Large Animal Parasites

Question 1

Large Strongyles Scientific Name

Answer 1

Strongylus vulgaris

Question 2

Which Strongyle is most commonly associated with clinical disease?

Answer 2

Strongylus vulgaris

Question 3

What harm can Strongylus vulgaris cause?

Answer 3

damages cranial mesenteric artery and its branches

Question 4

Other name for Small Strongyles

Answer 4

Cyathostomes

Question 5

Strongyles are __________________ worms.

Answer 5

large intestinal worms

Question 6

Bot Fly of the Horse Scientific Name

Answer 6

Gastrophilus sp.

Question 7

Where do Bots live?

Answer 7

in the stomach

Question 8

Threadworm of the Horse

Answer 8

Strongyloides westeri

Question 9

Strongyloides westeri is mainly a ___________________.

Answer 9

foal parasite

Question 10

Pinworm Scientific Name

Answer 10

Oxyuris equi

Question 11

Stomach Worms

Answer 11

Habronema muscae
Draschia megastoma

Question 12

How are Stomach Worms transmitted?

Answer 12

eggs/larvae are ingested by larvae of house/stable flies, flies are the intermediate hosts

Question 13

Roundworm of the Horse Scientific Name

Answer 13

Parascaris equorum

Question 14

What can Parascaris equorum cause?

Answer 14

can cause colic in foals and migrating larvae can cause liver and lung damage

Question 15

Tapeworms Scientific Name

Answer 15

Anoplocephala magna
Anoplocephala perfoliata
Paranoplocephala manillana

Question 16

Coccidia of the Horse Scientifiic Name

Answer 16

Eimeria leukarti

Question 17

Lungworm of the Horse and Donkey Scientific Name

Answer 17

Dictocaulus arnfeldi

Question 18

What is Sarcystis neurona?

Answer 18

protozoa that lives in the nervous system and causes EPM (Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis)

Question 19

How is Sarocystis neurona transmitted?

Answer 19

consumption of sporocytes in opossum feces

Question 20

How is Sarocystis neurona prevented?

Answer 20

avoid contact with opossums and prevent opossum access to food

Question 21

What is GIN?

Answer 21

Gastrointestinal nematodes

Question 22

Scientific Name for Barber Pole Worm

Answer 22

Haemonchus contortus

Question 23

Haemonchus contortus are _________________.

Answer 23

veracious bloodsuckers

Question 24

What is used to determine level of anemia/when sheep should be dewormed?

Answer 24

FAMACHA scale

Question 25

Scientific Name for Small Stomach Worm/Bankrupt Worm

Answer 25

Trichostrongylus axei

Question 26

Scientific Name for Brown Stomach Worm

Answer 26

Ostertagia osteragi

Question 27

What damage can Ostertagia osteragi cause?

Answer 27

larval destruction of gastric glands in abomasum

Question 28

Scientific Name for Lungworm of the Cattle

Answer 28

Dictyocaulus viviparous

Question 29

What clinic signs are seen with Dictyocaulus viviparous?

Answer 29

respiratory symptoms like coughing and dyspnea

Question 30

Liver Fluke Scientific Name

Answer 30

Fasciola hepatica

Question 31

Intermediate Host of Fasciola hepatica

Answer 31

snail is the intermediate host

Question 32

Scientific Name for Hookworm of the Cattle

Answer 32

Bunostomum phlebotonum

Question 33

Scientific Name for Whipworm of the Cattle

Answer 33

Trichuris ovis

Question 34

Scientific Name for Tapeworm of the Cattle

Answer 34

Moniezia benedini

Question 35

Intermediate Host for Moniezia benedini

Answer 35

pasture mites

Question 36

Scientific Name for Roundworm of Ruminants

Answer 36

Nematodirus