ECTOPARASITES Flashcards
CAUSES INFECTION
ENDOPARASITES
CAUSES INFESTATION
ECTOPARASITES
MOST ARE HOST-SPECIFIC AND LIVES ON HOST
ECTOPARASITES
RESPIRATION OF ECTOPARASITE
AEROBIC
TRANSMIT DISEASES AS MECHANICAL TRANSFER AGENTS
ARTHROPODS
INTRO OF POISONOUS SUBSTANCE THRU BITE
ENVENOMIZATION
FLYIG INSECTS REQUIRES WHAT FOR INACTIVATION
CHLOROFORM OR ETHER
ARTHROPODS
TICKS MITES FLEAS FLIES LICE MOSQUITO
IT HAS 4 PAIRS OF LEGS, 2 PAIR OF MOUTHS AND HAS NO ANTENNAE
TICKS
ONLY SEEN IN HARD TICKS
SCUTUM (SHIELD)
2 TYPES OF TICKS
HARD TICKS (IXODIDAE) SOFT TICKS (ARGASIDAE
MOUTHPART THAT IS PRESENT IN BOTH TYPE OF TICKS
ANTERIOR CAPITULUM
4 MORPHOLIC STAGES OF TICKS
EGGS
LARVAE
NYMPHS
ADULT
JUVENILE STAGE OF TICKS
LARVAE
DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE OF TICKS THAT RESEMBLES ADULT
NYMPHS
TICKS ARE PRIMARY VECTOR FOR
BORRELIA BURGDORFERI (LYME DISEASE) & BABESIA SPP.
IT IS EXTREMELY SMALL ARTHROPODS BUT STILL VISIBLE TO NAKED EYE
MITES
ADULT MITES INFEST HUMAN BY BURROWING INTO
SKIN, HAIR FOLLICLES, SEBACEOUS GLANDS
MITES CAUSES
SCABIES (SARCOPTES SCABEI)
HALLMARK AREAS AFFECTED BY SCABIES
B/N FINGERS FOLD OF WRIST, ELBOW OR KNEE WAISTLINE OR NAVEL BREAST OR GENITALS SOLES
MITES HAS WHAT PRURITIS
NIGHT-TIME PRURITIS
MODE OF TRANSMISSION OF MITES
DIRECT, PROLONGED, SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT
DIAGNOSIS OF MITES
PIMPLE-LIKE LESION OR BLISTER
LAB DIAGNOSIS OF MITES AND IS STAINED WITH
LACTOPHENOLE COTTON-BLUE
ITCHINESS TREATMENT FOR MITES INFESTATION
ORAL ANTIHISTAMINE OR PRAMOXINE
IT HAS 3 PAIRS OF HAIRY LEGS & CLAWLIKE FEET; ITS MOUTHPART IS DESIGNED FOR PIERCING AND BLOOD SUCKING
FLEAS
FLEAS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TRANSMITTING
D. CANINUM
H. NANA
H. DIMINUTA
YERSINIA PESTIS
HAS 2 PAIR OF WINGS, HEAD, THORAX AND ABDOMEN APPEAR AS SEPERATE, 1 PAIR OF ANTENNAE & 1 PAIR OF EYES; 3 PAIRS LEGS ARE RULE
FLIES
IT IS THE COMPLETE TRANSITION FROM DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE TO A MORPHOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT STAGE
METAMORPHOSIS
COCOON STAGE AKA
PUPA
DEER FLY IS THE VECTOR OF
LOA LOA
BLACKFLY IS THE VECTOR OF
ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS
HUMAN INFESTATION BY FLY LARVAE
MYIASIS
TREATMENT FOR MYIASIS
COMPLETE EXCISION OF LESION
WINGLESS, 3 SEGMENTED BODIES WITH 3 PAIRS OF LEGS
LICE
ADULT LICE AKA
NITS
HOW MANY NYMPH STAGES LICES HAVE
3
IT IS TRANSMITTED THRU CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACT
CRAB LICE
INFESTATION WITH LICE WHEREIN THERE IS ITCHY PAPULES & INFLAMMATION AT SITE
PEDICULOSIS
TREATMENT OF LICE INFESTATION
BENZENE HEXACHLORIDE LOTION
MOST IMPORTANT GROUP OF PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM TRANMITTERS
MOSQUITO
VECTOR OF PLASMODIUM SPP
ANOPHELES
CULEX, AEDES & ANOPHELES IS VECTOR OF
WUCHERERIA BRANCOFTI
ANOPHELES, MANSONIA, ARMIGERES, AEDES ARE VECTORS OF
BRUGIA MALAYI
IT IS THE MOST NOTABLE SYMPTOMS OF MOSQUITO INFESTATION
IRRITATING DERMATITIS
INFESTATION OR INVASION OF TISSUE OR ORGAN BY DIPTEROUS LARVAE
MYIASIS
CONDITION WHEREIN LARVAE NEEDS A HOST TO COMPLETE ITS DEVELOPMENT
OBLIGATORY MYIASIS
OCCURS WHEN A FREE-LIVING LARVAE BECOMES PARASITIC
FACULTATIVE MYIASIS
