Exam II Flashcards
Which class of parasites has these 4 main stages of life? Operculated eggs-Miracidia-Sporocyst-Cercariae-Metacercariae-Adults
Trematodes
A dog comes in suffering from an intermittent cough and you find large, oval, yellow, operculated eggs in the feces after performing a fecal sedimentation test. The dog had recently been around lakes/rivers. What parasite could this be?
Paragonimus kellicotti
“Lung fluke”
Which parasite is associated with neorickettsia helminthoeca in dogs and has a very short PPP ( 1 week)?
Nanophyetus salmincola
“Salmon poisoning fluke”
How can nanophyetus salmincola be treated?
Praziquantel for the fluke and tetracycline for the nanophyetus salmincola
Which parasite can cause lizard poisoning with subsequent hepatomegaly and icterus in cats? How do cats become infected?
Platynosomum fastosum
Ingesting an obligate paratenic host (lizard) with infective metacercariae
A dog presents with pulmonary hemorrhaging and you find very large operculate eggs (130um) in the stool after performing a fecal sedimentation test. The owner tells you that they found the dog eating a frog about 5 weeks ago. What parasite could this be? What stage is causing the hemorrhaging?
Alaria spp.
“Intestinal fluke”
Migrating mesocercariae
T/F: Trematodes are very selective in their snail IH selection.
True
Which trematodes that infects dogs/cats has the longest and the shortest PPP?
Platynosomum fastosum has the longest ( 2-3 months)
Nanophyetus salmincola has the shortest ( 1 week)
What are the most common trematodes that have cats and dogs as the final host? Which are zoonotic?
Paragonimus kellicotti (zoonotic) Nanophyetus salmincola (zoonotic) Alaria spp. (zoonotic) Platynosomum fastosum (cats only)
What is the difference between mesocercariae and metacercariae?
Mesocercariae is a stage like metacercariae but only found with Alaria spp.
Which parasite can cause death before patency in sheep and goats? This parasite is spread by white tailed deer, infects the liver, and has metacercariae as the infective stage.
Fascioloides magna
How does fascioloides magna inflict so much damage in sheep and goats, but not in cattle/pigs/horses?
Cattle/pigs and horses are dead end hosts while sheep/goats are aberrant hosts. This means a cyst never forms in the aberrant hosts, causing the metacercariae to migrate through the liver until they cause enough damage to cause death.
What are the best way to treat and prevent a fascioloides magna problem?
Drain and dry pastures to control snail population
Don’t let deer/elk in the same area as livestock
Use flukicides to treat migrating immature flukes
Fasciola hepatica is a major problem for livestock owners throughout the United States. If owners were to treat their livestock, when is the best time to treat adults flukes in the southwest or northwest USA?
Northwest: Spring
Southwest: End of Fall/Before Winter
You go out to a cattle farm to perform a necropsy on a steer. You find that it has pipestem liver and leaf shaped, 3 cm long organisms in the gall bladder. The rancher tells you that the cow was exhibiting diarrhea, bottle jaw, and inappetence before it died. What parasite could this be?
Fasciola Hepatica
“Liver fluke”
This fluke is red, shaped like a pear, and between 5-13 mm in length. It causes disease in large animals before PPP and you can’t see eggs so must rely mostly on clinical signs to diagnose. Which parasite is this, what parts of body does it infect and what clinical signs are you most likely to see?
Paramphistomum spp.
Immature fluke found in duodenum and become adults in the rumen.
Anorexia clostridium infection, bottle jaw, enteritis, diarrhea mostly in young animals
How can you treat paramphistomum spp. at the immature and adult stage?
Oxyclozanide for both stages
Niclosamide for immature stage
Which fluke species in large animals has the largest egg?
Paramphistomum spp. 160 um!!
Which large animal fluke species as the longest prepatent period and which has the shortest?
Paramphistomum spp and F. Hepatic have the shortest (7-12 weeks)
Fascioloides magna has the longest ( 8 months)
T/F: Fascioloides magna and paramphistomum spp. are zoonotic and Fasciola hepatica is not.
False: Fasciola hepatica is zoonotic while fascioloides magna and paramphistomum spp. are not.
Which parasite causes blackhead in turkeys?
Heterakis gallinarum
Tell me about the egg, infective stage, and the location of infection of heterakis spp.
Thick shelled, oval, smaller than ascaridia spp, eggs.
L2 in an egg inside a paratenic earthworm host
Cecum
The “sneaky” trophozoites in H. gallinarum are from _________ ____________ and cause high mortality in __________.
Histomonas meleagridis
young turkeys
A young chicken is brought into the clinic exhibiting anorexia and small intestine obstruction. You perform a mcmaster fecal float and find oval, thick shelled eggs. Which parasite is this?
Ascaridia spp.
“roundworms”