Across
- 1. deer tick or black legged tick. Vector for Lyme disease,babesia microti, Tularemia and ehrlichiosis
- 5. mite that reside in the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of humans and most domesticated animals
- 9. rabbit ear mite,clinical sign thick brown crust in the ear, scratching and shaking of the ear and head
- 12. mites that reside in the keratin layer of the skin and in the hair coat of various definitive hosts
- 13. mite that reside in the nasal turbinates and associated paranasal sinuses
- 14. are small to medium-sized acarines with dorsoventrally flattened, leathery bodies
- 15. soft ticks lack a scutum, the hard, chitinous plate that covers the body of the tick.
- 16. scabies for cat, transmission through contact with infested cat
- 17. mites that live in the surface of the skin or within the external ear canal
- 18. lone star tick vector for rocky mountain spotted disease and Tularemia
- 19. hard tickshave a hard, chitinous scutum that covers all the male tick's dorsum and about a third or less of the female tick's dorsum.
- 20. Red mange,host dogs, Tx is Ivermectin, Bravecto and Nexgar. Typically occurs when dam nurses puppies.
Down
- 2. mites that burrow or tunnel in the epidermis
- 3. Tx for cheyletiella-parasitovorax
- 4. Sarcoptes scabiei, host is dogs, transmission is through contact with infested dog
- 6. earmite for cats, dogs and ferrets. Must treat all pets in the household, very common infestation and highly transmisable
- 7. walking dandruff, host dogs, cats and rabbits. Causes cheyletiellosis, looks like moving dandruff
- 8. nasal mite, host dogs,clinical signs are Sinusitis and Rhinitis. Dx Rhinoscopy, nasal flushes and observation of mites exiting nares
- 10. Paralysis seen in animals and humans caused by the toxic saliva in some ticks.
- 11. Revolution, treats ear mites and burrowing mites