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| What problems can mites cause? |
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Definition
temporary skin irritation
persistent dermatitis
allergic reaction
pathogen transmission
intermediate host of tapeworms etc |
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| What are the 7 developmental stages mites go through? |
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Definition
| egg, prelarvae, larvae, protonymph, deutonymph, tritonymph, and adult. |
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Term
| Which two families of mites use humans as their normal host? |
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Definition
| Demodicidae and Sarcoptidae |
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Definition
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| Names of mites in other animals? |
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Definition
D. Cati - cats
D. Bovis - Cattle
D. Caprae - goats |
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| What is the disease caused by mites? |
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Definition
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| How do you treat scabies? |
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Definition
| creams and lotions containing acaricide usually permethrin also oral medications. |
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Term
| What can problems can storage mite cause in humans? |
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Definition
| Allergic reactions in the respiratory tract lead to asthma and allergic rhinitis |
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Term
| What are the 5 distinct stages in the life cycle of house dust mites? |
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Definition
| egg, larva, protonymph, tritonymph, and adult |
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Term
| What is the worlds most dangerous scorpion? |
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Definition
| Yellow scorpion - Leiurus quinquestriatus |
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Term
| What are the 2 parts of a spider? |
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Definition
Front called cephalothorax
Hind called abdomen |
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Term
| What is the difference between venom in spiders? |
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Definition
Neurotoxic is in web dwellers
Cytotoxic is in non-web dwellers |
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Term
| What are some problems that funnel-web spiders cause? |
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Definition
| Death within a few minutes for infants and 1 day for adults, frothing at the mouth, dyspynea, sweating, etc. |
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Term
| How can horses die from blister beetles? |
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Definition
| through ingesting blister beetles trapped in baled alfalfa hay. |
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Term
| What do tapeworms use as their intermediate hosts? |
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Definition
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Term
| What can cockroaches serve as an intermediate host for? |
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Definition
| hookworms, giant human roundworm, pinworms, tapeworms, whipworms |
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Term
| How do you prevent cockroach entry? |
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Definition
Sanitation
Eliminate water
Eliminate Harborage |
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Term
| Why is it biologically relevant for us to be aware of stinging insects? |
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Definition
| stinging insects can harm us, even kill us, and that is relevant. |
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Term
| Why would stinging insects want to hurt us? |
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Definition
| They view us as predators |
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Term
| Causes of death from stinging insects? |
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Definition
| toxic envenomation and allergy |
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Term
| What does the Lethal Capacity mean? |
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Definition
| capacity of an insect venom is a measure of the maximum killing power by that insect. |
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Term
| Which insects leave their stinger in the skin? |
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Definition
| honey bees and harvester ants |
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Term
| What is forensic entomology? |
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Definition
| Dealing with the application of scientific knowledge to legal problems and proceedings. |
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Term
| What are the 3 intrinsic timers of death? |
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Definition
Algor Mortis - temp
Rigor Mortis - muscle stifness
Livor Mortis - Pooling of Blood |
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Term
| What are the 4 stages of decomposition? |
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Definition
1. Fresh stage - 0-3 days
2. Bloated stage - gases produce inflation of abdomen 4-10 days
3. Active decay stage - maggot feeding masses 10-50 days
4. Dry stage - dry skin, cartilage, bones 50-365 days |
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Term
| What is vacation syndrome? |
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Definition
| when cocoons remain dormant over years if they are not stimulated to hatch, and when people and pets return home which can lead to a massive wave of flea emergence |
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Term
| What is the endemic in Nigeria, Trinidad, and Tobago? |
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Definition
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Term
| How do you treat tungiasis? |
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Definition
| physical removal of the flea by use of foreceps or needles, application of topical anti-parasitic medicine, and surgery to remove nodules. |
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Term
| What are the five reasons the plague was likely to be viral and not actually the bubonic plague? |
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Definition
1. very different transmission speeds
2. difficult to explain spreading
3. different seasonality
4. different death rates
5. cycles and trends different |
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Term
| What is the major flea-borne disease? |
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Definition
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Term
| What are the 3 forms of plague? |
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Definition
Bubonic - lymph
Septicemia - blood
Pneumonic - lungs (most contagious airborne) |
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Term
| How to treat plague and typhus? |
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Definition
| Isolate and more recent doxycycline |
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Term
| How do you control the plague? |
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Definition
environmental sanitation
educating the public
preventative antibiotic therapy |
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Term
| What are the symptoms of typhus? |
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Definition
| Headache, backache, high fever, rash, nausea, vomiting, dry cough, abdominal pain |
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Term
| How do you prevent fleas? |
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Definition
Pill program - prevents flea from hatching when done once a month at mealtime
Egg-Stopper Collars - insect growth regulating ingredient
Spot-ons - droplets of material between |
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Term
| How can bedbugs be found? |
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Definition
| black stains on bed from feces visible blood stains if dead |
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Term
| What medical importance do bedbugs have? |
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Definition
| vector for hepatitis B and trypanosomiasis |
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Term
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Definition
| Fumigation of furniture, clothing or other personal items |
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Term
| What veterinary importance do bed bugs play? |
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Definition
| pest of poultry, with heavy infestations birds can become stressed and suffer from anemia and young birds may be killed due to blood loss |
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Term
| What are the important routes of transmission for Chagas disease? |
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Definition
| transfusion with infected blood and congenitally, |
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Term
| What are the phases and symptoms of Chagas? |
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Definition
1. Incubation period
2. Acute Phase
3. Asymptomatic phase
4.Chronic stage |
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Term
| What are the phases of diagnosis of Chagas? |
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Definition
1. Acute phase
2. Indeterminate and chronic phase |
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Term
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Definition
two drugs: Nifurtimox and Benznidazole
Control Vector, screening blood banks, drug treatment in acute phase |
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Term
| What are the challenges for new drugs for Chagas? |
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Definition
| lack of funding, clinical trials, techniques for monitoring and treatment, measuring drug effectiveness |
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Term
| How to evaluate ecological risks? |
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Definition
| how microorganism transformed to include characteristics of donor, stability of new genotype, impact on ecosystems, safety of GM organisms in field trials, impact on disease transmission |
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Term
| Why are there no cases of human Chagas disease in az? |
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Definition
| lack of suitable dwellings, low numbers of insects in houses, misdiagnosis of infection, delayed defecation times |
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Term
| What are the 3 life stages of ticks? |
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Definition
| larvae, nymphal stage, adult |
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Term
| What are the three types of ticks? |
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Definition
| one host, two host, and three host ticks |
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Term
| How do ticks find their hosts? |
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Definition
| questing - crawling up stems with the front legs extended when a host passes by. |
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Term
| Why are ticks great disease vectors? |
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Definition
| multiple hosts, long duration of feeding, large bloodmeal, longevity, survival |
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Term
| What are some tick borne diseases? |
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Definition
Lyme disease - most common in US from deer tick
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and human babesiosis |
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Term
| How do you treat Lyme disease? |
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Definition
| antibiotics - doxycycline. |
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Term
| How to prevent Lyme disease? |
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Definition
| avoid areas with ticks, keep off of skin, check for ticks everyday in infested areas. |
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