Lecture 4: Diagnostic and Treatment Flashcards
What are the 3 broad classifications of parasites
Protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites
Are Protozoa and helminths ecto or endoparasites
Endoparasites
Are Protozoa unicellular or multicellular
Unicellular
Are helminths multicellular or unicellular
Multicellular
Ectoparasites have ___ appendages
Jointed
What are the 4 common Protozoal parasites in veterinary medicine
- Flagellates
- Amoeba
- Cilliates
- Apicomplexans
Giardia and tritichomonas are what type of Protozoal parasite
Flagellates
Acanthamoeba and entaemoeba are what types of protozoal parasites
Amoeba
Balantidium coli and ichtyhophthirius multifillis are what type of protozoal parasite
Cilliates
Toxoplasma gondii, sarcocystis neurona, neospora caninum, cryptosporidium spp, babseia, coccidia (elimeria, isospora) are what types of protozoal parasites
Apicomplexans
identify the type of protozoal parasite 1-4
- Flagellates
- Amoeba
- Cilliates
- Apicomplexans
What are the three common types of helminths classes in veterinary medicine
- Trematodes (flukes),
- cestodes (tapeworms)
3.nematodes
Fasciola hepatica, fascioloides magna, and paragonimus kellcoti are examples of what type of helminths parasite
Trematodes (flukes)
Dipylidium caninum, Taenia spp, echinococcus spp, and moniezia are what types of common helminths parasites
Cestodes (tapeworms)
Anycylostoma spp, strongylus spp, Haemonchus contortus, ostertagia ostertagi, roundworms (ascaris spp, toxocara spp, parascaris equorum) are examples of what types of common helminth parasite
Nematodes
What are the 5 common ectoparasites in veterinary medicine
Ticks, mites, lice, fleas, fleas/ bots
Rhipicephalus sanguineus, amblyomma americanum. Ixodes scapularis, and dermacenter variabilis are examples of what type of common ectoparasites
Ticks
Sarcoptes scabiei, demodex canis, cheyletiella spp, otodectes cyonotis are examples of what type of ectoparasites
Mites
Linognathus spp, haematripinus spp, trichodetes canis, folio cola subostratus, damalinia spp. are examples of what type of ectoparasites
Lice
Are the following lice bloodsucking or chewing: Linognathus spp, haematripinus spp
Blood sucking
Are the following lice bloodsucking or chewing: trichodetes canis, folio cola subostratus, damalinia spp.
Chewing
Ctenocephalides are examples of what type of ectoparasite
Fleas
Gasterophilus intestinal is, cuterebra cuniculi, melophagus ovinus are examples of what type of ectoparasite
Flies/bots
What are the concentration techniques in diagnosing endoparasites in feces
Fecal flotation, fecal sedimentation and baermann
What do qualitative tests help you determine and what don’t they conclude
Tests help you determine if an animal is infested but doesn’t tell you the degree of infection
What are the 5 techniques for feces endoparasites: qualitative
- Direct visual in feces
- direct fecal smear
- Fecal float
- Fecal sedimentation
- Baermann
Direct fecal smears are not great for detecting
Most GI parasites
What is direct fecal smear most useful at detecting
Observing the motility of protozoal parasites that have motile stages- ex: giardia or tritichomonas
The fecal flotation solution used must have a ____ specific gravity than most common parasites or egg/cysts
Higher
Higher specific gravity of flotation solution allows the eggs/cysts to ____
Float to the top of solution
What is a common floatation solution used
Zinc sulfate or sucrose
When are fecal sedimentation tests used
To detect eggs/cysts that are too heavy or delicate to concentrate by fecal flotation
What type of parasites are fecal sedimentation tests most useful at detecting
Non-nematode eggs: Trematodes and acanthocephalan
Certain protozoal cysts: amoebae, ciliates, Giardia spp
What is the baermann technique useful for recovering
Nematode larvae from samples that relies on their motility
What is the theory behind the baermann technique
Nematode larvae will wiggle out of the biological material, can’t swim against gravity and will fall through water to the area of clamped off tubing
What is the baermann technique useful for detecting
Lung worms and strongyloides
The baermann technique is useful at detecting what parasites in cats
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (terminal airways/lungs)
What is the baermann technique useful at detecting in dogs
Crenosoma vulpis, angiostrongylus vasorum, strongyloides sterocoralis
What is the baermann technique useful at detecting in ruminants
Dictyocaulus spp
What parasites it the baermann technique not preferred in dogs, use flotation technique
Filaroides hirthi, filaroides osleri, eucoleus
What is a direct smear indicated for diagnosing endoparasites
Protozoal GI infection that has motile stages (ex: Giardia and tritichomonas spp)