ACVPM EXAM QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
1. The phenomenal disease condition affecting man and animal known in the US as tick
paralysis is usually associated with just one species of tick which is:
a. Ixodes cookie
b. Rhipicephalus sanguineus
c. Argas persicus
d. Dermacentor andersoni
e. Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris - Answers - d. Dermacentor andersoni
2. The first disease to be recognized as transmitted by an arthropod was:
a. anaplasmosis
b. trypanosomiasis
c. Texas fever
d. Yellow fever
e. Malaria - Answers - c. Texas fever
3. Causative agent of equine piroplasmosis is:
a. Trypanosoma equiperdum
b. Theileria parva
c. Babesia caballi (equi)
d. Trypanosoma evansi
e. Theirleria lawrenci - Answers - c. Babesia caballi
4. Wuncheria bancrofti is endemic in most of the warm regions of the world and is the
causative agent of what disease?
a. black water fever
b. filariasis
c. fasciolopsiasis
d. cytomegalic inclusion
e. guinea worm infection - Answers - b. filariasis
5. Psorophora bos has been reported only from:
a. Canada
b. United States
c. Mexico
d. Australia
e. Israel - Answers - b. United States
,6. Fowl plaque is caused by:
a. a type B influenza virus picornavirus
b. a type A influenza orthomyxovirus
c. an arborvirus
d. Yersinia multocida
e. Yersinia pestis - Answers - b. a type A influenza orthomyxovirus
7. In strongyloidiasis, the parasite Strongyloides stercoralis may undergo the
heterogonic cycle when environmental conditions are favorable. The term heterogonic
refers to:
a. direct development to 3rd states infective larvae
b. development of free living males and females which subsequently produce infective
larvae
c. larval development to nymphal stage on skin of host
d. development of miracidium into sprocyst in snail
e. activation of embryo by action of digestive enzymes - Answers - b. development of
free living males and females which subsequently produce infective larvae
8. The base of the insecticide commonly used for destruction of mites which cause
scabies on domestic animals:
a. pyrethrum
b. rotenone
c. benzene hexachloride
d. carbon tetrachloride
e. carbon disulfide - Answers - b. rotenone
9. A general measure which is customarily recommended as being the most effective
method for the prevention of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the US is:
a. eradication of ticks
b. burning over of tick infested areas
c. personal care in avoiding tick infested areas
d. dipping of domestic stock
e. poisoning of rodents - Answers - c. personal care in avoiding tick infested areas
10. "Creeping eruption" or "larval migrans" results most frequently form the presence in
the epidermis of man of larvae of the:
a. tropical warble fly (Dermatobia hominis)
b. strongyloid threadworm (Strongyloides stercoralis)
c. ox warble fly (Hypoderma lineate)
d. dog hookworm (Ancylostoma caninum)
, e. dog and cat hook worm (Ancylostoma brazilinse) - Answers - e. dog and cat hook
worm (Ancylostoma brazilinse)
11. Which one of the following parasites is correctly paired with the pathological
manifestation it causes?
a. Fasciola hepatica - enchanced production of toxins of Clostridium novvi, causing
Black Disease
b. Ascaris lumbricoides - extraction of blood from the host
c. Haemonchus contortus - choledochitis
d. Multiceps multiceps - nodular formation in cecum and colon
e. Oesophagostomum columbianum - aneurysms in anterior mesenteric artery -
Answers - d. Multiceps multiceps - nodular formation in cecum and colon
12. A relatively mild disease of man, which resembles chicken pox, but which is
acquired from contact with mice and rodent mite vectors is:
a. Chagas' disease
b. Rickettsial pox
c. Rubella
d. Toxoplasmosis
e. Q-fever - Answers - b. Rickettsial pox
13. Myxomytosis in rabbits is:
a. transmissible by ectoparasites
b. a result of thyroid malfunction
c. caused by virus antigenically related to small pox
d. uniformly fatal
e. found mainly in Uruguay - Answers - c. caused by virus antigenically related to small
pox
14. In which one of the following epidemiological combinations have rickettsial agents of
animals and man been found?
