Lec 25 Arthropods

Question 1

Main Vector of Plasmodium

Answer 1

ANOPHELES quadrimaculatus

Question 2

Anopheles quadrimaculatus

Answer 2

main vector of plasmodium

Question 3

Common House mosquito
Main Vector for Wichereria bancrofti

Answer 3

Culex quinquefasciatus

Question 4

Culex quinquefasciatus

Answer 4

Common House mosquito
Main vector for wichereria bancrofti

Question 5

This arthropod transmits Babesia Microti

Answer 5

Ixodes scapularis = deer tick

Question 6

Ixodes scapularis

Answer 6

transmits babesia microti

Question 7

Arthropod responsible for head lice

Answer 7

Pediculosis capitis

Question 8

Pediculosis capitis is responsible for

Answer 8

Head Lice

Question 9

Crab or Pubic Lice is caused by

Answer 9

Pthirus pubis

Question 10

Pthirrus pubis is responsible for

Answer 10

Crab or pubic lice

Question 11

Vector of Brugia Malayi that causes lymphatic filariasis

Answer 11

Mansonia uniformis = mosquito

Question 12

Mansonia uniformis is the mosquito vector for ______ that causes lymphatic filariasis

Answer 12

Brugia Malayi

Question 13

This arthropod is also known as Chiggers, Harvest Mite, or Scrub Itch Mite

Answer 13

Trombicula alfreddugesi

Question 14

This is the vector of Leishmania donovani

Answer 14

Phlebotomus papatasi = sand fly

Question 15

Phlebotomus papatasi is the vector for

Answer 15

Leishmania donovani
Painful bites

Question 16

Human Bot Fly
causes Furuncular myasis = boil like lesions

Answer 16

Dermatobia hominis

Question 17

Dermatobia hominis causes

Answer 17

Furnuclar myasis = boil like lesions
human bot fly

Question 18

Black Fly transmits larvae of ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS – onchocerciasis = river blindness

Answer 18

Simulium damnosum

Question 19

Simulium damnosum causes

Answer 19

Onchocerciasis – Onchocerca volvulus
Black Fly

Question 20

Tsetse Fly vector transmits Trypansoma brucei

Sleeping Sickness

Answer 20

Glossina palpis

Question 21

Glossina Palpis causes

Answer 21

Trypanosoma brucei = sleeping sickness
Tsetse Fly

Question 22

Kissing/Reduviid bug – vector for trypansoma cruzi that causes chagas disease

Answer 22

Triatoma infestans

Question 23

Triatoma infestans causes

Answer 23

Trypanosoma cruzi that causes chagas disease
Reduviid Bug or Kissing Bug

Question 24

Infection from bite of mite – burrows through skin (serpinginous cutaneous burrows)
pruritis/dermatitis

Answer 24

Sarcoptes scabiei

Question 25

Sand flea that burrows into the skin (feet/toes) sucks blood before producing eggs causes TUNGIASIS

Answer 25

Tunga penetrans

Question 26

Mosquito, vector for Denque virus, Yellow Fever virus, Chikungunya and zika virus

Answer 26

Aedes Aegypti