Test 2

Question 1

Aedes Mosquito

Answer 1

Transmits dengue, yellow fever, zika, LaCrosse Encephalitis

Question 2

Anopheles Mosquito

Answer 2

Transmits Malaria
(Plasmodium spp)

Question 3

Lice
Pediculus humanus humanus

Answer 3

Transmits Typhus
Rickettsia prowazekii

Question 4

Fleas
(Siphonaptera)

Answer 4

Transmits Plague
(Yersinia pestis)

Question 5

Tsetse
(Glossinidae)

Answer 5

Trasmits African Sleeping sickness
(Trypanosoma brucei)

Question 6

Reduviidae
(Assassin Bug)

Answer 6

Transmits Chagas
(Trypanosoma cruzi)

Question 7

Diptera

Answer 7

Culicidae (mosq)
Glossinidae (tsets)
Simulidae (Bl.Fly)
Tabinidae (Horse)

Question 8

Diptera II

Answer 8

Certoponidae
Brachycera
Cyclorraph
Muscidae
Calliphoridae

Question 9

Life stages Ticks

Answer 9

Egg, larvae, nymph, adult

Question 10

Natural Nadality

Answer 10

An environment that allows all three to come together (Host, Vector, Pathogen)

Question 11

Hematophagy (Triad)

Answer 11

Blood sucking
(Between host and vector)

Question 12

Vector competance (Triad)

Answer 12

Between vector and pathogen

Question 13

Diptera

Answer 13

Flies

Question 14

Siphonopters

Answer 14

Fleas

Question 15

Pidiculus humanus
humanus

Answer 15

Lice

Question 16

Acari

Answer 16

Ticks

Question 17

Psychodidae

Answer 17

Sand flies

Question 18

Culicidae

Answer 18

Mosquitoes

Question 19

Culex
(Pipens)

Answer 19

Viruses and worms

Question 20

Aedes albopictus

Answer 20

Asian tiger mosquito
Transmits: dengue, chickungonya, dog heartworm

Question 21

Aedes aegypti

Answer 21

Yellow fever, dengue, zika, chickungunya, human filarial worms

Question 22

Nematodes
(Worms)

Answer 22

Dog Heart worm
Human lymphatic filariasis

Question 23

Protozoa

Answer 23

Malaria
Chagas
Afr. Sleep Sickness

Question 24

Bacterial

Answer 24

Typhus
Plague
Lyme disease

Question 25

Viral

Answer 25

Yellow Fever Dengue Fever West Nile Fever

Question 26

EEE (Virus)

Answer 26

Eastern Equine Encephalitis

Question 27

WEE (Virus)

Answer 27

Western Equine Encephalitis

Question 28

-emia

Answer 28

Blood

Question 29

Pathogens big to small

Answer 29

Worms/nematode Protozoa Bacteria Viruses

Question 30

Where do body lice live? Pediculus humanus humanus

Answer 30

In clothes

Question 31

Amblyomma americanum

Answer 31

Lonestar Tick Trasmits Francisella an Ehrlichia (alpha-gal sydrome)

Question 32

Ixodes scapularis

Answer 32

Deer Tick (Black Legged Tick)

Question 33

Lyme disease pathogen

Answer 33

Berrelia burgdoferi (Spiral Bacteria) Ixodes ricinus

Question 34

Yersinia pestis

Answer 34

Extra cellular gram negative pathogen Bubonic plague Fleas

Question 35

Intra cellular pathogens

Answer 35

Carrions disease Trench fever Cat scratch fever

Question 36

Chronic State of Typhus

Answer 36

Brill-zinnser disease

Question 37

What is the Haller’s organ?

Answer 37

An antenna on the front leg of a tick

Question 38

Onchocervus volvulus disease

Answer 38

Onchocerciasis (River Blindness) Vector: Black Fly Reservoir: Humans

Question 39

Blood sucking arthropod saliva components…..

Answer 39

Anticoagulants Anesthetics Vasodilators Immune system Opportunity for infection

Question 40

Lyme disease symptoms

Answer 40

*Rashes of unk origin *Unexplained chronic fever *swollen lymph node

Question 41

Powassan Virus epidemiology

Answer 41

Flaviviridae; Tick borne (zoonotic) Encephalitis

Question 42

Lyme disease epidemiology

Answer 42

1. Microbiologist isolated spirochaete bacteria 2. Medical entomologists found ticks carrying it 3. Epidemiology made the connection ticks=bacteria 4. Life cycle determined

Question 43

Pathogens that are Apicomplexa

Answer 43

Babesiosis (Babesia)

Question 44

West nile reservoir

Answer 44

Birds and mosquitoes *Humans are a dead end host

Question 45

Components of a virus

Answer 45

Nucleic acid Capsid Envelope Enzymes

Question 46

Intracellular Rickettsial Bacteria

Answer 46

Typhus Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Question 47

Spirochaete Bacteria

Answer 47

Lyme disease

Question 48

Extracellular Bacteria: Yersinia pestis

Answer 48

Bubonic plague

Question 49

Major long-range signal used by most hematophages?

Answer 49

Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Question 50

What is a hematophage?

Answer 50

A blood sucker

Question 51

What is not found in a worm?

Answer 51

Kinetoplasts (Found in protozoa // ap comlexon

Question 52

Which of the following is a protozoa?

Answer 52

Plasmodium falciparum

Question 53

What causes river blindness?

Answer 53

A parasitic worm: Onchocerca volvulus

Question 54

All a virus does is replicate itself.

Answer 54

True, but also more complicated

Question 55

Which is the largest (in size)?

Answer 55

Plasmodium vivax Typhus Yellow fever Wuchereria(worm) Rickettsia Trypanosoma br.

Question 56

What kills the most people per year (now)?

Answer 56

Malaria

Question 57

Flying squirrels carry the plague in NC?

Answer 57

False; they carry typhus

Question 58

What is the main vector of malaria?

Answer 58

Anopheles mosquitoes

Question 59

What is encephalitis?

Answer 59

A sign of disease (swollen brain)

Question 60

Where would one find most cases of Chagas disease?

Answer 60

Central and South America

Question 61

How many historical plague outbreaks have there been?

Answer 61

Four: Justinian, Black death, Renaissance, Fourth Pandemic (China)

Question 62

What is the name of the first historical outbreak of plague?

Answer 62

Justinian

Question 63

What is the stinger on a wasp?

Answer 63

Modified ovipositor

Question 64

Powassan virus uses the same tick vector as Lyme disease?

Answer 64

True; the map indicates it follows the same pattern as Lyme.