| Question | Answer |
| Zoonotic Disease = | infectious agents indigenous to vertebrate animals that are naturally transmissible btw humans and animals |
| Plague: | yersinia pestis - black death epidemics, rat flea/rodent cycle |
| Typhus, 3 organisms: | epidemic - ricketssia prowazakii
scrub - orient tstsugamusi
murine - rickettsia typhi |
| 3 zoonotic hemorrhagic diseases: | S American hemorrhagic fevers, korean hemorrhagic fever, hantavirus |
| Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: | Bunyavirus, acute onset of fever, pulmonary edema, renal failure |
| Rodents amplify which 4 diseases? | Rocky mountain spotted fever, lyme disease, hepatitis E (calici), arenaviruses |
| Food/water borne diseases of rodents: (4) | salmonella, yersiniosis, cryptosporidiosis, giardia |
| True or False, domestic species are more likely to carry zoonotic diseases than wild rodents? | FALSE |
| True or False, Balisascaris is a huge domestic rodent zoonotic concern | FALSE, not zoonotic --- transmitted in raccoon feces |
| How do you avoid lepto? | avoid contaminated urine (wild rodent and their nests) |
| What species is associated with tularemia? | rabbits |
| How do we avoid salmonella? | Good hygiene |
| Other species of yersiniosis can cause _____ and _____ | enteritis and arthritis |
| All mammals can get RABIES, T or F | TRUE, carnivores greater likelihood |
| What rare zoonotic affects pregnant women and causes malaise, aseptic meningitis, and congenital malformations | Lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) |
| E. caniculi affects which species: | rabbits, guinea, pigs, humans
route of transmission = urine |
| What is the dwarf tapeworm of rats and mice that can infect humans? | hymenolepis nana |
