Cats infected with feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) may not show symptoms until years
after the initial infection occurred.
Not exact matches
First,
after a person is bitten by a parasite - carrying mosquito there is an
initial infection in the liver, followed by the long - lasting red blood cell stage where the clinical symptoms of the malaria disease
occur, and finally the mosquito stage, which is required to transmit the parasites to other people.
The
initial acute stage
occurs approximately four to six weeks
after infection.
A syndrome related to this inflammatory reaction has been identified in cats: heartworm - associated respiratory disease, which can
occur three to four months
after the
initial infection, and is caused by the presence of the L5 larvae in the vessels.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 15 percent of people infected with untreated syphilis reach the late stage, which can
occur up to 20 years
after initial infection.