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Vector for heartworm disease, West Nile Virus, and other viral diseases |
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Vector for fly bite dermatitis, commonly on ear tips |
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Pediculosis; itching and hair loss
-intermediate host for tapeworms |
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pediculosis; itching and hair loss |
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anemia; itching and hair loss
- Int. hosts for tapeworms and nematodes |
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Mosquitos Biting Flies Biting Lice Sucking Lice Fleas |
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1. Scabies 6. American Dog Tick, Wood Tick 2. Feline Scabies 7. Lone Star Tick 3. Ear Mites 8. Gulf Coast Tick 4. Chiggers 9. Deer Tick 5. Red Mange, Demodicosis, Follicular Mange 10. Continental Rabbit Tick |
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Highly contagious skin disease with severe itching and hair loss
- H: Dog, fox, pig, sheep, goat, cattle, humans |
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highly contagious skin disease with itching, hair loss, and crusting of the head and legs
H: Cats, rabbits, humans, occasionally dogs |
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dark exudates in ear canals, shaking and scratching at ears, secondary ear infections
H: Dogs, cats, and other carnivores |
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Red Mange, Demodicosis, Follicular Mange |
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Hair loss, secondary skin infections, passed from bitch to puppies but is not contagious in adult dogs
H: Dogs |
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Larvae are parasitic, result in severe itching that persists for days after the larvae fall off or is removed
H: Many animals |
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American Dog Tick and Wood Tick |
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and tick paralysis
H: Mice, rodents, dog, humans |
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Tularemia and Rocky Mountain spotted fever
H: Many animals, humans |
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feeds in ears, can cause tick paralyis
H: cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, humans |
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larvae transmit Lyme disease
H: deer, mice, voles, humans, dogs |
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transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and tularemia
H: rabbits, birds, dogs, cats, humans |
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1. Thread Worm (2 types) 2. Hook Worm (4 types) 3. Lungworms 4. Roundworm 5. Heartworm 6. Whipworm |
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Diarrhea in puppies, dermatitis from larvae penetration of skin
H: Dogs |
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Hook Worm (4 types) (Ancylostoma Caninum) |
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Anemia, black tarry feces
H: Dogs |
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Coughing nodules in lungs
H: Dogs and Cats |
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Roundworm (Toxascaris Leonina) |
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Vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal distension, poor growth, larvae may produce disease in humans
H: Dogs and Cats |
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Coughing, right heart failure, microfilaria are found in the blood and transmitted by mosquitos
H: Dogs and Cats |
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Whipworm (Trichuris Vulpis) |
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found in cecum and colon, produce diarrhea with mucus and blood
H: Dogs (rarely cats) |
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Flukes - Allaria spp - Lung Fluke
Tapeworms - Taenia Solium |
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Intermediate Hosts: snake, bird, small mammall, leopard frog and tadpole
Definitive Hosts: Dogs and cats
Disease: Intestinal Flukes |
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Intermediate Host: Aquatic snails, crabs, crayfish
Definitive Host: Cats, dogs, other carnivores, pigs, humans
Disease: Coughing and sometimes blood in the sputum |
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Intermediate Host: pigs, dogs, humans, others
Definitive Host: Humans
Disease: usually asymptomatic and harmless. May cause blindness and brain damage if infected by the larval stage |
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1. Trypanosoma Cruzi 2. Leishmania spp 3. Giardia intestinalis 4. Isospora spp 5. Toxoplasma Gondii |
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Intermediate Host: kissing bug
Definitive Host: dogs, humans
Disease: No disease in dogs, causes Chagas disease in humans |
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IH: sand flies
DH: dogs, humans, rarely cats
Disease: Leishmanias, scaly skin, cutaneous nodule, hair loss, fever, anemia, enlargement of liver, spleen and lymph nodes, weight loss, death |
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DH: Many vertebrates
Disease: giardiasis, diarrhea, soft stools |
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DH: dogs and cats
Disease: coccidiosis, diarrhea especially in puppies and kittens |
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IH: Many animals
DH: Cats
Disease: blindness, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, seizures, muscle weakness, incoordination, pneumonia, paralysis
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Causes diarrhea, hemorrhagic enteritis, and poor growth
Occurs during very stressful events, such as weaning |
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