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Veterinary Parasitology - Exam 1 Questions and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
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Veterinary Parasitology - Exam 1Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
What are some examples of helminths? - Correct Answer
✅Flatworms (Cestodes/Trematodes)
Nematodes
What are the types of parasites? - Correct Answer
✅Helminths
Protozoa
Arthropods
What are examples of arthropods? - Correct Answer
✅Insects (flies/fleas/lice)
Arachnids (ticks/mites)
What is a direct life cycle? - Correct Answer ✅only one host
- infective stage develops in the environment
What is an indirect life cycle? - Correct Answer ✅more than
1 host - has intermediate hosts required for infection
,Veterinary Parasitology - Exam 1
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
What is the prepotent period (PPP)? - Correct Answer
✅time from acquisition of a parasite by a host to evidence of
mature parasite diagnostically
What is a definitive host? - Correct Answer ✅normal host in
which parasite reaches sexual maturity and reproduction
occurs
What is an intermediate host? - Correct Answer ✅parasite
develops/grows but doesn't reach sexual maturity - required
part of life cycle
What is the importance of arthropods in disease/parasite
transmission? - Correct Answer ✅can serve as
intermediate host or vector
What is a paratenic/transport host? - Correct Answer ✅not
required part of life cycle - parasite survives but does not
develop
,Veterinary Parasitology - Exam 1
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
What is an aberrant host? - Correct Answer ✅not normally
part of life cycle - accidental infections
What are the 3 possible ways for Helminths to invade host
tissue? - Correct Answer ✅-ingestion by host of infective
stage
-direct penetration through skin
-penetration through skin wound by insect vector
What is an example of a nematode? - Correct Answer
✅roundworm
What is an example of a cestode? - Correct Answer
✅tapeworm
What is an example of a trematode? - Correct Answer
✅flukes
What is the best method of parasite control? - Correct
Answer ✅chemotherapy - anthelmintic drugs
, Veterinary Parasitology - Exam 1
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
What is usually found on a drug label? - Correct Answer ✅-
hosts for which the drug is approved
-proven efficacy for species and stages of parasites
-recommended dosages
-withdrawal times (food animals)
Who is able to use drugs extra-label? - Correct Answer
✅veterinarians with a vet-client-patient relationship and
appropriate diagnosis
What is the therapeutic index (TI)? - Correct Answer ✅dose
that produces toxic effect/dose that produces desired effect
higher is better
When is the label WDT not valid? - Correct Answer ✅If
using extra-label
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