| Which of the following species would you require year-round control for in Lousiana but not Ontario? |
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| How long does heartworm take to reach infective stage inside a mosquito? What is that stage? |
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| What form of heartworm is killed by preventative products? |
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| True or false: the majority of heartworm infections in Canada occur in southern ontario? |
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| What is the worst area for heartworm in the United states? Second worst? |
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| True or false: one parasite can cause disease in cats infected with heartworm? |
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| True or false: all the top four heartworm preventatives are in the same class of drugs? |
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| What is the old school treatment for heartworm which is extremely dangerous for positive patients, tastes good, and is given daily? |
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| Which of the following heartworm drugs is NOT administered orally? |
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| What is the only potential drug choice for the treatment of heartworm with no form licensed in cats? |
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| Heartgard products use this drug as their active ingredient? |
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| Interceptor, sentinel and trifexis are all ______. |
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| Selamectin is better known by this product name? |
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| moxidectin is better known as ProHeart6 or _____ ___ |
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| Which of the following drugs is safe in HW+ animals? |
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| Which of the heartworm drugs is generally the broadest spectrum and most expensive? |
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| Can you use ivermectin for heartworm prevention in collies? |
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| Ivermectin can control heartworm in dogs and cats. What else will it control in cats? |
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| What is the plus in heartgard plus? What does the plus control? |
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| What is the only heartworm preventative that is licensed for pups as young as 2 weeks? (All others 6 weeks plus) |
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| Interceptor is broader spectrum than heartgard. What additional species does it control in dogs? In cats? |
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| What is the drawback tot he added lufenuron which is added to milbemycin to make sentinel? What product could you add instead? |
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| What is the only tick revolution (selamectin) is fully licensed to control in Canada? Is this ironic? Is it licensed for the same in the states? |
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| Which of the following does revolution NOT have a full label claim to control in dogs? |
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| Of Dirofilaria, toxocara, toxascaris, ancylostoma, uncinaria, trichuris, fleas, otodectes, sarcoptes and demodex, what are the only two advantage multi does not fully cover in dogs |
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| Ontario transmission of heartworm starts around ____ _ and ends around _____ _ |
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| If a puppy has it's first checkup at 7 weeks old, when should it start heartworm prevention? |
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| When should you test for heartworm in Canada? |
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| ____ months old is the minimum age at which a dog should be tested for heartworm antigen. |
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| What is the best treatment (daily for 28 days) followed by 3 dose regimen of _____ for heartworm positive naimals w/o clinical signs? |
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| Which groups of people are at highest risk for zoonotic infection from their pets with parasites? |
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| Transplacenal transmission is the most common transfer of toxocara ____, whereas transmammary is the most common transfer of toxocara ____ |
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| True or false: without smptoms, treatment is NOT justified for giardiosis? |
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| If giardiosis is clinical, consider treatment with _____ to be superior to _____, which it is commonly resistant to. |
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| In Southern Ontario puppies and kittens 0-3 months old mainly require protection from _____, and, to a lesser extent, _____ |
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| What additional parasites might need preventive programs in Lousiana? |
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| What is the overlap age for the first treatment with an anthelminthic for dogs and cats? why? |
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| What extremely narrow spectrum drug neutralizes pyrantel, is neutralized by pyrantel, and works only for roundworms? |
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| I cover round and hookworms, do not have a minimum age, and taste like bananas or caramel. What am I? |
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| What are the three drugs Dr. Peregrine mentioned that don't have minimum ages? |
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| What drug is cats only, while the plus version may be used in dogs? |
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| What drug is in drontal plus for whip worms? |
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| True or false: fenbendazole does not cover any tapeworms? |
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| This highly unpleasant drug will make cats foam at the mouth and dogs vomit. The injectible is highly irritating and even worse. It kills tapes. |
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| This drug is more pleasant than praziquantel, but will not work against echinococcus granulosus? |
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| True or false: praziquantel may be coated in sugar to reduce its unpleasant side effects? |
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| What are the only two drugs that may kill youthful nematodes as well as adult stages? |
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| In Canada, your first deworming treatment should be _____ or _____, in the US you might use ______ (interceptor) |
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| ____________ methods have the highest sensitivity when monitoring dogs/cats for intestinal infections? |
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| I am more commonly known ast he brown dog tick, and transmit RMSF, Francisella tularensis, and Cytauxzoon felis. |
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| I am the Western cousin of dermacentor variabilis? |
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| What is more commonly known as the gulf coast tick? The lone star tick? |
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| Which of the following is NOT transmitted by A americanum? |
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| What disease is unusually transmitted by ingestion of A. maculatum rather than by its bite? |
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| What tick is the primary vector for Borrelia burgdorferi? What town in Connecticut is the epicenter for infection? |
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| What is probably the worst endemic site in Ontario for I. Scapularis |
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| How long must a tick be attached to transmit Lyme disease? |
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| What is the classic clinical presentation of lyme disease, 6 months after exposure? |
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| True or false: rhipicephalus sanguineus is a tropical tick, never found in Canada? |
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| Which two products are highly lethal when used on cats mistakenly? |
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| The following products all work on ticks and fleas except for... |
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| Which of the following is NOT diagnosed by the 4Dx test? |
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| True or false: a healthy dog infected with lyme disease requires treatment? |
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