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Veterinary Parasitology Exam Questionsand Answers (Latest Update 2025)
Spirocerca lupi - Correct Answer ✅Esophageal worm
"paperclip"
can cause obstruction of esophagus
Physaloptera - Correct Answer ✅Stomach worm
Dogs, cats
vomiting, anorexia, melena
adults suck blood, may be in vomitus
Toxocara/Toxascaris - Correct Answer ✅True roundworms
do not attach- free swimming
anemia, melena
milk, placenta
V/D, weight loss, poor weight gain, pot belly
visceral larval migrans, ocular larval migrans
No intermed. host
Playing with puppies, kittens, shelter animals
Zoonotic
Ancylostoma - Correct Answer ✅Hookworms
Direct lifecycle
Ferocious blood suckers
,Veterinary Parasitology Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
Transmission through skin, milk, placenta
Oval, thin walled, morula
"Creeping Eruptions"
cutaneous larval migrans
Zoonotic
Strongyloides sterocoralis - Correct Answer ✅Threadworm
Transmission through skin, milk, ingestion of larva
Diarrhea, young pups
larva produced by parthenogenic female
Zoonotic
Trichuris vulpis - Correct Answer ✅Whipworm
Dog, rare in cats
prominent polar plugs
mucus coated stool, diarrhea, anemia, colitis, flatulence
Eggs only passed every third day
Dirofilaria immitus - Correct Answer ✅Heartworm
Intermed host: Female mosquito
Damage to heart, exercise intolerance, ascites
Indirect lifecycle
Wolbachia bacteria
, Veterinary Parasitology Exam Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2025)
Zoonotic
Dracunculus - Correct Answer ✅Guinea Worm
Skin
Worm coming out of skin
Aelurostongyles - Correct Answer ✅Feline Lungworm
Bronchioles, alveolar ducts
Ingest snail, slugs
Fecal float, Baermann, transtracheal wash
Filaroides - Correct Answer ✅Canine Lungworm
Trachea, bronchi, lungs
Mom passes to puppies by licking them
Eucoleus - Correct Answer ✅Capillarid
Lungs
Coughing
Eggs similar to whips but polar plugs are off-center
Pearsonema - Correct Answer ✅Capillaria plica
Urinary bladder - eggs in urine
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