ACVPM TEST QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
Texas fever - Answers - First disease recognized as transmit by an arthropod
Babesia caballi (equi) - Answers - Causative agent of equine piroplasmosis
Wuncheria bancrofti - Answers - causative agent of filariasis; endemic in most warm
regions of the world
Psorophora bos - Answers - A mosquito species that has been reported only in the U.S.
Fowl plague - Answers - Caused by type A influenza orthomyxovirus
In strongyloidiasis, the parasite Strongyloides stercoralis may undergo heterogonic
cycle when environmental conditions are favorable. Heterogonic refers to: - Answers -
development of free living males and female which subsequently produce infective larva
The base of the insecticide commonly used for destruction of mites which cause
scabies on domestic animals - Answers - Rotenone
A general measure which is customarily recommended as the most effective method for
prevention of RMSF in US - Answers - Personal care to avoid tick infested areas
"Creeping eruptions" or "larval migrans" results most frequently from the presence in the
epidermis of the larvae: - Answers - Ancylostoma braziliense (dog and cat hookworm)
Which of the following parasites is correctly paired with the pathological manifestation? -
Answers - a. Fasciola hepatica - enhanced production of toxins of Clostridium novvi,
causing black disease
b. Ascaris lumbricoides - extraction of blood from host
c. Haemonchus contortus - choledochitis
>>>> d. Multiceps multiceps - nodular formation in cecum and colon
Oesophagostomum columbium - aneurysms
in anterior mesenteric artery
A relatively mild disease of man, which resembles chicken pox, but which is acquired
from contact with mice and rodent mite vectors is: - Answers - a. Chagas' disease
b. Rickettsial pox
c. Rubella
, d. Toxoplasmosis
e. Q-fever
Myxomytosis in rabbits is: - Answers - 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
In which one of the following epidemiological combinations have rickettsial agents of
animals and man been found? - Answers - 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
Dourine is caused by a species of trypanosome called: - Answers - a. Trypansoma
equinum
b. Trypansoma eqiperdum
c. Trypansoma vivax
d. Trypansoma congolense
e. Trypansoma evansi
16. Suckling mice are the best choice for isolating viruses of which of the following
groups - Answers - a. paramyxoviruses
b. arenaviruses
c. poxviruses
d. rotaviruses
e. togaviruses
17. Intracellular virus: - Answers - a. can only be neutralized by 19S antibody
b. can be inactivated by phagocytised anti-DNA antibody
c. can have its phenotypic markers altered significantly by IG D
d. can readily be absorbed by non-neutralizing IG E
e. cannot be influenced by specific antibody
A positive serum neutralization test would indicate that the animal had: - Answers - a.
the disease at the time the specimen was taken
b. previously shown symptoms of the disease
c. been vaccinated at least 5 years ago
d. not had the disease at any time in the past
e. been infected with the specific disease entity
Tissue culture techniques are extremely useful in the isolation of viral agents from
field cases because: - Answers - a. they permit identification of the virus by the type of
cytopathogenic effect
Texas fever - Answers - First disease recognized as transmit by an arthropod
Babesia caballi (equi) - Answers - Causative agent of equine piroplasmosis
Wuncheria bancrofti - Answers - causative agent of filariasis; endemic in most warm
regions of the world
Psorophora bos - Answers - A mosquito species that has been reported only in the U.S.
Fowl plague - Answers - Caused by type A influenza orthomyxovirus
In strongyloidiasis, the parasite Strongyloides stercoralis may undergo heterogonic
cycle when environmental conditions are favorable. Heterogonic refers to: - Answers -
development of free living males and female which subsequently produce infective larva
The base of the insecticide commonly used for destruction of mites which cause
scabies on domestic animals - Answers - Rotenone
A general measure which is customarily recommended as the most effective method for
prevention of RMSF in US - Answers - Personal care to avoid tick infested areas
"Creeping eruptions" or "larval migrans" results most frequently from the presence in the
epidermis of the larvae: - Answers - Ancylostoma braziliense (dog and cat hookworm)
Which of the following parasites is correctly paired with the pathological manifestation? -
Answers - a. Fasciola hepatica - enhanced production of toxins of Clostridium novvi,
causing black disease
b. Ascaris lumbricoides - extraction of blood from host
c. Haemonchus contortus - choledochitis
>>>> d. Multiceps multiceps - nodular formation in cecum and colon
Oesophagostomum columbium - aneurysms
in anterior mesenteric artery
A relatively mild disease of man, which resembles chicken pox, but which is acquired
from contact with mice and rodent mite vectors is: - Answers - a. Chagas' disease
b. Rickettsial pox
c. Rubella
, d. Toxoplasmosis
e. Q-fever
Myxomytosis in rabbits is: - Answers - 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
In which one of the following epidemiological combinations have rickettsial agents of
animals and man been found? - Answers - 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
Dourine is caused by a species of trypanosome called: - Answers - a. Trypansoma
equinum
b. Trypansoma eqiperdum
c. Trypansoma vivax
d. Trypansoma congolense
e. Trypansoma evansi
16. Suckling mice are the best choice for isolating viruses of which of the following
groups - Answers - a. paramyxoviruses
b. arenaviruses
c. poxviruses
d. rotaviruses
e. togaviruses
17. Intracellular virus: - Answers - a. can only be neutralized by 19S antibody
b. can be inactivated by phagocytised anti-DNA antibody
c. can have its phenotypic markers altered significantly by IG D
d. can readily be absorbed by non-neutralizing IG E
e. cannot be influenced by specific antibody
A positive serum neutralization test would indicate that the animal had: - Answers - a.
the disease at the time the specimen was taken
b. previously shown symptoms of the disease
c. been vaccinated at least 5 years ago
d. not had the disease at any time in the past
e. been infected with the specific disease entity
Tissue culture techniques are extremely useful in the isolation of viral agents from
field cases because: - Answers - a. they permit identification of the virus by the type of
cytopathogenic effect
