Matching Pairs Parasitology Clinical Sign MatchingOnline version Match the appropriate clinical signs/diseases that each parasite is associated with by Olivia Ortiz 1 Trichuris vulpis 2 Aelurostrongylus abstrusus 3 Toxocara cati 4 Ancylostoma tubaeforme/braziliense 5 Toxocara canis 6 Toxascaris leonina 7 Filaroides osleri 8 Eucoleus boehmi 9 Ancylostoma caninum 10 Uncinaria stenocephala causes blood loss in puppies, anemia, melena, and cutaneous larva migrans tenesmus; mucus + bright red blood (large bowel diarrhea); emaciation; dehydration; anemia persistant, harsh, dry cough; dyspnea; death causes anemia, pale mucous membranes, weakness, melena, diarrhea, and cutaneous larva migrans nodules in alveolar ducts; chronic cough; dyspnea; wheezing; mimic asthma or bronchitis causes death in neonatal puppies, pot-bellied appearance, dull coat, diarrhea/constipation, and visceral/ocular larva mirgans least pathogenic, but it can cause vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain respiratory (sneezing, nasal discharge, coughing) causes mucous diarrhea, poor growth, enteropathy, and cutaneous larva migrans causes vomiting, diarrhea, pot-bellied appearance, coughing, and visceral/ocular larva migrans 1 Dioctophyma renale 2 Pearsonema spp. 3 Baylisascaris procyonis 4 Eucoleus aerophilus 5 Strongyloides stercoralis 6 Haemonchus contortus 7 Ollulanus tricuspis 8 Spirocerca lupi 9 Physaloptera spp. 10 Dirofilaria immitis non-pathogenic; lower uninary tract symptoms (hematuria, pollakiuria, dysuria) asymptomatic (unless present in large numbers); neurological diseases Strongyloidiasis; intractable diarrhea; coughing; dermatitis; intense pruritis; death (severe, in puppies) vomiting; anorexia; dark, tarry stools respiratory (sneezing, nasal discharge, coughing) or urinary (hematuria, pollakiuria, dysuria) mass interference with digestion; vomiting; emaciation; dysphagia, occlusion of esophagus; spondylitis; malignant tumors coughing; exercise intolerance; right sided heart failure nervousness; emaciation; urine retention; death catarrhal gastritis; wight loss; anorexia; chronic vomiting bottle jaw; blood sucking parasite = anemia, hypoproteinemia, edema 1 Strongyloides papillosus 2 Nematodirus spathiger 3 Ostertagia ostertagi 4 Oesophagostomum spp. 5 Parelaphostrongylus tenuis 6 Toxocara vitulorum 7 Trichuris suis 8 Trichinella spiralis 9 Trichuris ovis 10 Ascaris suum unthriftiness, diarrhea, poor growth, and abdominal pain black diarrhea; abscesses; possible perforation; nodule formation in cecum blood feeders resulting in dark, tarry diarrhea diarrhea; protein loss; poor growth; bottle jaw; loss of HCl production (pepsinogen not activated) asymptomatic (deer); pathology of CNS in wild ungulates = ataxia; lameness; stiffness; circling; paralysis diarrhea; mucoid enteritis; poor growth blood feeding = anemia diarrhea, weight loss, unthriftiness, dehydration, and anorexia liver scarring = organ condemnation; thumps in piglets diarrhea; vomiting; muscle pain; weight loss 1 Gasterophilus intestinalis 2 Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus 3 Parascaris equorum 4 Strongylus vulgaris 5 Strongyloides westeri 6 Strongyloides ransomi 7 Stephanurus dentatus 8 Cyathostomes 9 Oxyuris equi 10 Habronema spp. large number of bots in stomach can cause a rupture of the stomach w/peritonitis and death irritation around the rectum and tail rubbing neonatal diarrhea, dehydration, mortality abdominal pain, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea diarrhea, self limiting colitis (mass emergence of larvae); weight loss; diarrhea increase in mucus secretions w/ possible hemorrhage and ulcerations; habronemiasis verminous aneurysms, thromboembolic arteritis, colic, death weight loss; organ damage; strongyle-type eggs in urine pot-bellied; cough; poor growth; risk of intestinal impaction 1 Metastrongylus apri 2 Echinococcus granulosus 3 Echinococcus spp. 4 Onchocerca cervicalis 5 Taenia spp. 6 Setaria equina 7 Dictyocaulus spp. 8 Dictyocaulus arnfieldi 9 Muellerius capillaris 10 Dipylidium caninum hydatid disease in humans and livestock pressure atrophy and impaired organ function; hydatid cysts larvae may migrate to ocular and nervous systems = neurologic diseases; lumbar paralysis verminous pneumonia; abdominal breathing (thumps); scarring in the liver from migration (white spot) chronic coughing; pneumonia; weight loss coughing; nasal discharge; pneumonia; can carry without obvious signs coughing; pneumonia; weight loss scooting behavior (migrating