Heartworm disease
Considerations for using minocycline vs doxycycline for treatment of canine heartworm disease
... A follow-up study by the anti-Wolbachia Consortium examined minocycline as a repurposed anti-Wolbachia macrofilaricide [9]. This study tested anti-Wolbachia ac- tivity of antibiotics in the filarial nematode, Brugia ...
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Prevalence of Canine Heartworm Disease in Stray Dogs of Grenada, West Indies
... The impact of D. immitis infections on companion animal health and veteri- nary practice in endemic areas cannot be overemphasized [5]. In endemic areas, where prophylaxis is irregular, the prevalence of D. immitis ...
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Cardiopulmonary and inflammatory biomarkers in heartworm disease
... In heartworm disease, several biomarkers of cardiopulmonary injury and inflammatory activity have been studied during the recent ...heartworm disease. Furthermore, concentrations increment ...
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Echocardiographic assessment of right heart indices in dogs with elevated pulmonary artery pressure associated with chronic respiratory disorders, heartworm disease, and chronic degenerative mitral valvular disease
... valvular disease, CRD = chronic respiratory disorders, CV = coefficient of variation, ECG = electrocardiography, ET = ejection time, HWD = heartworm disease, LA/Ao = left atrial/aortic root ratio, ...
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Effect of heartworm disease and heartworm associated respiratory disease (HARD) on the right ventricle of cats
... Adult heartworm disease in the dog causes similar degrees of vascular and pulmonary inflammation, with the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH) being relatively common [4, ...
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Investigating management choices for canine heartworm disease in northern Mississippi
... Heartworm infection in this practice resulted most often from inadequate (32.5%), unknown (27.5%) or absent (30.0%) ML preventive use. Even in the 10% of HW- positive dogs that consistently received ML, deeper ...
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Canine heartworm disease (Dirofilaria immitis) in Western Europe: survey of veterinary awareness and perceptions
... of heartworm in the last 12 months were reported by veterinary practitioners in France, Spain and Italy, confirming that in spite of the use Table 7 What percentage of companion animal owners from your non-endemic ...
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Can the activation of plasminogen/plasmin system of the host by metabolic products of Dirofilaria immitis participate in heartworm disease endarteritis?
... Two facts reveal the involvement of plasmin generated by DiES + PLG binding in the degradation of the ECM. First, this treatment for 48 h causes a significant increase in the degradation of the Type I Collagen in the ...
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The Ecology of Dog Heartworm Disease.
... albopictus is an invasive container breeder. Both species have been experimentally implicated as competent heartworm vectors (Intermill 1973, Lai et al. 2000, Tiawsirisup and Kaewthamasorn 2007). Additionally, ...
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Efficacy of 10% imidacloprid + 2 5% moxidectin topical solution (Advantage Multi® for Dogs) for the prevention of heartworm disease and infection all month long
... Two studies evaluated the persistent efficacy of the pretreatment of cats and dogs with topical imidacloprid + moxidectin against heartworm infection. A study with 19 cats examined the effects of four monthly ...
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Forecasting United States heartworm Dirofilaria immitis prevalence in dogs
... Numerous factors are purported to be associated with regional and local variations in D. immitis prevalence in domestic dogs. Highly effective commercially available anthelmintics (e.g. macrocyclic lactones (ML) [3], in- ...
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Increasing incidence of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs in USA with focus on the southeast region 2013–2016
... Canine heartworm disease caused by Dirofilaria immitis can be found throughout the United States of America ...HW disease and have provided recommendations for regular adult HW antigen testing and ...
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Mosquito borne heartworm Dirofilaria immitis in dogs from Australia
... of heartworm preventatives without treatment with mel- arsomine dihydrochloride to eliminate adult worms has the potential to select a population of ...to heartworm preventatives [31]. In Australia, ...
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Factors influencing U S canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) prevalence
... begins heartworm prevention, annual testing of dogs on preventive prophylaxis to verify that the dog has been protected, and assessing whether or not a dog with clinical signs suggestive of heartworm ...
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First epidemiological report of feline heartworm infection in the Barcelona metropolitan area (Spain)
... Europe, heartworm disease is endemic in Mediter- ranean countries [7,8], although some studies have shown that it is spreading towards central and eastern areas of the European continent which were ...
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Validation of immune complex dissociation methods for use with heartworm antigen tests
... lactone heartworm pre- ventives, often in combination with doxycycline, have been administered by veterinarians to heartworm- infected dogs to elicit a slow kill (SK) of heartworm adults when ...
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Protection of dogs against canine heartworm infection 28 days after four monthly treatments with Advantage Multi® for Dogs
... Prevention of heartworm disease by monthly application of macrocyclic lactones (e.g., ivermectin, milbemycin, moxidectin) is based on their ability to kill young devel- oping stages (third-stage and ...
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Prevalence and epidemiology of canine and feline heartworm infection in Taiwan
... American Heartworm Society (AHS) guidelines to diagnose canine heartworm disease with both Ag and microfilaria ...of heartworm-infected dogs not being microfilaremic ...of ...
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Prevalence of heartworm in dogs and cats of Madrid, Spain
... Heartworm disease is caused by Dirofilaria immitis and is a chronic, progressive and potentially fatal disease for the infected animals. The main hosts are dogs and cats, although infection has been ...
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The progression of heartworm associated respiratory disease (HARD) in SPF cats 18 months after Dirofilaria immitis infection
... Respiratory Disease (HARD) is induced by the arrival, at 70 to 90 days post infection (PI), and death of immature adult Dirofilaria immitis and without subsequent development of mature adult heartworms (HWs) in ...
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