2024 VTNE Exam Parasites ( Version 3 ) Latest Questions With Complete Grade A Answers
- What is the scientific name for the most common roundworm parasite in cats and dogs?
Answer: Toxocara canis
- What zoonotic disease do Roundworms cause in humans?
Answer:
Ocular Larval Migrans
- What medications are used to treat Roundworms?
Answer: piperazine, pyrantel, or fenbendazole
- What part of the body do roundworms live in?
Answer: Small Intestine
- What are the two most common species of Hookworms?
Answer: Ancylostoma caninum and Uncinaria stenocephala
- What zoonotic disease do hookworms cause in humans?
Answer: Cutaneous Larval Migrans
- What medications are used to treat Hookworms?
Answer: fenbendazole, pyrantel
- How are hookworms transmitted?
Answer: Fecal-oral, transmammary (common in puppies), and percutaneous infections.
- What is the scientific name for Whipworms?
Answer: Trichuris vulpis
- How are whipworms transmitted?
Answer: Fecal-oral transmission
- When an animal is severely infected with whipworms, what two issues are commonly
seen?
Answer: hyperkalemia and hyponatremia
- Where does the whipworm live in the body?
Answer: Large intestine
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- How are whipworms treated?
Answer: Treated with fenbendazole, may be prevented with Interceptor (milbemycin)
- Which parasitic worm is classified as a Cestode?
Answer: Tapeworms
- What 3 worms are classified as Nematodes?
Answer: Roundworms, Whipworms, and Hookworms are all of the Nematode genus species.
- What is the scientific name for Tapeworm?
Answer: Dipylidium caninum
- How is the tapeworm transmitted?
Answer: The flea is the intermediate host, usually transmitted by ingestion of the flea when the animal is grooming itself.
- How are tapeworms treated?
Answer: Praziquantel is the treatment of choice (Drontal and Profender both contain this medication)
- How is Diplyidium Caninum diagnosed?
Answer: The proglottid segments are re- leased from the end of the worm and shed in the feces. They resemble a grain of rice and may be seen in the feces or around the anus of the pet. These are usually diagnosed via seeing the segments grossly. The eggs are not always seen on a fecal float unless a proglottid breaks open prior to being passed in the feces and eggs are released
- What type of parasite is classified under the Genus species Trematode?
Answer: -Flukes
- What is the scientfic name for a Fluke?
Answer: Fasciola hepatica, The most well known fluke in veterinary medicine and is known as the common liver fluke; the adults can be found in the hepatic bile ducts.
- What species are flukes most commonly seen in?
Answer: Cattle and Sheep
- How are Flukes transmitted?
Answer: Flukes require a snail as an intermediate host, and thus the parasite is most common in areas of high rainfall or moist environments
- What medication is used to treat the parasite Fasciola hepatica?
Answer: albendazole
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