MT 2 random Flashcards
Lice in general
- Host-specific
- Permanent ectoparasites
- Live for 1-5 months
- Chewing/biting lice: Amblycera, Ischnocera
- Blood sucking: Anopleura
- Survival off the host: 1-4 days for blood-sucking, 1-2 weeks for chewing/biting
- In birds and mammals, but pig, rabbits and humans have no chewing/biting lice and cat and birds have no blood sucking lice
Lice morphology
- 1-14 mm (females bigger)
- Ventrodors. flattened
- Wingless
- Reduced/absent eyes
- 9 abdominal segments, with 6 pairs of spiracles
Difference btw. chewing/biting and blood sucking lice
- Head is wider than thorax in c/b, narrower in b.s.
- 3-5 segmented antennae in c/b, 5 in b.s.
- 1-2 tarsal claws in c/b, one single in b.s.
Species of chewing/biting lice
Suborder Amblycera: -Menopan Gallinae: chicken -Trinoton anserinum: goose -T.querquedulae: duck Suborder Ischnocera: -Werneckiella equi: horse -Bovicola bovis: cattle -B.ovis: sheep -B.caprae: goat -Trichodectes canis: dog -Felicola subrostratus: cat -Lipeurus caponis: chicken -Columbicola columbae: pigeon
Species of blood sucking lice
- Haematopinus suis: pig
- Haematopinus eurysternus: cattle
- Haematopinus asini: horse
- Phthirus pubis: hu + gorilla
- Haemodipsus ventricosus: rabbit
- Pediculus humanus: hu
- P.pubis: hu
- Solenopotes capillatus: cattle
- Linognathus vituli: cattle
- L. stenopsis: sheep
- L. setosus: sheep, goat
- L. pedalis: sheep
- L. ovillus: sheep
- Polyplax serrata
Difference btw. the species of chewing/biting lice
(don´t need to distinguish the species, only that it is a chewing/biting lice, but)
- Columbicola columbae: very long body, found in the wing of the bird
- Felicola subrostratus: head looks like a house
- Trichodectes and Bovicola looks similar, don´t need to distinguish
Difference btw. the species of blood sucking lice
- Haematopinus eurysternus: very large arms
- Solenopotes capillatus: small nose, first legs shorter
- Linognathus: long nose, first legs shorter
Lice: development, clinical signs and diagnosis
Development:
-Epimorphosis with 3 nymphal stages (takes ca. 1 month), sometimes parthenogenesis (B.bovis)
-Eggs (nits) firmly attached to hairs/fleece/feathers
-Nymph resembles adults
Clinical signs:
-Factor disease (usually winter)
-Scratching, intense grooming, alopecia, anaemia, weight loss, excoriation, dermatitis, hide and fleece damage, lameness in sheep
Diagnosis: based on clinical signs and presence of eggs (nits), nymphs or adults
Fleas in general
- Non-host specific
- Permanent ectoparasites
- Adults sucks blood many times per day
- Development in surrounding
Species of fleas
Order Siphonaptera
- Cterocephalidus canis: dog, cat, man
- C.felis: cat, dog, man
- Pulex irritans: man, dog, cat, pig
- Spilopsyllus gallinae: domestic poultry, man, pet animals
- Tunga penetrans: man (sand flies!)
- Echnidophaga gallinae: fowl, dog, cat, rabbit, horse, man
Where can we find the eggs of fleas?
Environment! Must both treat animals and the environment (hoover)
Fleas morphology
-1-6mm, lat. flattened, wingless
-short antennae in recess
-eye: ocellus (not compound)
-piercing-sucking mouthpart
-one or two combs - ctenidia: on head/thorax
-10 abd. segments
Larvea:
-head with chewing moutparts (eat adult flea faeces)
-13 body sergments
-no legs, just antennae!
Fleas: development, clinical signs and diagnosis
Development:
-holometamorphosis w. 3 larveal stages
-eggs laid on host but drop off
-larvea has head with chewing moutparts and 13 body sergments, feed on faeces of adults and debris
-3rd larvea spins cocoon, pupation within cocoon
-Tunga penetrans (jigger): only MALE sucks blood, female digs into skin and becomes nodule
-Echidnophaga gallinacea: embedded in skin around eyes, cloaca, wattles of birds or ear canals of mammals
Clinical signs:
-restlessness, scratching, intense grooming, anaemia
-FAD-flea-bite-allergy if repeated bites
-Dogs: hot spot in lumbosacral/gluteal region
-Cats: miliary dermatitis
Diagnosis:
-eggs collected by comb
-use cotton to see blood contents of flea dirt (black + red around)
-exam. of surroundings, Diphylidium tapeworms in dogs and cats
-serological ELISA to detect IgG/IgE in dogs and cats with FAD
Bugs in general
- Cimex lectularis: bed bug
- Triatoma spp: assassin/kissing bug
- Temporary, blood-sucking ectoparasites
- Nocturnal
- Mammals+birds
Morphology of bugs
- Dorsovent. flattened
- 4-segmented antennae
- 3-segm. beak and tarsus
Morphology of bed bug
- 5-7mm, reddish-brown
- Has scent-gland
- Fore-wings reduced, hind-wings absent
- Blood sucking mouthparts
- 11 segm. abdomen
- Respiratory spiracles vent.
Morphology of kissing bug
- 20-28mm, elongated
- Membraneous hind-wings, triangular shield bw.
What can Triatoma spp. transmit?
Trypanosomas