal inhabitant of the skin

False

T/F: Mose lice are host specific.

True

T/F: All lice are biting/chewing lice.

True

T/F: There is no treatment for mites and lice in farm animals

False

T/F: Trypanosomes do NOT require an arthropod vector.

False

How does Trypanosoma move?

Both

This is the etiologic agent of Chagas disease.

T. cruzi

T/F: Chagas disease is easily treated.

False

This is NOT a source of infection for Chagas disease.

Airborne

This is NOT an organ affected by visceral leishmaniasis.

Eye

T/F: Visceral leishmaniasis is spread by the bite of the phlebotomine sandfly.

True

T/F: Dogs commonly develop skin lesions with leishmaniasis.

True

T/F: Trypanasomes are excreted in the saliva of the kissing bug.

False

This is NOT a way you can become infected with giardia.

Aerosol

T/F: The oocysts of Cryptosporidium are very tough.

True

T/F: Cryptosporidium is easy to find on a slide.

False

Why is it hard to diagnose giardia?

Intermittent shedding of cysts

T/F: Bathing your pet will help prevent re-infection of giardia.

True

T/F: Trichomonads do not have a cyst stage.

True

Which tritrichimonad causes venereal disease in cattle?

T. foetus

T/F: In cats, T. foetus causes intestinal infection

True

Which tritrichomonad causes severe large bowel disease in cats?

T. blagburni

T/F: T. blagburni infection is most common in cats housed in high-density populations.

True

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of apicomplexa?

None of these

T/F: Apicomplexa are multi-cellular.

False

T/F: Oocysts must live in the environment for 24-48 hours before they are infective.

False

This is NOT a reason that it is difficult to see crypto under the microscope

They swim off the slide

T/F: Cryptosporidium oocysts are very tough to kill.

True

T/F: Eimeria mainly infects the liver.

False

T/F: The sporulation of the bovine coccidia depends on the temperature and humidity of the environment.

True

T/F: Large numbers of oocysts may be counted in the stool of perfectly healthy hosts.

True

What is the cardinal sign of coccidiosis?

Chronic diarrhea

T/F: There is no reliable disinfectant to kill coccidia in the environment.

True