Case Studies Flashcards
emma ate raw fish, find scaly round parasites
Heterophyes heterophyes
A dog has injested raw salmon and developed rickettsial diease
Nanophyetus salmincola
Ants are seen climing to the tops of plants after ingesting a slime ball, ready to be eaten by cattle
Dicrocoelium dendriticum “lancet fluke”
hemorrhaging in cattle, dies, cut open host and pink fleshy worms found in gut
Paramphistomum cervi
- liver failure and death in Asian elephants
- anemia, weight loss, edema
Fasciola jacksoni
- farmed fish swim in circles when disturbed or feeding
- high mortality in young
- survivors have damage to cranium and vertebrae
Myxobolus cerebralis “whirling disease”
- fish in aquarium with white pustules
- gills clogged with mucus, impairing ability to breath
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis
- Pigeons restless, loss of appetite
- lugs congested, anemia
- take blood sample, see gametes
Haemoproteus
- ingested raw/undercooked pig
- cut open mean and find tissue cysts
Sarcocystis
- pregnant woman with a can ingests food after cleaning up litterbox
- personality changes, swollen head of baby, calcification
Toxoplasma gondii
- chicken ingested contaminated feed water
- has bloody diarrhea, dying tissue in GI tract, clotted blood clog secum
- listless
- no effective treatment once infection is established
Eimeria tenella
- dog ate tick
- weight loss, fever, lethargy, loss of mobility in hind limbs
- lives in southern united states
Hepatozoan americanum
- girl swimming in pool with cut in eye from contact lenses
- developed keratitis (inflammation/whitening of cornea and ulcers) as well as chronic skin condition
Acanthamoeba
- farmer snorts water up nose from warm lake
- develops high fever
- confusion, hallucinations
- taste and smell, nausea vomiting, headache
Naegleria fowleri
