Clinical Procedures - Internal and External Parasitology Flashcards
Rickettsia are transmitted how?
Blood sucking vectors - arthropods
Anaplasma marginale found where?
As a single dot at margin of RBC
Ehrlichia canis found where?
In WBC
Anaplasma marginale type of parasite?
Rickettsia
Ehrlichia canis type of parasite?
Rickettsia
Giardia canis type of parasite?
Protozoa - intestinal
Coccidia type of parasite?
Protozoa - intestinal
Babesia type of parasite?
Protozoa - blood
Giardia found where?
Contaminated water.
Hard to find on fecal float, use direct smear with iodine or other stain
Coccidia found where?
Pet stores, puppy mills, shelters, overcrowded situations
Babesia cause what?
Hemolytic anemia
How to diagnose babesia?
Differential smear
How to diagnose trematodes?
Sedimentation not fecal float. They are heavy!
Trematode egg appearance?
Large, oval, single operculum
Nanophytes salmoncola causes what?
Salmon poisoning in dogs and cats - carries neoricketsia helmintheca
Fasciola hepatica is what?
Liver flukes found in cattle
Paragonimus kellicotti is what?
Lung flukes found in cats and dogs
Trematodes have what intermediate hosts?
Larval stage is found in snails and fish
Cestodes have what intermediate hosts?
Larval stage is found athropods, fish, and mammals
Dipylidium caninum is what?
Flea tapeworm of cats and dogs
Taenia pisiformis is what?
Rabbit/rodent tapeworm of cats and dogs
Examples of ascarids?
Toxocara Canis/Cati and Toxascaris leonina