Heterakis, Ascaridia, Strongyloididae

Question 1

What species transmits Histomonas meleagridis?

Answer 1

Heterakis gallinae

Question 2

What is the host and predilection site of Heterakis gallinae?

Answer 2

Domestic and wild birds, cecum

Question 3

Where is Heterakis isolonche found?

Answer 3

In the cecum of pheasants

Question 4

What is the Ascaridia of game birds?

Answer 4

A. compar

Question 5

What is the Ascaridia of turkey?

Answer 5

A. dissimilis

Question 6

What is the Ascaridia of pigeon?

Answer 6

A. columbae

Question 7

What is the Ascaridia of wild and domestic birds?

Answer 7

A. galli

Question 8

What is the largest and most common nematode of chicken?

Answer 8

Ascaridia galli

Question 9

What Strongyloides spp affects equine?

Answer 9

S. westeri

Question 10

What Strongyloides spp affects ruminants?

Answer 10

S. papillosus

Question 11

What Strongyloides spp affects pigs?

Answer 11

S. ransomi

Question 12

What Strongyloides spp affects dogs, cats, and man?

Answer 12

S. stercoralis

Question 13

What Strongyloides spp affects birds?

Answer 13

S. avium

Question 14

What type of esophagus do these species have?

Answer 14

Rhabditiform or filariform esophagus

Question 15

Which animals are primarily affected by Strongyloides?

Answer 15

Neonatal pigs and the growing stages

Question 16

Which Strongyloides species causes hyperinfection?

Answer 16

Strongyloides stercoralis

Question 17

Describe the eggs of Heterakis spp.

Answer 17

Ovoid, smooth shelled and unsegmented

Question 18

What causes nodular typhlitis in pheasants?

Answer 18

Heterakis isolonche

Question 19

What species only have females as the parasitic form?

Answer 19

Strongyloides spp

Question 20

What is the common name of Strongyloides?

Answer 20

Threadworm

Question 21

What is a primitive group of nematodes mostly free living or parasitic in lower vertebrates and invertebrates?

Answer 21

Strongyloides

Question 22

What is the affected site of Strongyloides?

Answer 22

Cecum and small intestine

Question 23

What causes foot rot during Strongyloides infection?

Answer 23

Bacteroides nodosus

Question 24

considered to be the biggest nematode of poultry

Answer 24

Ascaridia galli

Question 25

Male ascaridia is characterized by?

Answer 25

Presence of precloacal sucker and 2 equal spicules

Question 26

mechanical carriers of heterakis

Answer 26

Earthworms, Houseflies

Question 27

This family have long tapering tails hence the common name pinworms

Answer 27

Family Oxyuridae

Question 28

free living rhabditida spp in decaying matter but may cause pruritic, hyperemic dermatitis in cattle, swine, dogs when exposed to the normal habitats of the nematodes

Answer 28

Rhabditis strongyloides

Question 29

rhabditida species highly pathogenic parasites in horse and man that are found in various organs

Answer 29

Halicephalobus (Micronema) deletrix

Question 30

these parasites are produced through parthenogenesis

Answer 30

dwarf worms/thread worms

Question 31

PS of Strongyloides spp

Answer 31

mucosa of proximal 3rd of SI

Question 32

Strongyloides spp a soil-transmitted nematode parasite that infects humans (aside from S. stercoralis) and non-human primates

Answer 32

Strongyloides fuelleborni

Question 33

these are the only helminth infection considered to be facultative opportunistic in HIV infected patients

Answer 33

Strongyloides

Question 35

these nematodes are characterized by precloacal sucker and 2 equal spicules

Answer 35

Ascaridia galli

Question 36

Their pathogenic effects include reduced blood sugar and ureters have distended urates

Answer 36

Ascaridia galli