Veterinary Parasitology 5333
ENTOMOLOGY SECTION
- SIGNIFICANCE OF ARTHROPODS IN VETERINARY MEDICINE
- AS PARASITES
- AS TRANSMITTERS OF PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS
- TYPES OF TRANSMISSION.
- METHODS BY WHICH ARTHROPODS TRANSMIT ORGANISMS.
- ARTHROPODS AS INTERMEDIATE HOSTS FOR PROTOZOA AND HELMINTHS.
- ARTHROPODS AS RESERVOIRS FOR DISEASE AGENTS
- VENOMOUS SPIDERS
- BLACK WIDOW - Latrodectus mactans
- FIDDLE-BACKED - Loxosceles reclusa
- Common Hard Ticks
- Common Soft Ticks
- Tick Paralysis
- Tick Control
- Itch and Mange Mites
- Burrowing Mange Mites
- Non-Burrowing Mange Mites
- Other Mites Causing Skin or Tissue Irritation
- Other Mites
- Treatments
- LICE
- Anoplura (Sucking lice) and Mallophaga (Biting lice)
- Host list for lice of domestic animals
- Swine
- Sheep
- Horses
- Cattle
- Dogs
- Poultry
- Treatments
- Important species of fleas
- Flea bite allergy
- Treatment
- INSECTICIDES
- OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL INSECTICIDES
- INDOOR PREMISE SPRAYS AND FOGGERS
- PRODUCTS FOR USE ON THE ANIMAL
- BLISTER BEETLES
- DUNG BEETLES
- Mosquitoes
- Other blood feeding flies
- MYIASIS PRODUCING DIPTERA LARVAE
- Treatments
- Cattle grub treatments
- Pesticides for livestock to control flies
- Entamoeba histolytica
- Acanthamoeba spp
- Entamoeba coli
- Naegleria fowleri
- Balantidium coli
- Ichthyophthirus multifillis
Intestinal and urogenital Parasites
- Trichomonas foetus
- Trichomonas vaginalis
- Trichomonas suis
- Trichomonas gallinae
- Trichomonas gallinarum
- Trichomonas spp
- Trichomonas equi
- Hexamina meleagridis
- Pentatrichomonas (Trichomonas) hominis
- Giardia lamblia
- Chilomastix spp
- Histomonas meleagridis
- Trypanosoma bruci gambiensie
- Trypanosoma bruci rhodensi
- Trypanosoma bruci bruciy
- Trypanosoma congolense
- Trypanosoma vivax - Similar to T. congolense.
- Trypanosoma equiperdum
- Trypanosoma cruzi
- Trypanosoma theileri
- Trypanosoma cervi
- Old World
- Leishmania donovani complex
- Leishmania tropica complex
- New World
- Leishmania braziliensis complex
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Sarcoystus spp
- Encephalitozoon spp.
- Hammondia
- Besnoitia spp.
- Hepatozoon spp-
- Plasmodium vivax
- Haemoproteus columbae
- Leucocytozoon spp
- Babesia bigemina
- Babesia sp.
- Theileria parva parva
- Theileria parva lawrenci- Similar to T. parva parva
- Theileria cervi
- Cytauxzoon felis
- Anaplasma marginale - Agent of gall disease throughout the world.
- Ehrlichia spp
- Epirythrozoon spp
- Haemobartonella spp
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Cowdria ruminatium
LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS
- Feces
- Blood
- Tissue impressions.
- Aspirates
- Examination of material
- Other procedures
- Immunodiagnostic procedures.
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