Zoonotic Diseases

Question 1

True or False: Fungal diseases are usually airborne.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Small microscopic organisms that generally live on dead or decaying organic matter.

Answer 2

Fungi

Question 3

Efficient organisms which do not grow in the skin, in fact, their growth occurs only within the dead, keratinized layers of the skin, the anagen stage in hair, and nails. They avoid healthy, live skin entirely.

Answer 3

Zoophilic Fungi

Question 4

_______ can be transmitted from animal to man, from man to animal, from the soil and from the air.

Answer 4

Zoophilic Fungi

Question 5

_________ do not synthesize their own food and must depend on on complex organisms for nutrition.

Answer 5

Zoophilic Fungi

Question 6

How do you get rid of Chetletella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff?)

Answer 6

Kill the mites with insecticide.

Question 7

How is cat scratch fever contracted?

Answer 7

Bites, scratches or “licks”

Question 8

How is anthrax transmitted?

Answer 8

Bacterial Infection from eating contaminated meat of warm-blooded animals.

Question 9

True or False: Toxoplasmosis can cause abortion.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

How is Chetletiella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff) contracted?

Answer 10

Direct contact with skin inhibited by mites.

Question 11

In the parasitic disease _________, mites do not burrow but live in the layer of the epidermis moving swiftly in dermal debris, occasionally clinging firmly to the epidermis, and piercing the skin.

Answer 11

Chetletiella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff)

Question 12

Symptoms include grouped inflamed lesions which form on the body’s trunk and buttocks. They become pustular, rupturing to produce a yellow crusted lesion which is highly inflamed, separate and distinguished from surrounding skin.

Answer 12

Chetletiella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff)

Question 13

A disease that can be transmitted to man by animals.

Answer 13

Zoonosis

Question 14

Typically one cell organisms which have no chlorophill, multiply by simple division that can be seen only with a microscope.

Answer 14

Bacteria

Question 15

Ultramicroscopic or submicroscopic infective agents that cause various diseases in animals.

Answer 15

Virus

Question 16

Regarded both as living organisms and as complex proteins sometimes involving nucleic acid, enzymes, etc.

Answer 16

Virus

Question 17

Bacterial Infection from eating contaminated meat of warm-blooded animals.

Answer 17

Anthrax

Question 18

Name three diseases with “flu-like” symptoms.

Answer 18

Lyme Disease
Q Fever
Plague
Listeriosis

Question 19

In the early stages, this disease mimics the flu.

Answer 19

Lyme Disease

Question 20

Symptoms of this disease include lethargy, headaches, fever, stiff neck, myalglas (generalized muscle aches, sometimes with severe cramping), joint pain, backache, sore throat, enlarged lymph nodes, abdominal pain, nausea and/or vomiting, dizziness, non-productive cough, skin rashes

Answer 20

Lyme Disease

Question 21

Name three symptoms of Salmonellosis

Answer 21

vomiting
diarrhea
fever
body aches

Question 22

In this type of ringworm, affected hairs will frequently but not always fluoresce to a bright yellow-green when viewed under an ultra-violet light.

This type of ringworm is the most common zoophilic fungus of dogs and cats that may cause a more inflammatory reaction in man.

Answer 22

Microsporum Canis

M. Canus

Question 23

In this type of ringworm, fluorescence is rare and is characterized by thick, well-circumscribed, tightly adherent gray crusts.

Answer 23

Microsporum Gypseum

M. Gypseum

Question 24

Inflammatory type of ringworm. Appears as dry, scaley, widely spread and scattered lesions. May also cause infection in canine nails (onychomycosis).

Answer 24

Trichophyton Mentagrophytes

T. Mentagrophytes

Question 25

What is the difference between bacterial and viral infections

Answer 25

Bacteria are one-celled organisms.

Viruses are both living organisms and complex proteins.

Question 26

What is an effective disinfectant program for your salon?

Answer 26

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