USMLE buzzwords infectious disease

Question

Zoonoses are infections that travel from animals to humans. Very often on the USMLE there are buzzwords that clue you in to the correct answer. What are some of these buzzwords and what diseases are they associated with?

Answer 1

Kittens – Bartonella

Animal hides – anthrax

Tropical birds – psittacosis

Reptiles – salmonella

Animal hides – anthrax

Rabbit – tularemia

Parturient mammals, i.e. mammals about to give birth – Q fever

Erythrocytic inclusions in nontraveler – Babesia

Prairie dogs – plague and monkey box