Zoonotic Diseases Flashcards
True or False: Fungal diseases are usually airborne.
True
Small microscopic organisms that generally live on dead or decaying organic matter.
Fungi
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.
Zoophilic Fungi
_______ can be transmitted from animal to man, from man to animal, from the soil and from the air.
Zoophilic Fungi
_________ do not synthesize their own food and must depend on on complex organisms for nutrition.
Zoophilic Fungi
How do you get rid of Chetletella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff?)
Kill the mites with insecticide.
How is cat scratch fever contracted?
Bites, scratches or “licks”
How is anthrax transmitted?
Bacterial Infection from eating contaminated meat of warm-blooded animals.
True or False: Toxoplasmosis can cause abortion.
True
How is Chetletiella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff) contracted?
Direct contact with skin inhibited by mites.
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.
Chetletiella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff)
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.
Chetletiella Dermatitis (Walking Dandruff)
A disease that can be transmitted to man by animals.
Zoonosis
Typically one cell organisms which have no chlorophill, multiply by simple division that can be seen only with a microscope.
Bacteria
Ultramicroscopic or submicroscopic infective agents that cause various diseases in animals.
Virus
Regarded both as living organisms and as complex proteins sometimes involving nucleic acid, enzymes, etc.
Virus
Bacterial Infection from eating contaminated meat of warm-blooded animals.
Anthrax
Name three diseases with “flu-like” symptoms.
Lyme Disease
Q Fever
Plague
Listeriosis
In the early stages, this disease mimics the flu.
Lyme Disease
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
Lyme Disease
Name three symptoms of Salmonellosis
vomiting
diarrhea
fever
body aches
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.
Microsporum Canis
M. Canus
In this type of ringworm, fluorescence is rare and is characterized by thick, well-circumscribed, tightly adherent gray crusts.
Microsporum Gypseum
M. Gypseum
Inflammatory type of ringworm. Appears as dry, scaley, widely spread and scattered lesions. May also cause infection in canine nails (onychomycosis).
Trichophyton Mentagrophytes
T. Mentagrophytes
