Blood Parasites

Question 1

Answer 1

Anaplasmosis

Question 2

Answer 2

ehrlichiosis

Question 3

Answer 3

Babesiosis

Question 4

Answer 4

Mycoplasma haemofelis

Question 5

Answer 5

Cytauxzoon felis

Question 6

Answer 6

Trypanosoma

Question 7

Answer 7

microfilariae - Heartworm

Question 8

Answer 8

Mycoplasma haemocanis

Question 9

How is anaplasmosis spread?

Answer 9

ticks or flies

Question 10

T or F. Anaplasmosis is very host specific.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

How else can you diagnose anaplasmosis?

Answer 11

Positive Coombs test

Question 12

How is ehrlichiosis transmitted?

Answer 12

Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)

Question 13

What is the most common infectious cause of thrombocytopenia in dogs?

Answer 13

Ehrlichiosis

Question 14

In what cell is anaplasmosis found in?

Answer 14

RBC

Question 15

In what cell is ehrlchiosis found in?

Answer 15

WBC

Question 16

How is babesiosis transmitted

Answer 16

Ixodes scapularis (deer tick)

Question 17

T or F. Babesiosis is not species specific.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

What was mycoplasma haemofelis/haemocanis formally called?

Answer 18

Haemobartonella felis/canis

Question 19

How is mycoplasma haemofelis/haemocanis transmitted?

Answer 19

cat bites, fleas/ticks, mother, iatrogenic

Question 20

In what cell is cytauxzoon felis found in?

Answer 20

RBC

Question 21

How is cytauxzoon felis spread?

Answer 21

ticks

Question 22

How is trypanosoma caused?

Answer 22

African Sleeping Sickness spread by the tsetse fly

Question 23

T or F. Trypanosoma is not host specific.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

How do you diagnose trypansomoa?

Answer 24

Examination of the buffy coat

Question 25

What is the scientific name of heartworm?

Answer 25

Dirofilaria immitis

Question 26

Where is the adult heartworm found?

Answer 26

In the right ventricle and pulmonary arteries

Question 27

How is heartworm transmitted?

Answer 27

bite of infective mosquito

Question 28

What are the offspring of heartworms called?

Answer 28

microfilariae

Question 29

What is the prepatent period of heartworm?

Answer 29

6 - 9 months post infection

Question 30

What does the modified knott's test or commercial filter test for?

Answer 30

microfilariae

Question 31

What does the ELISA test for?

Answer 31

adults and microfilariae

Question 32

What does the blood smear test for? (heartworm related)

Answer 32

microfilariae

Question 33

What does the microhematocrit test for? (heartworm related)

Answer 33

microfilariae

Question 34

What does a negative test mean when diagnosing heartworm disease in felines? Why?

Answer 34

It doesn't rule out heartworm disease because it is an antigen test

Question 35

What does a positive test mean when diagnosing heartworm disease in felines?

Answer 35

Does not mean it has an active infection because it is an antibody test