| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Strongyles | What is the primary nematode of all ruminants? |
| 30 | About how many species of strongyles infect cattle, sheep and goats? |
| Haemonchus | What ruminant worm is known as the barber pole worm? |
| Blood | What does the haemonchus worm feed on? |
| Exsanguination | The haemonchus worm can cause death due to what? |
| Ostertagia | What is the abomasal nematode of ruminants? |
| Nodules | What does Ostertagia produce on the mucosa of the rumen? |
| Nematodirus | Which ruminant internal parasite is found in the small intestine and has large eggs? |
| Premunition | What is the term for the state of resistance seen in adult cattle? |
| Air passages | Where do adult lungworms live in the animal? |
| Dictyocaulus | What is the bovine lungworm? |
| Protostrongulus; Mullerius | What two lungworms can affect sheep and goats? |
| Wildlife | Most trematodes are passed to ruminants by what? |
| Fasciola hepatica | What is the main fluke seen in ruminants? |
| Monezia | What cestode affects ruminants? |
| Eimeria | What coccidia affects ruminants? |
| Young | What age ruminants are Eimeria coccidia most commonly found in? |
| Cryptosporidium | What coccidia is found primarily in cattle? |
| Severe diarrhea | What does cryptosporidium cause, particuraly in young calves? |
| 1/2 size of eimeria oocysts, hard to control, may be zoonotic | What are the 3 "downfalls" of cryptosporidium? |
| Meningeal worm | What kind of worm is P. tenuis? |
| White tailed deer | What is the primary host of P. tenuis? |
| Sheep and goats | What are teh incidental hosts of P. tenuis? |
| CNS signs | What are the clinical signs of P. tenuis? |
| Baylisascaris procyonis | What is the raccoon roundworm that affects humans and small animals? |
| neural larval migrans | What does balisascaris procyonis cause in small animals and humans? |
| Ascaris suum | What is the swine ascarid (large intestinal round worm)? |
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