a. rat - flea -murine typhus
b. rat -flea - Q-fever
c. rat - louse - scrub typhus
d. cow- flea - Rocky Spotted Mountain Fever
e. mouse - tick - rickettsial pox - Answers - a. rat - flea -murine typhus
15. Dourine is caused by a species of trypanosome called:
a. Trypansoma equinum
b. Trypansoma eqiperdum
c. Trypansoma vivax
1. The phenomenal disease condition affecting man and animal known in the US as tick
paralysis is usually associated with just one species of tick which is:
a. Ixodes cookie
b. Rhipicephalus sanguineus
c. Argas persicus
d. Dermacentor andersoni
e. Haemaphysalis leporis-palustris - Answers - d. Dermacentor andersoni
2. The first disease to be recognized as transmitted by an arthropod was:
a. anaplasmosis
b. trypanosomiasis
c. Texas fever
d. Yellow fever
e. Malaria - Answers - c. Texas fever
3. Causative agent of equine piroplasmosis is:
a. Trypanosoma equiperdum
b. Theileria parva
c. Babesia caballi (equi)
d. Trypanosoma evansi
e. Theirleria lawrenci - Answers - c. Babesia caballi
4. Wuncheria bancrofti is endemic in most of the warm regions of the world and is the
causative agent of what disease?
a. black water fever
b. filariasis
c. fasciolopsiasis
d. cytomegalic inclusion
e. guinea worm infection - Answers - b. filariasis
5. Psorophora bos has been reported only from:
a. Canada
b. United States
c. Mexico
d. Australia
e. Israel - Answers - b. United States
,6. Fowl plaque is caused by:
a. a type B influenza virus picornavirus
b. a type A influenza orthomyxovirus
c. an arborvirus
d. Yersinia multocida
e. Yersinia pestis - Answers - b. a type A influenza orthomyxovirus
7. In strongyloidiasis, the parasite Strongyloides stercoralis may undergo the
heterogonic cycle when environmental conditions are favorable. The term heterogonic
refers to:
a. direct development to 3rd states infective larvae
b. development of free living males and females which subsequently produce infective
larvae
c. larval development to nymphal stage on skin of host
d. development of miracidium into sprocyst in snail
e. activation of embryo by action of digestive enzymes - Answers - b. development of
free living males and females which subsequently produce infective larvae
8. The base of the insecticide commonly used for destruction of mites which cause
scabies on domestic animals:
a. pyrethrum
b. rotenone
c. benzene hexachloride
d. carbon tetrachloride
e. carbon disulfide - Answers - b. rotenone
9. A general measure which is customarily recommended as being the most effective
method for the prevention of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the US is:
a. eradication of ticks
b. burning over of tick infested areas
c. personal care in avoiding tick infested areas
d. dipping of domestic stock
e. poisoning of rodents - Answers - c. personal care in avoiding tick infested areas
10. "Creeping eruption" or "larval migrans" results most frequently form the presence in
the epidermis of man of larvae of the:
a. tropical warble fly (Dermatobia hominis)
b. strongyloid threadworm (Strongyloides stercoralis)
c. ox warble fly (Hypoderma lineate)
d. dog hookworm (Ancylostoma caninum)
, e. dog and cat hook worm (Ancylostoma brazilinse) - Answers - e. dog and cat hook
worm (Ancylostoma brazilinse)
11. Which one of the following parasites is correctly paired with the pathological
manifestation it causes?
a. Fasciola hepatica - enchanced production of toxins of Clostridium novvi, causing
Black Disease
b. Ascaris lumbricoides - extraction of blood from the host
c. Haemonchus contortus - choledochitis
d. Multiceps multiceps - nodular formation in cecum and colon
e. Oesophagostomum columbianum - aneurysms in anterior mesenteric artery -
Answers - d. Multiceps multiceps - nodular formation in cecum and colon
12. A relatively mild disease of man, which resembles chicken pox, but which is
acquired from contact with mice and rodent mite vectors is:
a. Chagas' disease
b. Rickettsial pox
c. Rubella
d. Toxoplasmosis
e. Q-fever - Answers - b. Rickettsial pox
13. Myxomytosis in rabbits is:
a. transmissible by ectoparasites
b. a result of thyroid malfunction
c. caused by virus antigenically related to small pox
d. uniformly fatal
e. found mainly in Uruguay - Answers - c. caused by virus antigenically related to small
pox
14. In which one of the following epidemiological combinations have rickettsial agents of
animals and man been found?
a. rat - flea -murine typhus
b. rat -flea - Q-fever
c. rat - louse - scrub typhus
d. cow- flea - Rocky Spotted Mountain Fever
e. mouse - tick - rickettsial pox - Answers - a. rat - flea -murine typhus
15. Dourine is caused by a species of trypanosome called:
a. Trypansoma equinum
b. Trypansoma eqiperdum
c. Trypansoma vivax
