Quit your itchin!
Chiggers, jiggers and red bugs name.
Trombicula species
Name 4 tick species.
What are Dermacentor sp., Rhipicephalus sanguineus sp., Amblyomma sp. and Ixodes sp.?
Normal bacteria found on patient.
What is indigenous flora?
Patients can have local infections that spread to multiple organs, called _______________.
What are disseminated or systemic infections?
Samples for staining should be ________.
What is thin?
The only stage of this mite that is parasitic.
What is the larval stage?
Name the four developmental stages of the tick.
What are egg, larva, nymph and adult?
Indigenous flora can cause ___________.
Name a commonly used test in cows.
What is California Mastitis Test (CMT)?
Diff-Quik and other Wright stains cannot tell you if and organism is _______ or __________.
What is Gram negative or Gram positive?
Trombicula sp. burrow into the skin. (T or F)
What is false? The attached to the skin on which they feed before dropping off.
An example of a many-host tick is _____________, the spinose ear tick, a type of soft tick.
What is Otobius megnini?
The best time to collect sample is____________.
Common organisms seen in feces with diarrhea.
What are Salmonella, Campylobacter, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium difficile, and Mycobacterium avium?
Acid Fast staining is used to identify ___________ or __________.
What are Mycobacterium spp and Nocardia spp?
Name the 4 developmental stages of Trombicula species.
What are the egg, six-legged larva, eight-legged nymph and eight legged adult?
Name two common tick borne diseases.
What are RMSF, Q Fever, Tularemia, Ehrliciosis, Cytauxzoonsis?
The preferred collection method of urine for culture.
What is cystocentesis?
Name 2 common stains used in clinic.
What are Gram stain and Acid fast stain?
Acid fast positive sample are ________.
What is pink to red in color?
To identify Trombicula species.
Disease caused by salivary neurotoxin produced by certain female ticks.
What is tick paralysis?
_____________ are samples collected by aseptically introducing a small amount of sterile saline into the bronchus or trachea and then removing via aspiration.
What is bronchoalveolar lavage and transtracheal wash?
Name the steps of Gram stain.
What are heat fixed slide, flood with crystal violet for 1 minute, rinse, flood with Gram iodine for 1 minute, rinse, decolorize, rinse, flood with safranin counterstain for 30 sec rinse?
Gram negative samples are __________.
What is red?