Sarcocystis

Question 1

Only sexual reproduction occurs
on the definitive host and that
sporogony is completed there

Answer 1

sarcocystis

Question 2

Fully sporulated oocysts and sporocysts are discharged in the host’s feces

Answer 2

sarcocystis

Question 3

infective stage with the production of sporocysts occurs in what area of definitive host

Answer 3

intestinal mucosa

Question 4

2 types of Sarcocystis

Answer 4

intestinal, muscle

Question 5

toxin secreted by the sarcocyst in the intermediate host

Answer 5

sarcocystin

Question 6

sarcosporidiosis in sheep agents

Answer 6

S. ovicanis, S. arieticanis

Question 7

sarcosporidiosis in goats agents

Answer 7

S. capracanis. S. hircicanis

Question 8

Associated with release of 2nd
wave of merozoites

Answer 8

Sarcosporidiosis in Pigs

Question 9

Causes a severe neurological disease in
horses, Equine Protozoal Encephalomyelitis (EPM)

Answer 9

Sarcocystis neurona

Question 10

predilection site of Besnoitia sp.

Answer 10

CT of the skin

Question 11

Definitive host of besnoitia

Answer 11

cat

Question 12

IH of besnoitia

Answer 12

Horses, ruminants, rodents, lizards

Question 13

endemic in tropical and sub-tropical
regions with high infection rate but low mortality and rare elsewhere

Answer 13

Besnoitiosis

Question 14

etiologic agent of cutaneous form of besnoitiosis in horses and burros

Answer 14

Besnoitia bennetti

Question 15

hardening of the skin creating a
leathery affect which is a symptom of Besnoitiosis

Answer 15

Lichenification of the muzzle

Question 16

etiologic agent of bovine besnoitosis

Answer 16

B. besnoiti

Question 17

chronic cutaneous besnoitia infection in cow referred to as?

Answer 17

scleroderma or elephant hide disease

Question 18

Oocysts are virtually indistinguishable from those of toxoplasma and neospora

Answer 18

Hammondia sp.

Question 19

Dh is cat and multiply in tissues of pigs, rats, mice, goats, hamsters, dogs

Answer 19

Hammondia hammondi

Question 20

DH are dogs and foxes

Answer 20

Hammondia heydorni

Question 21

IH of H. heydorni

Answer 21

Ruminants, guinea, pigs, dogs

Question 22

Has an obligatory two-host history

Answer 22

hammondia

Question 23

Only sporulated oocysts from cat feces are infectious to rats

Answer 23

Hammondia sp.

Question 24

In hammondia life cycle, only ______ from mouse tissue are infectious to cats

Answer 24

bradyzoites

Question 25

a parasite of the renal epithelium of
the horse

Answer 25

Klossiella equi

Question 26

a parasite of the renal epithelium
of the mouse

Answer 26

Klossiella muris

Question 27

Transmission occurs via ingestion of sporulated oocysts passed in urine

Answer 27

Mouse Parenteral Coccidia

Question 28

IH of toxoplasma

Answer 28

warm blooded animals

Question 29

banana shape of toxoplasma

Answer 29

Trophozoites (Tachyzoites)

Question 30

contains zoites or bradyzoites (slow multiplying forms), found in lungs, brain, liver, other organs of vertebrate host

Answer 30

pseudocyst or cyst

Question 31

produced after schizogony, gametogony and syngamy in the intestines of cats

Answer 31

oocysts

Question 32

seen in body fluids in early, acute infection

Answer 32

Tachyzoites

Question 33

released from ruptured tissue cysts that cause inflam. and block bv and necrosis

Answer 33

bradyzoites

Question 34

slow dividing stage

Answer 34

bradyzoites

Question 35

contained in cysts in muscles and brain tissue and eyes

Answer 35

bradyzoites

Question 36

rapid dividing stage

Answer 36

tachyzoites

Question 37

destroy cells specifically parenchymal and reticuloendothelial cells

Answer 37

tachyzoites