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Dog And Cat Nematodes Flashcards

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What do spirocerca lupi worms do to the esophagus?

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Causes nodules that can cause obstruction

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Physaloptera sp.

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Stomach worm

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Clinical signs of stomach worms?

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Vomiting, dark colored stools

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What are stomach worm identification similar to?

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Toxocara canis and Cato but lighter

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True roundworms?

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Toxocara canis and cati, toxascarsis leonina

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Looks like spaghetti?

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Toxocara canis or roundworms

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7
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How are roundworms transmitted?

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Ingestion, transplacental, transmammary, through soil

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Symptoms of roundworm in dogs?

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Dry hair coat, pot belly, thin looking (with pot belly), loose stool, puppies compete for food, dry cough

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99% of puppies have these.

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Toxocara canis (roundworms)

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10
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How do you diagnose toxocara canis?

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Fecal observation, observation of adult worms

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Toxocara cati?

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Cat roundworms

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12
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Difference between feline and canine roundworms?

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Center of ova is more filled in, darker in color (feline)

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How is toxocara cati transmitted?

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Transmammary, ingestion, through soil (no transplacentally)

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Toxascaris leonina?

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Roundworms of dogs and cats.

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15
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Is not zoonotic.

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Toxascaris leonina

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16
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What happens during human toxocariasis?

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Visceral larval migrans, ocular larval migrans (very common in children)

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17
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How long is the life span of an adult worm?

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2-4 years

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18
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What is the incubation period of roundworms?

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4 weeks

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How many eggs can one female roundworm produce?

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100,000-200,000 per day

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Symptoms of human roundworms?

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Inflammation of lungs and retina, enlarged liver, nasal discharge

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Treatment options for animal roundworms?

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Pyrantal pamoate (strongid) ivermectin, piperzine, fendbendazole (Panacur)

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How can we control worms?

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Dewormers all puppies, regular fecal exams, sanitation

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23
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Baylisascaris procyonis.

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Raccoon roundworm

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What does raccoon roundworm cause?

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Ocular, visceral and neural larval migrans

25
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Cat hookworm?

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Anclyostoma tubaeforme

26
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Two types of strictly dog hookworms?

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Ancylostoma canium, uncinaria stenocephala

27
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Dog and cat hookworms?

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Anclyostoma braziliense

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Where do hookworm travel?

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Tissue migration, to tracheal migration to be swallowed and get to the intestines to become an adult

29
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Transmission of hookworm?

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Ingestion, transmammary, transplacental, through skin

30
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Symptoms of hookworms?

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Dark tarry stool, dry hair coat, anemia, pale mm and prolonged CRT, weakness, dehydration

31
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Treatment options for hookworms?

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Pyrantal pamoate (strongid/nemex), dichlorvos, Panacur

32
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“Creeping eruption” “plumbers itch”

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Cutaneous larval migrans of hookworms

33
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How can humans get hookworms?

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Skin penetration, gardening, playing in dirt, lying in grass, ingestion of parasite

34
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After three weeks of life, one female hookworm can produce….

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20,000-50,000 eggs a day.

35
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Strongyloides

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Intestinal Threadworms

36
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How are intestinal threadworms spread?

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Skin and transmammary routes

37
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Tricchuris vulpis?

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Canine whipworm

38
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Where do whipworms infect?

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Large intestine

39
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Identified by bi-polar plugs called…

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Whipworms, operculum

40
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Identification of whipworm ova?

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Lemon shape with bi polar plugs, yellow to brown

41
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How long can whipworms survive?

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5-10 years

42
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Spirocerca lupi?

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Esophageal worm

43
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Dirofilaria immitis

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Heartworm disease

44
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Hosts of dirofilaria?

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Dogs, cats, ferrets

45
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Where are adult dirofilaria found?

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Right side of the pulmonary artery

46
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Where are microfilariae found?

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The circulatory system

47
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Eosinophils are usually associated with…

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Parasites

48
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What test tests for adult heartworm?

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Elisa

49
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How can you test for microfilaria?

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Direct smear (EDTA spin down), hematocrit (found in Buffy coat), filtration , knott test

50
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Aelurostrongylus abstrusus.

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Feline lungworm

51
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False heartworm.

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D. Reconditum

52
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Where do feline lungworm live?

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In the bronchioles and alveolar ducts.

53
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Filaroides spp.

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Canine lungworm

54
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Eucoleus aerophilus

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Feline respiratory capillaries

55
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Diactophyma renale

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Giant kidney worm

56
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Pearsonema plica or feliscati

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Bladder worms of canines and felines

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