Microbiology: Specificities

Microbiology Multiple Choice Test: Study Notes

• Staphylococcus pseudointermedius commonly causes pyoderma in dogs.
• Streptococcus equi equi is responsible for strangles, a highly contagious disease in horses.
• Commensal organisms are bacteria that normally live in the body without causing harm.
  • Streptococcus equi equi is NOT considered a normal commensal organism.
• Staphylococcus aureus can cause contagious mastitis in cattle.
• Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium known to cause abortion in cattle.
• Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that thrives in cold temperatures, making it psychrophilic.
• Diamond skin disease is associated with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.
• Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis causes caseous lymphadenitis.
• Bacillus anthracis can cause a rapidly fatal disease, leading to respiratory distress and shock.
• Bleeding from orifices is a symptom of anthrax.
• Tetanospasmin, a potent neurotoxin, is produced by Clostridium tetani.
• Flaccid paralysis is caused by the neurotoxin produced by Clostridium botulinum.
• Neonatal colisepticemia in calves results from an Escherichia coli infection.
• Necrotoxigenic Escherichia coli causes edema disease in pigs.
• Salmonella Enteritidis serotypes can infect the ovaries of chickens.
• Abortion in cattle is commonly caused by Brucella spp.
• Bordetella bronchiseptica causes kennel cough in dogs.
• Bordetella bronchiseptica facilitates atrophic rhinitis in pigs.
• Leptospira spp. causes leptospirosis.
• Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme disease.
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae lacks a cell wall.
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes walking pneumonia.
• Mycolic acid is found in Mycobacterium's cell wall.
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes Tuberculosis.
• African Swine Fever is caused by a virus in the Asfarviridae family.
• African Swine Fever Virus is transmitted by ticks.
• Orf virus causes contagious ecthyma.
• Herpesviridae viruses can cause latent infections.
• Bovine Herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) causes red nose in cattle
• Canine parvovirus primarily infects intestinal crypt cells.
• Feline leukemia virus is an ssRNA virus.
• Bovine leukemia virus is an ssRNA virus.
• BVDV stands for Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus.
• FIP is caused by a mutation of feline enteric coronavirus (FECV).
• Fluid accumulation in the abdomen is a symptom of the wet form of FIP, feline infectious peritonitis.
• Leucochloridium paradoxum is a trematode.
• Snails serve as the intermediate host of Leucochloridium paradoxum.
• Demodex spp. are arachnids.
• Gyrodactylus spp. are monogeneans.
• Monogeneans are primarily ectoparasites of fish.
• Udonella spp. are parasites that have lost their attachment hooks during evolution.
• Oncicola venezuelensis belongs to the phylum Acanthocephala.
• The encysted resting stage of Acanthocephala is called cystacanth.
• Nematodes feature a complete alimentary canal.
• Hookworms belong to the phylum Nematoda.
• Taenia solium is a tapeworm.
• Pigs are the intermediate host for Taenia solium.
• Myxobolus cerebralis infects fish.
• Histomonas meleagridis is a flagellate.
• Blackhead in turkeys is caused by Histomonas meleagridis.
• Balantidium coli is a ciliate.
• The infectious stage of Balantidium coli is the cyst stage.
• Eimeria spp. belong to the phylum Apicomplexa.
• The asexual stage of Eimeria spp. causes damage to the host.
• Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is caused by Sarcocystis neurona.
• Toxoplasma gondii can alter the behavior of its intermediate host.
• Ticks transmit canine babesiosis.
• Flukes belong to the class Trematoda.
• Ectoparasitism is characteristic of Monogenea.
• Myxozoa are parasitic cnidarians.