Name that Zoonoses

Question 1

This zoonotic disease is transmitted via saliva contact (either a bite or broken skin) and is associated with a rash, conjuctivitis, and gangrene of the hands

Answer 1

Capnocytophagia

Question 2

This zoonotic disease is associated with macaques and can be fatal to humans. Human signs include vesicles, fever, cramps, headache, and ataxia

Answer 2

Herpes B Virus (Cercopithecine herpes 1)

Question 3

This zoonotic disease can be transmitted from puppies/kittens who have fever and/or diarrhea; it can be misdiagnosed as appendicitis due to associate lower right quadrant pain

Answer 3

Campylobacter

Question 4

Which zoonotic disease are aquatic animal handlers at risk for getting?

Answer 4

Erysipeloid

Question 5

This zoonotic disease is associated with flu-like symptoms in people (can also have icteric form); affected animals can suffer reproductive problems (cattle) or nephritis and GI signs (dogs)

Answer 5

Leptospirosis

Question 6

This zoonotic disease is self-limiting but it associated with handling of cattle; affected people will show nodules on their hands

Answer 6

Bovine papular stomatitis

Question 7

Which zoonotic disease is transmitted mainly by chimpanzees to humans?

Answer 7

Hepatitis A

Question 8

This zoonotic disease of large animals is similar in appearance to foot & mouth disease; it can cause flu-like symptoms, vomiting, and vesicles in people, though it usually DOES NOT produce disease

Answer 8

Vesicular stomatitis

Question 9

This zoonotic disease is associated with diarrhea in pets or farm animals; infected humans will develop profuse, watery diarrhea

Answer 9

Cryptosporidium (C. parvum)

Question 10

Two diseases associated with human toxocariasis

Answer 10

Visceral larva migrans (assoc. with pica, fever, vomiting)

ocular larva migrans (mimics retinoblastoma)

Question 11

This zoonotic disease is associated with close animal contact; affected people can develop crusty lesions with a centralized clearing

Answer 11

Dermatophytosis

Question 12

Two species associated with mutation of influenza virus?

Answer 12

Birds and pigs

Question 13

This zoonotic disease causes unilateral conjunctivitis, lacrimation, and infrequent disease in humans (rarely causes flu-like symptoms).
Which group is at greatest risk?

Answer 13

Newcastle disease

poultry slaughterhouse workers

Question 14

This zoonotic disease is associated with reproductive disease in dogs (late abortions, infertility, stillborn pups) and fever, chills, and headache in people

Answer 14

Brucellosis

Question 15

This zoonotic disease, associated with MICE, causes a biphasic syndrome in humans and is rarely fatal

Answer 15

LCM

Question 16

Describe the two groupings of animals that are susceptible to tularemia

Answer 16

Group 1–>most susceptible; fatal disease (rabbits and lagomorphs)

Group 2–>v. susceptible but less fatal (responsible for transmission of disease…rodents and birds)