Hair and Skin

Question 1

What are the examples of hair and skin sampling techniques?

Answer 1

skin biopsy, scrapes, hair brushings, tape impressions, hair plucks and swabs

Question 2

What are the ways of identifying parasites?

Answer 2

wood’s lamp
microscopic
culture

Question 3

What is a sarcoptes scabiei?

Answer 3

burrowing mite (kinda like flat pancake/ shell shaped)

Question 4

What is a Cheyletiella?

Answer 4

surface mite (looks like it has a thin phone in the middle) hey chey

Question 5

What is a Otodectes Cynotis?

Answer 5

surface mite (looks like a mini baby one in the middle)

Question 6

What is a Felicola Subrostratus?

Answer 6

biting louse, (has a scorpion teeth)

Question 7

What is a Demodox Mite?

Answer 7

burrowing mite, (dick demo)

Question 8

What is a Trichodectes Canis?

Answer 8

biting louse, (teeth lines in the body)

Question 9

What is a Harvest Mite?

Answer 9

surface mite (looks super orange, hay)

Question 10

Describe the effects of Cheyletiella?

Answer 10

‘walking dandruff’ , indirect and directly (bedding)

Question 11

Describe the effects of Demodex?

Answer 11

itchy mite, hair loss around body and eyes,

Question 12

What sampling technique would be used for an ear infection?

Answer 12

swabs

Question 13

What sampling technique would be used for ringworm?

Answer 13

culturing and skin scrapes

Question 14

What is an Fine Needle Aspirate (FNA)?

Answer 14

Samples lumps/ cells of areas with abdominal irritations- subcutaneous under microscopic lens (can be fluids too)

Lymphoma- type of blood cancer within the lymphatic system
Trichoblastomas- tumour located in head/ neck