Protozoans 11-13

Multiple Choice

This rickettsial is an inclusion body on the inside of a neutrophil or monocyte (WBCs).

• Leucocytozoon spp.

• Ehrlichia spp.

• Anaplasma spp.

• Mycoplasma spp.

Multiple Choice

Two forms of coccidiosis illness that can cause pathogeneses in cattle are known as:

• Winter and summer coccidiosis

• Eimeria spp. and Isospora. spp.

• Hemotrophic and winter coccidiosis

• Nervous and winter coccidiosis

Multiple Choice

In a blood smear, you can identify Babesia spp. by these characteristics:

• Appleseed-like inclusions in RBC

• Ring form trophozoites in WBCs

• Piroplasms in RBCs

• Elongate gamonts in RBCs

Multiple Choice

This parasite hijacks a WBC in a cat and turns it into a schizont where it reproduces asexually until merozoites burst out to infect the RBCs. Ticks transmit this parasite to cats and it is highly pathogenic, causing death in days for most hosts.

• Leucocytozoon spp.

• Trypanosoma cruzi

• Cytauxzoon felis

• Plasmodium spp.