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RVT Month 2025 Webinar #4 - Totally Grossed Out or Fascinated: Parasitology for the RVT

RVT Month 2025 Webinar #4 - Totally Grossed Out or Fascinated: Parasitology for the RVT

Continuing to learn after achieving RVT status is essential for the individual and the advancement of the profession. Ontario RVTs can earn one (1) Continuing Education (CE) credit by reading the CE articles in the RVT Journal, or watching recorded sessions of OAVT presentations, and submitting the successfully completed corresponding quizzes.

If you obtain a score of 8 out of 10 (80%) or higher, you will receive a confirmation email which OAVT members can use as acceptable proof for their online CE record.

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1. Which statement is true regarding fecal sample collection?
2. Specific gravity of float solutions must be __________the target ova.
3. Which parasite is readily recovered by fecal flotation?
4. Where on a blood slide would blood parasites like microfilaria and trypanosomes most likely be found?
5. Which test is used to identify microfilaria in blood?
6. Which procedure will NOT concentrate ova?
7. For increased contrast of a fecal or urine sample, what is the best location of the condenser and iris diaphragm filter lever in microscope set up?
8. Which mite has a round, rotund appearance and is found in deep skin scrapings?
9. Which fecal parasite ova has a round shape, rough outer membrane and is browner in color?
10. Which parasite found in feces has elliptical ova, brown in colour, with two poles at either end, in direct alignment with each other?
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