Dirofilaria immitis
Selamectin for the prevention of canine Dirofilaria immitis infection: field efficacy in client owned dogs in a high risk area
... Methods: The preventive efficacy of selamectin was evaluated by the topical application of selamectin to 24 client- owned dogs at the recommended rate (minimum of 6 mg/kg) by a veterinarian monthly for 36 months. Blood ...
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Granulomatous metritis caused by suspected Dirofilaria immitis in a dog: a case report
... study, Dirofilaria immitis microfilariae are characterised by the absence of a sheath, sharp ce- phalic ends, a straight tail with a sharp end, a width of 5–7 mm, and length of 290–330 ...of ...
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Dirofilaria immitis JYD 34 isolate: whole genome analysis
... Dirofilaria immitis is the causative agent of heartworm dis- ease in dogs and cats ...D. immitis JYD- 34 was originally isolated from the field and taken into the laboratory by TRS Labs ...
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Forecasting United States heartworm Dirofilaria immitis prevalence in dogs
... D. immitis prevalence in domestic ...D. immitis to ML has been recently documented and is a growing concern in the Gulf States, but the current ex- tent of resistant phenotypes remains unknown [7, ...15]. ...
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Prime detection of Dirofilaria immitis: understanding the influence of blocked antigen on heartworm test performance
... of Dirofilaria immitis has been a mainstay of identifying heartworm infection in clinical practice for the past three ...D. immitis microfilaria-positive but antigen- negative samples to ...
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Mosquito borne heartworm Dirofilaria immitis in dogs from Australia
... Dirofilaria immitis (canine heartworm) is a parasitic nematode responsible for the canine heartworm ...D. immitis microfilariae (L1) as they circulate the blood of infected ...D. immitis ...
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Identification of Dirofilaria immitis miRNA using illumina deep sequencing
... heartworm Dirofilaria immitis is the causative agent of cardiopulmonary dirofilariosis in dogs and cats, which also infects a wide range of wild mammals and ...D. immitis with several developmental ...
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Development of Dirofilaria immitis within the mosquito Aedes (Finlaya) koreicus, a new invasive species for Europe
... heartworm Dirofilaria immitis (Filarioidea, Onchocercidae), a filarial nematode primarily affecting dogs and less frequently cats and humans, is endemic in northern Italy, particularly along the Po River ...
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Dirofilaria immitis and D repens show circadian co periodicity in naturally co infected dogs
... Background: Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens are mosquito-borne zoonotic filarioids typically infecting dogs, causing a potentially fatal cardiopulmonary disease and dermatological ...
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Genetic profiles of ten Dirofilaria immitis isolates susceptible or resistant to macrocyclic lactone heartworm preventives
... Additional file 3: Mathematical models that used the biomarker tools from MetaboAnalyst 3.0 with the Random Forest algorithm to predict macrocyclic lactone susceptibility or resistance in Dirofilaria ...
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First molecular identification of mosquito vectors of Dirofilaria immitis in continental Portugal
... genus Dirofilaria (Spirurida: Onchocercidae) [1], namely Dirofilaria immitis (Leidy, 1856), canine or dog heartworm, and Dirofilaria repens Railliet& Henry, ...canine dirofilaria- ...
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Does evaluation of in vitro microfilarial motility reflect the resistance status of Dirofilaria immitis isolates to macrocyclic lactones?
... Dirofilaria immitis, the canine heartworm, is one of the most pathogenic parasitic helminths infecting small companion animals ...D. immitis has been unequivocally confirmed by the establishment of ...
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Molecular xenomonitoring of Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens in mosquitoes from north eastern Italy by real time PCR coupled with melting curve analysis
... Among the mosquito species collected, Cx. pipiens was the most represented (n = 37,865, 92.6 %) followed by Och. caspius (n = 2,264, 5.5 %), Ae. vexans (n = 720, 1.8 %) and Cx. modestus (n = 43, 0.1 %). At least one pool ...
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Establishment of macrocyclic lactone resistant Dirofilaria immitis isolates in experimentally infected laboratory dogs
... of Dirofilaria immitis suspected of lack of efficacy (LOE) to macrocyclic lactone (ML) preventive drugs have been increasingly reported in dogs by practicing veterinarians since 2005 in the Lower ...
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Canine heartworm disease (Dirofilaria immitis) in Western Europe: survey of veterinary awareness and perceptions
... (HW, Dirofilaria immitis) infection in Europe was localized in the southern areas and until the middle of the 1980’s the most endemic area was northern Italy [1], where the parasite was first ob- served by ...
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Feline Dirofilariosis Due to Dirofilaria immitis in Meshkin Shahr District, Northwestern Iran
... Accepted 20 Mar 2016 Abstract Background: Dirofilaria immitis is a common nematode of the cardiovascular sys- tem, which infects carnivores all over the world. The infection is prevalent in dogs, but in ...
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Efficacy of oral moxidectin against susceptible and resistant isolates of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs
... (Dirofilaria immitis) disease in dogs and cats in the United States and other ...D. immitis when administered 2 months after inoculation of 50 infective larvae (L3) ...D. immitis isolates ...
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Increasing incidence of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs in USA with focus on the southeast region 2013–2016
... Background: A recent American Heartworm Society (AHS) survey on the incidence of adult heartworm infections in dogs in the United States of America showed a 21.7% increase in the average cases per veterinary clinic from ...
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Risk of canine and human exposure to Dirofilaria immitis infected mosquitoes in endemic areas of Italy
... Dirofilaria immitis (Filarioidea, Onchocercidae) is respon- sible for cardiopulmonary ...D. immitis is linked to a combination of several factors related with both the definitive and the intermediate ...
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Evaluation of Dirofilaria immitis antigen detection comparing heated and unheated serum in dogs with experimental heartworm infections
... (Dirofilaria immitis) antigen in infected dogs are considered highly specific, with very good sen- sitivity and are widely used in the clinical setting ...D. immitis infection and detection of ...
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