Sentences with phrase «as an intermediate host»

The parasite uses mice as an intermediate host, while cats are required as a host for the parasite to complete sexual reproduction in its life cycle.

In heartworms, a mosquito serves as the intermediate host for the larval stage of the worm, also known as the microfilariae.

Also, fleas serve as an intermediate host for tapeworms, which can infect both your pet and humans.

Fleas act as an intermediate host for tapeworm, as adult fleas consume the tapeworm eggs.

Heartworms must have the mosquito as an intermediate host, which means that a dog can not catch heartworms simply by interacting with an infected dog.

There are several kinds of tapeworm the most common being Dipylidium Caninum this tapeworm uses fleas as the intermediate host whereas Taenia and Echinococcus which are less common are contracted by contact with either rodents such as rats, squirrels, mice and birds or larger livestock like Deer, Sheep, and Horses.

Heartworm infection, caused by the organism Dirofilaria immitis, is spread by mosquitoes (at least 70 species of mosquitoes serve as intermediate hosts carrying these organisms).

Most importantly, the paper cited above plainly states that there is a low frequency of infected meat (which happens when infected rats and birds primarily, which are known as intermediate hosts, defecate in the food supply after being infected by ingesting T. Gondii parasites).

The flea acts as the intermediate host for the tapeworm (Dipylidium caninum).

Fleas are carriers of disease including the plague and also serve as an intermediate host for tapeworms, both of which are potentially hazardous to you and your family as well.

Heartworm - Heartworm infection, caused by the organism Dirofilaria immitis, is spread by mosquitoes (at least 70 species of mosquitoes serve as intermediate hosts carrying these organisms).

Coinciding with mosquito season, heartworm disease is carried by the mosquito as an intermediate host, who when it bites a dog, transmits the microscopic worm into the dog's bloodstream.

- Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that use fleas as an intermediate host, then infect the kitten when a flea is eaten.

They are used as intermediate hosts for a slew of helminth parasites, many of which do infect humans.

Malaria cases increase with deforestation, researchers have found, while new roads through the rain forest provide corridors for the migration of people, insects and animals that serve as intermediate hosts for pathogens, Wilson said.

It is however likely that bats are the natural hosts for the virus, and that human infections are the result of contact with other animals such as camels acting as intermediate hosts.

They believe that MERS - CoV may originally come from bats and may have reached the human population via other animals acting as intermediate hosts.

A young goat herder prepares to drink dam water through a pipe filter, which keep out the water fleas that serve as an intermediate host for Guinea worm larvae.

There is also another type of tapeworm that is transmitted through small rodents, such as mice, rats, squirrels or rabbits, that serve as the intermediate host.

Cats get infected when they eat slugs or snails that act as the intermediate host or they eat the birds or animals that consume the infected slugs or snails.

You can not get Dipylidium caninum tapeworms directly from your dog, as it depends on the flea as the intermediate host.

At least 70 species of mosquitos can serve as intermediate hosts; Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex are the most common genera acting as vectors.

Sheep and sometimes humans can act as the intermediate hosts for Echinococcus, with the immature forms of Echinococcus developing inside various organs of these species.

Fleas are carriers of disease and also serve as an intermediate host for tapeworms.

According to Ron Hines, DVM PhD of 2nd Chance, if these irritants have consumed tapeworm eggs in the past, they act as intermediate hosts for transmitting parasitic worms into your dog.

Heartworms require the mosquito as an intermediate host and as many as 30 species of mosquitoes can act as this host and transmit heartworms.

Two Heartworms need the mosquito as an intermediate host.

Heartworms require the mosquito as an intermediate host and there are as many as 30 species of mosquitos acting as hosts which can transmit heartworms.