Vector-Borne Zoonoses — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Soft tick (Ornithodoros) causes _____ relapsing fever, whereas the louse causes epidemic relapsing fever.

Answer: endemic

Extra: Endemic relapsing fever is caused by Borrelia species transmitted by soft ticks (Ornithodoros). Epidemic relapsing fever is caused by Borrelia recurrentis transmitted by the human body louse. Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) is primarily transmitted via inhalation of aerosols from infected livestock, not by ticks.

Flashcard 2: _____ is a zoonotic bacteria that grows on 5% sheep blood agar

Answer: Pasteurella multocida

Flashcard 3: The Ixodes tick is involved in the transmission of _____, Anaplasma spp., and Babesia

Answer: Borrelia burgdorferi

Flashcard 4: _____ is a zoonotic bacteria that forms caseating granulomas with regional lymphadenopathy

Answer: Francisella tularensis

Flashcard 5: _____ fever is a complication of Bartonella henselae infection

Answer: Cat scratch

Flashcard 6: Cutaneous larva migrans is caused by non-human hookworms like Ancylostoma _____, Ancylostoma caninum

Answer: braziliense

Flashcard 7: The image shows the _____ which is responsible for the transmission of Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Answer: trombiculid mite

Flashcard 8: Hard ticks (Ixodidae) can transmit which 6 major conditions? _____

Answer: Tick paralysis, Lyme disease, Rickettsial fevers (e.g., RMSF), Tularemia, Babesiosis, and Viral hemorrhagic fevers (KFD, CCHF)

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Answer: rickettsial disease and vectors

Extra: typhus

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Answer: rickettsial disease and vectors

Extra: typhus