Aquatic Zoonotic Situations

Question 1

What are foodborne diseases the result of?

Answer 1

ingestion of foodstuffs contaminated with microorganisms or chemicals

Question 2

What are environmental diseases?

Answer 2

diseases that can be directly attributed to environmental factors

Question 3

What is anthroopozoonosis?

Answer 3

transmission from vertebrates to humans

Question 4

What is cyclozoonoses?

Answer 4

zoonosis that requires two different vertebrate hosts

Question 5

What is metazoonoses?

Answer 5

zoonosis that requires invertebrate and vertebrate hosts

Question 6

What is saprozoonoses?

Answer 6

zoonosis that requires a vertebrate host and an environmental factor

Question 7

What are some sources of aquatic zoonoses?

Answer 7

drinking water, food, water body uses (swimming), coastal/other aquatic zones, pets, and veterinary practice

Question 8

What lesions does mycobacterium cause?

Answer 8

nodules and ulcerations

Question 9

What aquatic species are associated with Mycobacterium spp. spread?

Answer 9

zebra fish

Question 10

What lesions/signs do the Vibrio spp. cause?

Answer 10

septicemia, gastrointestinal, otitis media, foodborne illness

Question 11

What aquatic species are associated with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae spread?

Answer 11

Cod and herring

Question 12

How is Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae spread from fish to humans?

Answer 12

from the mucus of fish or via handling injuries

Question 13

What does the Streptococcus species cause in relation to handling fish?

Answer 13

cellulitis, endocarditis

Question 14

What aquatic animal is associated with the spread of Brucella ceti?

Answer 14

cetaceans

Question 15

What aquatic animal is associated with the spread of Brucella pinnipedialsis?

Answer 15

pinnipeds

Question 16

What does a BA light colony indicate (bacterial species)?

Answer 16

Aeromonas sp.

Question 17

What does a BA dark colony indicate (bacterial species)?

Answer 17

Shewanella sp.

Question 18

What does BYC light colony indicate (bacterial species)?

Answer 18

non-hemolytic

Question 19

What does BYC dark colony indicate (bacterial species)?

Answer 19

Listonella anguilaria

Question 20

What are the type of aquatic parasitic infectious agent?

Answer 20

Protozoa
Cestodes
Trematodes
Nematodes

Question 21

What is the fish tapeworm?

Answer 21

Diphyllobothrium latum

Question 22

What is the salmon tapeworm

Answer 22

Diphyllobothrium dendriticum

Question 23

How can humans be infected with trematodes?

Answer 23

from eating raw or undercooked fish

Question 24

What is ciguatera?

Answer 24

a fish born toxin that causes GI/neuromuscular disease

Question 25

What is brevotoxin?

Answer 25

a toxin caused by Ptychodiscus brevis that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning

Question 26

What are the symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning?

Answer 26

GI/neuromuscular disease

Coughing, spasm, rhinorrhea, watery eyes

Question 27

What is scomboid?

Answer 27

poisoning from any processed fish that resembles histamine poisoning

Question 28

What aquatic health hazards are indicator organisms in human food?

Answer 28

E. coli, entercocci, Salmonella, Streptococcus sp, Staphylococcus, Clostridia

Question 29

What aquatic health hazards are indicator organisms in animal food?

Answer 29

Salmonella

Question 30

What aquatic health hazards are indicator organisms in fish food?

Answer 30

Coliforms, fecal coliforms, enterococci, and Salmonella-Shigella agar candidates