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Your patient returns from a hike in the woods and discovers organisms like those (ticks) below on her neck and shoulders. What is the name of a disease that can be transmitted by the organism shown above?  [disease1] a. Lyme diseaseb. Norwalk diseasec. Rocky Mountain Spotted Feverd. Rift Valley fever What is the name of a disease transmitted by the organism (flea) in the image, below? Hint: the disease is endemic to parts of California.  [disease2] a. Chagas disesaseb. onchocerciasisc. plagued. typhus What is the name of the disease transmitted by the organism (kissing bug) shown, below?  Hint:  the disease is endemic to parts of Central and South America.  [disease3] a. Chagas diseaseb. onchocerciasisc. plagued. typhus You manage to “score” a furnished apartment (Congrats!).  Remembering BIOL 440 lab, you decide to check the upholstered furniture using a magnifying glass.  Sure enough, you find signs of infestation (see image above). What is the proper name for the insects shown in the above image? [furniture] a. Aedes b. Cimex   c.  Glossina d.  Xenopsylla  

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The veterinarian has prescribed Roger to receive a dose of Cerenia at 1 mg/kg, IV. How many mL and mg of Cerenia will you administer to Roger?

The veterinarian wants to send home something to increase Roger’s recovery time, all of the following are options except;

Roger is going to be hospitalized for at least for 4 days, how long can his IVC remain in place? IVC is still patent.

Since Roger has continued to decline and the clients do not have financial concerns, the vet decides to a relatively new treatment for pancreatitis called Panoquell-CA1 (Fuzapladib). The dosage is 0.4mg/kg, this dose needs to be given once a day as an IV bolus, for 3 days. How much total mL and mg of Panoquell-CA1 does Roger need?

Which venipuncture locations are most to least preferable for canine blood sample collection? No contraindications exist in this patient.

What two routes can be used to administer Cerenia (maropitant citrate) Injectable?

Remember this is just the First Part of the exam. Midterm II – Part 2 (Coding Qs) is in a separate quiz. Do you agree to take BOTH?

Write a function called is_identity that takes a list of lists representing a matrix of integers as its only argument and returns True if it is an identity matrix, False otherwise. Identity matrices have all ones on the diagonal, zeroes everywhere else. Examples: Be sure to use meaningful indentations, as this will be graded. Copy and paste are disabled, but you can test your code in https://www.w3schools.com/python/trypython.asp?filename=demo_compiler