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NAVMED P-5010 Ch08
Manual of Naval Preventive Medicine Ch 8: Entomology
Question | Answer |
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WHAT IS CHAPTER 8 OF THE MANUAL OF NAVAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE? | MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY AND PEST CONTROL TECHNOLOGY |
WHAT DOES (DVECC) STAND FOR? | Disease Vector Ecology and Control Centers |
Refers to organisms, primarily arthropods and rodents | DEFINITION OF A VECTOR |
Provides specialized support in the area of stored products pest management | Entomologist |
Who must attend pest control training? | THE SEL MDR & PMT Corpsman |
How often is shipboard pest control training conducted? | Once a year. |
Is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest | Definition of Pesticides |
Aracnicides, avicides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides, nematocides, rodenticides | Are Shipboard Pesticides |
A substance used to control mites, scorpions, spiders, ticks and related organisms | Aracnicides |
A substance used to control fungi | Fungicides |
A substance used to control un-desired vegetation | Herbicides |
A substance used to control insects, sometimes used in a broader sense to include the control of arthropods other than insects. | Insecticide |
Used to control the adult stage of an insect | Adulticide |
Used to control the larval stage of an insect. | Larvicide |
Used against the egg stage of an insect. | Ovicide |
Used to control snails and other mollusks | Molluscicide |
Used to control rodents. | Rodenticide |
Are compounds of mineral origin and mainly include arsenic, copper, mercury, sulfur or zinc | Inorganic pesticides |
Are a group of synthetic organic compounds with one or more chlorine atoms. Chlordane, dieldrin, and DDT are examples | Chlorinated hydrocarbons |
Synthetic compounds containing phosphorous | Organophosphates |
Are synthetic compounds of salts or esters of carbamic acid. Carbaryl and propoxur are examples | Carbamates |
Are pesticides of plant origin. Pyrethrums and rotenone are examples. | Botanical |
They are effective for penetrating cracks and crevices. They may be used around electrical equipment or power | Oil Solutions |
Consists of droplets of an emulsifiable pesticide dispersed in a diluent in such a way as to prevent separation of the two components | Emulsions |
Are preparations of pesticide impregnated into particles of highly absorptive clays and earths which are graded by sizes ranging from coarse pebble-like pellets to those with a consistency of fine sand | Granules/Pellets |
This miscellaneous grouping includes the application of pesticides by brush or roller, as a paste, grease, or cream, or as solid formulations which vaporize slowly in air. | Nonparticle pesticides. |
Are materials that enhance the effectiveness of basic toxicant chemicals by altering their physical or chemical characteristics | Additives |
Used only in airtight spaces which prevent dissipation | Gases and Vapors |
Suspension of liquid or solid particles in air | Aerosols |
Are dispersed particles in which the particles are intermediate in size | Mists |
Spray droplets are considered to be from 100 to 400 microns in diameter | Fine Sprays |
Consist of droplets over 400 microns in diameter | Coarse Sprays |
What is Highly Toxic? (How much does it take to administer death) | 0-50 mg/kg |
What is Moderately Toxic? (How much does it take to administer death) | 50-500 mg/kg |
What is a Musca domestics? | A House fly |
What is a (Calliphora, Chrysomya, Lucilia, Phaenicia, Phormia, etc.)? | Blow Fly |
What is a (Sarcophagi and Wohlfahrtia)? | Flesh Fly |
What is Glossina spp.? | Tsetse Fly |
What is Phlebotomus spp.? | Sand Fly |
What is a Simulium spp.? | Black Fly |
What is a Tabanus, Chrysops, etc.? | Horse and Deer Fly |
What is a Hippelates? | Eye gnat |
First in importance among the insects that transmit disease to man | Mosquitoes |
Generally most frequently associated with disease transmission, mosquitoes are | Aedes, Anopheles and Culex |
Are responsible for the transmission of louse-borne typhus, trench fever and louse-borne relapsing fever. | Human Lice |
What is termed pediculosis? | Human Lice |
Are probably the most common and persistently troublesome arthropod pest encountered indoors | Cockroaches |
What is a Blatella germanica? | German Cockroach |
What is a Supella longipalpa? | Brown-banded cockroach |
What is a Periplaneta americana? | American cockroach |
What is a Periplaneta australasiae? | Australian cockroach |
They are known to transmit diseases to man and animals. | Ticks |
Which vectors transmits Q fever and endemic relapsing fever, and Lyme disease? | Ticks |
What is Rhipicephalus sanguineus? | The brown dog tick |
What is Xenopsylla cheopis? | The oriental rat flea |
What vector transmits the Plague? | The oriental rat flea |
What vector causes ulcerating lesions on the feet of man and of animals? | Burrowing flea |
What is Tunga Penetrans? | Burrowing flea |
What flea needs an animal hosts to breed? | Sand Flea |
What vectors may serve as reservoirs for plague, endemic typhus, tularemia and other debilitating diseases? | Rodents such as rats, mice and ground squirrels |
What vector causes the most damage from contamination of supplies? | Rodents |
What is a Rattus norvegicus? | The Norway, brown or gray rat, |
What is Rattus rattus alexandrines? | The Roof rat |
What is Mus musculus? | The house rat |
What are the measurements for rodent proofing all necessary openings for all structures that are built? | 28 gauge 95 mm (3/8 in) mesh galvanized hardware |
How does the Navy prevent rodents from boarding ships? | Rat Guards |
What is the minimum diameter of a rat guard? | 36 in diameter |
Where should the rat guard be mounted? | At least 6 feet from the closet point on shore or ship. |
What certifies a Navy vessel that there is no rats, on-board? | Deratization Certification |
Where are the requirements for Deratization certification found? | NAVMEDCOMINST 6250.7 |
What Clinical manifestations include anaphylactic shock, hemolysis, necrosis, paralysis, cardiopulmonary dysfunction, allergenic asthma? | Common Venomous Arthropods |
Vesicating come from what? | blister beetles |
Neurotoxic come from what? | black widow spiders |
Cytolytic come from what? | brown recluse spider |
Hemolytic come from what? | horse flies |
Are fast moving, dorso-ventrally flat, elongate arthropods having one pair of legs per body segment. | Centipedes |
These arthropods are slow moving, rounded, elongated arthropods with two pairs of legs per body segment | Millipedes |
Are venomous arachnids that rarely sting man, and then, only when provoked? | Scorpions |
Considered dangerous because of the hemolytic and neurotoxic venom properties | Scorpions |
Tachypnea, tachycardia, nausea, Glycosuria, epigastric pain and tenderness, excessive salivation, slurred speech, tissue discoloration and necrosis, are what? | Scorpion bites |
Are venomous arachnids and in most cases are considered to be beneficial because they feed on other arthropods | Spiders |
May cause mild to severe contact dermatitis, nodular conjunctivitis, respiratory pain, headache and convulsions | Caterpillars |