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18 Cards in this Set
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Side 2: What are the distinguishing features of soft ticks
Side 3: What are the distinguishing features of hard ticks |
Leathery body without plates or scutum, ventral gnathostome, feed on multiple hosts
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Shield or scutum covers part of female, entire male, anterior gnathostomes, multiple hosts (1, 2, or 3)
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Side 2: What species is infected by Argas
Side 3: What disease is transferred |
Birds primarily
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Fowl borreliosis (B. anserina)
Tick paralysis (chickens) Anemia, secondary infection |
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Side 2: What species is infected by Otobius megnini
Side 3: What is the common name |
Cattle ear canal (may bite other hosts, including man)
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Spinose ear tick
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Side 2: What stages do Otobius megnini go through (which of these stages feed)
SIde 3: What stages do Argas go through |
Larvae, 2 nymphal stages, adult
Larvae and nymphs |
Egg, adult (<30 days)
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Side 2: What are the reproductive properties of Argas
Side 3: Otobius megnini |
Lay clutches of 25-100 eggs
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Adults mate/drop off - single clutch of eggs
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Side 2: What is the common name of Amblyomma americanum
Side 3: What disease does it transfer |
Lone star tick
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Cytauzoon
Secondary fly strike, tick paralysis (toxins), tick worry, damage to hides |
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Side 2: What is the common name of Rhipacephalus sanguines
Side 3: What disease does it transfer |
Brown dog tick
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Ehrlichia (transstadial), Babesia canis (transstadial, transovarial)
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Side 2: What is the common name of Dermacentor variabilis
Side 3: What disease does it transfer |
American dog tick
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (transovarial)
Babesia gibsoni rash = damaged vascular endothelium |
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Side 2: What is the common name of Ixodes scapularis
Side 3: What disease does it transfer |
Black-legged tick, deer tick
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Lyme disease
Babesia microti |
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Side 2: What is the common name of Rhipcephalus evertsi
Side 3: What disease does it transfer |
Red-legged tick
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Bovine/equine babesia, Theileria Heartwater (Cowdria ruminantium)
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Side 2: What diseases are spread by Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus
Side 3: How are these diseases transmitted |
Bovine babesiosis, anaplasmosis
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Transovarially
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Side 2: What is the life cycle of 3 host hard ticks
Side 3: What are larvae referred to as |
Larvae on host 1 (small mammal) - feed, drop, molt
Nymph on host 2 (small mammal) - feed, drop molt Adult on host 3 - mate, feed, drop off Eggs laid on ground to hatch into larvae |
Seed ticks
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What is the most common tick on dogs in NC
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Amblyomma americanum (lone star tick)
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What are the replicative properties of Rhipacephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)
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Egg-egg in 1 month
Can breed indoors (indoor kennels) |
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What are the replicative properties of Dermacentor variabilis (american dog tick)
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7-10 d incubation
Tick must be on you for 24 hours |
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What hard ticks are considered 3-host ticks
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Amblyomma americanum (lone star tick)
Rhipacephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick) Dermacentor variabilis (american dog tick) Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick, deer tick) |
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Side 2: What hard ticks are considered 2-host ticks
Side 3: What is the lifecycle |
Rhipicephalus evertsi
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Larvae and nymph feed on same host, adult feeds on second host
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Side 2: What hard ticks are considered 1-host ticks
Side 3: What is the lifecycle |
Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) annulatus
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All stages feed on 1 host, adult female drops off and lays eggs
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