Viral 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 an obligate intracellular bacterium that forms spore-like structures (found in animal feces and placental products).

Answer: Coxiella burnetii

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

Answer: Borrelia burgdorferi

Flashcard 4: Can sporothrix be transmitted by infected animals?_____

Answer: Yes

Flashcard 5: _____ is a spirochete found in water contaminated with animal urine

Answer: Leptospira interrogans

Flashcard 6: Orf or ecthyma contagiosum is commonly caused by _____ virus, usually after contact with an infected animal

Answer: Parapox

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