proglottids) cysticercosis in humans caused by T. solium and affects the CNS tissues swellings on the withers of a horse when it encysts in the nuchal ligament; dermatitis spotting proglottids in stool; scooting behavior 1 Alaria spp. 2 Echinococcus multilocularis 3 Hymenolepis spp. 4 Anoplocephala perfoliata 5 Spirometra mansonoides 6 Mesocestoides spp. 7 Paragonimus kellicoti 8 Nanophyteus salmincola 9 Diphyllobothrium latum 10 Moniezia spp. contributes to colic, intussusception, perforation, obstruction, rupture adult infection in dog is asymptomatic while in humans it causes severe diarrhea; severe peritonitis and ascites = larval infection in dogs and cats lethargy, coughing, respiratory diseases abdominal pain, diarrhea, and loss of appetite abdominal pain, diarrhea, and vomiting, along with weight loss, fatigue; Diphyllobothriasis infection from ingesting eating undercooked frog legs produces sparganosis in humans Neorickettsia helminthoeca; fever, vomiting, diarrhea, ocular discharge, lymph node enlargement heavy infections that can reduce growth in young animals alveolar achinococcosis (potentially fatal) and hydatid cysts 1 Dicrocoelium dendriticum 2 Trypanosoma cruzi 3 Giardia duodenalis 4 Cystoisospora/Eimeria spp. 5 Heterbilharzia americanum 6 Leishmania spp. 7 Eimeria leuckarti 8 Platynosomum fastosum 9 Fasicola hepatica 10 Tritrichomonas foetus malabsoprtion and diarrhea (called traveler's diarrhea); giardiasis coccidiosis = diarrhea; dehydration; poor growth infertility, abortion, pyometra; Trichinellosis skin ulcers (c) fever, weight loss, and enlarged spleen/liver (v) Trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease); myocarditis; sudden death bloody diarrhea, weight loss, emaciation anemia; weight loss; hepatitis; bile duct obstruction; secondary clostridial infections; (anorexia, abdominal pain, diarrhea = horses) subclinical, heavy burdens = chronic liver disease often asymptomatic; diarrhea, decreased appetite, and mild depression (foals) cholangitis; hepatobiliary diseases; jaundice; diarrhea; weight loss; liver dysfunction 1 Eimeria macusaniensis 2 Ctenocephalides felis 3 Anoplura spp. 4 Toxoplasma gondii 5 Mallophaga spp. 6 Cryptosporidium spp. 7 Sarcocyst spp. 8 Cystoisospora suis 9 Neospora caninum 10 Eimeria zuernii irritation; pruritus; alopecia; dermatitis; anemia irritation; pruritus; alopecia; dermatitis watery diarrhea (no blood) and vomiting watery diarrhea; dehydration; intestinal inflammation; cryptosporidosis (C. parvum) hemorrhagic diarrhea subclinical in dogs/cats; economic losses, abortion, fever, muscle inflammation, and reduced performance (livestock); S. neruona causes EPM in horses severe enteritis; lethargy; weight loss; decreased appetite; shock; fatal neurologic disease neuromuscular disease (ataxia, paralysis, muscle atrophy); progressive hindlimb weakness in pups; abortion and fetal loss in cattle Dipylidium caninum and Bartonella; anemia; flea-allergy dermatitis; miliary dermatitis; alopecia; miliary excoriations; pruritus fetal death or neurological birth defects; congenital toxoplasmosis 1 Rhipicephalus annulatus 2 Otobius megnini 3 Amblyomma americanum 4 Haemaphysalis longicornis 5 Argas persicus 6 Damalinia ovis/Damalinia equi 7 Sarcoptes scabei 8 Ixodes scapularis 9 Dermacentor variabilis 10 Notoedres cati rickettsia (rocky mountain spotted fever) fleece/coat damage lyme, rickettsia, anaplasma, and erlichia borrelia burgdorferi (lyme); anaplasmosis avian spirochetosis erlichia; babesia; Texas cattle fever head mange in cats; scabies erlichia; tularemia; cytauxzoon felis scabies; pruritus; pinpoint eruptions; hyperplasia; hyperpigmentation otitis externa; secondary bacterial infections 1 Tabanus/Chrysops spp. 2 Cheyletiella spp. 3 Haematobia irritans 4 Simulium/Culicoides spp. 5 Otodectes cynotis 6 Chorioptes bovis 7 Melophagus ovinus 8 Psoroptes ovis 9 Demodex canis 10 Triatome spp. 11 blow flies, flesh flies, and screwworms irritation, blood loss, and major production losses in infested herds “sweet itch” in horses; Onchocerca; bluetongue virus equine infectious anemia and anaplasmosis causes the breakage of skin; secondary skin infections (staphlococcal bacteria); localized demodecosis, erythema, alopecia Chagas disease; acute myocarditis, arrhythmias, heart enlargement, death mange lesion on sheep; emaciation; body condition loss pruritus, wool damage, and reduced fleece quality excessive dandruff, pruritis dark brown-black crumble exudate in the ear canal pastern dermatitis in horses; udder sores in cattle myiasis