Ciliates

Question 1

What are the ciliates we are concerned with?

Answer 1

Balatidium coli
Neobalatidium coli
Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

Question 2

Balatidium coli is ubiquitous in _________

Answer 2

Swine

Question 3

What is needed for infection of Balatidium coli?

Answer 3

Water contaminated with pig feces

Question 4

What is the life cycle of Balatidium coli?

Answer 4

It is direct; trophozoite is in the colon lumen.

Thick walled cyst is passed in the feces; fecal-oral transmission

Question 5

Neobalatidium coli is see in what?

Answer 5

Primates

Question 6

What signs are seen in animals affected with Neonbalatidium coli?

Answer 6

Ulcerative colitis, with chronic diarrhea to blood dysentary

Question 7

__________ is known as “ich” or white spot disease. It is seen in _______

Answer 7

Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

Fish

Question 8

Ichthyophthirius multifiliis is seen as ___________

Answer 8

white spots on the gills

Question 9

What would you treat if you had fish suffering from Ichthyophthirius multifiliis?

Answer 9

You would treat the free swimming tomites, as the cysts are not susceptible to Tx

Question 10

How long do the tomites of Ichthyophthirius multifiliis survive before they need to find a host?

Answer 10

48 hours