Exam 3 review Flashcards
What disease has carriers identified by a Coggins test?
Equine Infectious Anemia
What is another name for roundworms?
Ascarids
What disease has 3 strains and is also known as sleeping sickness
Equine encephalomyelitis (Western, Eastern and Venezuelan)
What disease is caused by equine herpes virus?
Rhinopneumonitis
What parasite can do serious damage because they migrate through tissues including the liver and cranial mesenteric artery?
Large strongyles
A lesion or trauma to the covering of the eye over the iris and pupil (can develop into a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection)
Corneal ulcer
Parasites with a life cycle that involves migrating from the digestive tract to lungs, being coughed up and reswallowed?
Ascarids (roundworms)
Parasite most likely to result in horse’s tail itching
pinworms
What disease can be one of two forms (respiratory and neurologic)? Vaccine only protects against the respiratory form, not the neurologic
Rhinopneumonitis (Herpes virus)
A collection of pus (dead white blood cells) under the skin or hoof of a horse is:
Abcess
About how often should a horse’s hooves be trimmed?
every 6-8 weeks
A horse has how many pairs of chromosomes?
32
