Endoparasites Of Large Animals Flashcards
What are roundworms?
Nematodes
What has tough skin that is called a cuticle?
Nematode
What can be found in the skin, kidneys, lungs, bladder, nervous system, blood and the intestines?
Nematode
What has a life cycle egg, four larval and adult?
Nematode
What measures 2mm-30cm
Nematode
What are the 3 species of Nematoes whose common name is Abomasal Worms that infect ruminants?
Haemonchus sp., Ostertagia sp., and Trichostrongylus sp.
What is the species of nematode that is a Abomasal worm that infects ruminants causes type 1 and 2 diseases?
Ostertagia species
What is the genus and species that are the nematodes whose common name is intestinal strongyles that infect ruminants?
Cooperia sp. and Nematodirus sp.
What are the 3 genus and species whose common name is the lung worm that all infect and sheep and goats. What is the only one that infects cattle?
Dictyocaulus sp., Protostrongylus rufescens, and Muellerius capilla. Dictyocaulus sp. only infect cattle.
What are tapeworms?
Cestodes
What does not have a digestive tract?
Cestodes
What has a head known as the scolex, and the body known as the proglottids?
Cestodes
What lives in the host intestines?
Cestodes
What can measure to 5mm-7mm?
Cestodes
What is the species of tapeworm whose common name is the Ruminant tapeworm that infects all ruminants?
Moniezia species
What is the species of Taeniid tapeworms whose intermediate host are ruminants and definite host is the dog?
Taenia species
What is the Genus and species of Hydatid tapeworms whose intermediate host are ruminants and definite host is the dog?
Echinococcus granulosus
What are trematodes?
Flukes