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Exam 5 Flashcards

1
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Piercing stylets

A

Mandibles

Maxillae

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2
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Sucking channel

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Labrum

Hypopharynx

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3
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Telmophagic

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Drinking from a pool of blood

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4
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Which insects use cutting and sponging

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Horsefly

Black fly

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5
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Sponging only

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Housefly

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6
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What helps lice digest and reproduce

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Symbionts in gut

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7
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Pediculosis

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Heavy infestation of lice

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8
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What insect isn’t know for being a parasite for any vectors?

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Chewing lice

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9
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Tibio tarsal claws

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Sucking lice

Help them stay attached when the host is grooming itself

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10
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How many in stars do lice have

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3 instars

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11
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Where does Pediculus humanus oviposit

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Female lays eggs on clothing not body

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12
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What is the disease Pediculus humanus causes

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Vector of epidemic typhus
(Rickettsia prowazekii)
Fever, aches, rash
Incubation 10-14 days

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13
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What type of louse is the only one to transmit pathogens?

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Pediculus humanus

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14
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Is having sex the only way to transmit Pthirus pubis

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No just the most common

Can also get by sharing clothes, towels, a bed or sitting on a couch or toilet seat

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15
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How are fleas compressed?

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Bilaterally

Adaptive to move through hair

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16
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Sensilium

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Pygidium
Host detecting structure
Air movement
Diff in temp

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17
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Holometabolous

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Complete metamorphosis

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18
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How do fleas get on their host?

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Resilin for jumping

Legs used for grappling hooks

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19
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How do fleas locate hosts?

What organs are necessary for this

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Body warmth, air movement, vibrations of substrate, odors, CO2

Eyes, antennae, sensilium

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20
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What flea burrows beneath the skin

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Tunga penetrans

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21
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Stick tight flea

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Echinophaga gallinea

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22
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Enzoctic cycle

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Rats/mice-> fleas
|
V
Humans

Urban plague

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23
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Epizootic cycle

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Fleas- wild rodents
| |
V V
Humans Accidental host

Sylvatic plague

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24
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Oriental rat fleas

A

Xenopylla cheopis

Bubonic plague

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25
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Proventriculus block

A

Flea takes a blood meal but it can’t get past the block so it has to regurgitate the now contaminated blood. Spreading the bacteria

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26
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True bugs

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Order Hemiptera

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27
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Parts of a kissing bug

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Right behind head is Pronotum and the triangle is the Scutulum

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28
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Kissing bug

Family

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Triatoma infestans

Reduvidae

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29
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Flea family

A

Pulicidae

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30
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Common bed bug

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Cimex lectularis

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31
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Bed bug family

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Cimicidae

32
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How are bed bugs flattened?

A

Dorsaventrally

33
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How do bed bugs mate?

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Female has Berlese organ opening and the males penis acts as a dagger to penetrate the integument

34
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How many instars in bed bug life cycle

A

5

35
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Sylvatic

A

Nests, burrows of the host

Tend to feed on wild animals

36
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Periodonestic

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Corrals, coops, stables

Feed on domestic animals, livestock

37
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Domestic

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Human dwellings
Triatoma spp.
Rhodinus spp.

38
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Kissing bugs vectors for?

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Chagas’ disease
Trypanosoma cruzi
Trypomastigote- imbibed by bug
Epimastigote- binary fission
Metacyclic trypomastigotes- vertebrate host (infective stage)
Amastigote- in tissue of host (musculature)
Trypomastigote- to bug (circulates in blood)

39
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Mosquito family

A

Culicidae

40
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Autogenous

A

First egg batch —> complete development

41
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Anautogenous

A

Blood —> nutrients —> egg development

42
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Vitellogenin

A

Blood protein provides amino acids

43
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How do the diff mosquitos lay their eggs

A

Anopheles/ Culex - directly on water surface
Aedes- above water on damp substrate
Mansonia- underside of leaf

44
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Mosquito larva

A

Not buoyant
4 instars
Spicules penetrate surface to breathe

45
Q

Mosquito pupae

A

Respirator trumpets to breathe
Non feeding
Tumblars
Buoyant- air bubbles

46
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Endophagic

A

Feed in enclosures

47
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Exophagic

A

Will not feed in enclosures

48
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Endophilic

A

Stay on the wall to digest

49
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Exophilic

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Prefer to be outside to digest

50
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Bird feeding species

A

Culex pipiens

51
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Anyhrophagic

A

Feed on humans

52
Q

How do mosquitos feed

A

Solenophagic

Pierce skin and feed from blood vessel

53
Q

Yellow fever

A

Aedes aegypti

54
Q

Yellow fever pathology

A 
Attacks the liver
Parenchymal cell necrosis
Bilirubin (deposited in skin) 
Jaundice 
Systematic toxemia 
Black vomit

(Trans ovarian transmission )

55
Q

Carlos Finley

A

Started study that led to others connecting dots about yellow fever

56
Q

Water reed
Jesse
James carol

A

Research in yellow fever
One died on accidental exposure
One let himself get infected on purpose- James

57
Q

William Gorgas

A

Army
Panama Canal
Help prevent mosquito transmissions

58
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Dengue fever

A

Aedes aegypti

59
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DHF

A

Dengue hemorrhagic fever

Internal bleeding

60
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DSS

A

Dengue shock syndrome
Break bone fever
Causes the most mortality
More children than adults

61
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Heart worm parasite genus

A

Dirofilaria

62
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Filiriasis parasite genus

A

Wuchereria

63
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Malaria parasite genus

A

Plasmodium

64
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West Nile virus

A

Flavivirus

65
Q

Eastern and western equine encephalitis

A

Alpha virus

Can kill a horse in a day

66
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Family of hard ticks

A

Ixodidae

67
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Family of soft ticks

A

Argasidae

68
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Relapsing fever

A

Soft ticks
Borrelia recurentis
Coxal glands - leak excess salt and water from blood feeding

69
Q

Genes organ

A

In females between the capitalism and scutum

Wax like material around eggs prevent drying out

70
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How many I stars in hard ticks

A

1

71
Q

Soft tick have how many instars

A

2 or more

72
Q

What ticks larvae stays on egg and doesn’t take a blood meal

A

Ornithodoros

73
Q

Example of a 1 host tick

A

Boophilus annulatus
Cattle tick
Texas cattle fever- Babesia
Larva- nymph- adult feed on one host

74
Q

Example of 2 host tick

A

Hyalomma
Cattle tick
Larva- nymph one host
Adult different host

75
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Example of 3 host tick

A

90% of hard ticks
All stages feed on diff hosts
Best for pathogens
Dercementer, ixodes, Rhipicephalus

76
Q

Nidocolous

A

Soft ticks

Inhabit dwelling of host

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