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Week One: Parasitology And Parasites That Infect (Chapter Two) Flashcards

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Kingdom, phylum, class, and subclass of monogenetic trematodes

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Subclass: monogenea

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What are trematodes?

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Flukes

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What are platyheminthes?

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Flatworms

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Monogenetic trematodes are found on what type of animals?

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Ectoparasites of fish, amphibians, and reptiles

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What are some characteristics of digenetic trematodes?

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Have two intermediate hosts

First and second intermediate hosts, and definitive host

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Kingdom, phylum, class, and subclass of digenetic trematodes

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: platyheminthes
Class: trematoda
Subclass: digenea

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What do digenetic trematodes look like?

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Flattened, leaf shaped flukes

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What type of animals are digenetic trematodes seen on

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Both large and small animals

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Where (in the body) are digenetic trematodes located?

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Primarily in GI tract

Can also infect lungs and vasculature

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What does an operculated egg look like?

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Stewie’s head

Oval like with openings on one or both sides

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What is paragonimus kellicotti

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Digenetic trematode

Lung fluke in cats and dogs

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What are eucestodes

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True tapeworms

Ribbon like flatworms

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What are the kingdom, phylum, and class of eucestodes?

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Eucestoda

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How are eucestodes frequently observed?

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Fecal flotation

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How do eucestodes receive their nutrients?

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Absorb nutrients through their tegument (skin)

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What is the intermediate host?

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The animals harboring the larval stages of a parasite

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What are nematodes?

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Round worms

Have enlongated, un segmented, cylindrical bodies

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What is the kingdom and phylum of nematodes?

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Nematoda

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What is the most numerous and complex parasite among domestic animals?

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Nematodes

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What are acanthocephalans?

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Thorny headed worms

Possess a spiny proboscis on anterior ends

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What is the kingdom and phylum of acanthocephalans?

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: acanthocephala

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What are hirudineans?

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Leeches

Blood feeding ectoparasites of wild and domesticated animals

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What are the kingdom, phylum, and class of hirudineans?

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: annelida
Class: hirudinea

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What are some examples of arthropods?

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Pentastomes
Crustaceans
Centipedes
Millipedes
Insects
Mites
Ticks
Scorpions
Spiders
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What are the kingdom and phylum of arthropods?

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Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: arthropoda

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What are pentastomes?

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Tongue worms or linguatulids

adults usually parasitize snakes and other reptiles

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What are crustaceans?

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Exctoparasites of fish and amphibians

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What are paragonimus kellicotti?

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What are myriopoda and what are some examples?

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Multiple feet parasites
Produce venoms and toxic substances
Centipedes and millipedes

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What are ictyoptera?

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Cockroaches

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What are coleoptera?

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What are Lepidoptera?

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Butterflies and moths

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What are hymenoptera?

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Ants, bees, and wasps

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What are hemiptera?

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What are mallophaga?

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Chewing or biting lice

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What are anoplura?

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Sucking lice

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what are diptera?

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Two winged flies

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What are siphonaptera?

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What are examples are acarina and what is different about them?

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Mites and ticks

Have four life stages

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What are the four life stages of acarina?

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Egg stage
Larval stage
Nymphal stage
Adult stage

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What are some characteristics of arthropods? (KNOW THIS)

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Important in veterinary medicine
Serve as causal agents
Serve as intermediate hosts (helminthes, protozoans)
Serve as vectors (bacteria, viruses, spirochetes, chlamydial agents)
May produce toxins or venomous substances
May parasitize the host as adult or juvenile stages

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What is the largest phylum in the animal kingdom?

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Arthropoda

Includes most of the ectoparasites seen in the veterinary profession

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What are Protista?

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Protozoa
Unicellular organisms
Majority are free living

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What are examples of Protista?

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Flagellates
Amoebae
Apicomplexans
Ciliates

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What are flagellates?

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Flagellum
Have long whip like or lash like appendage that is used by a group of protozoans as means of locomotion in a fluid medium

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What are amoeboa?

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Pseudopodia
Have false feet
Amorphous (no real shape)
Blob like
Flow along in a liquid medium
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What are apicomplexans?

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Most diverse and complicated

Locomotory organells are internal and not visible to the naked eye

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What are ciliates?

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Covered with tiny short hairs

Move by beating, undulating hairs in a liquid medium

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