Sentences with phrase «by an infected mosquito which»

These signs are apt to occur about three months after the cat was bitten by an infected mosquito which is the time that they arrive at the heart and lungs.

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Benzoquinoline was also effective against vesicular stomatitis virus from the rhabdovirus family, which can infect insects, cattle, horses and pigs, and Zika virus, which is spread to humans by mosquitoes.

Zika, which is carried by mosquitoes, infected an estimated 1 million people in Brazil alone in 2015, and is now thought to be transmitted in 84 countries, territories and regions.

Every year, about 390 million people are infected with dengue virus, which is primarily spread by Aedes mosquitoes, with tropical climates hit hardest.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

Leishmaniasis is caused by the protozoan leishmania parasites, which are transmitted by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sandflies — flies that are three times smaller than a mosquito.

In addition to transmission by the bite of an infected mosquito, the structural stability of the virus makes it more resilient, which likely explains its special ability to transmit through sexual contact.

In the case of a disease like heartworm, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and infects both wild animal populations and companion animals, there is some natural variation in both drug coverage and mixing.

Those watery, open pits are the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which have infected the desperate miners with malaria by the tens of thousands.

«Their saliva is clearly testing positive for both, which could mean that people bitten by this type of mosquito could be infected by both viruses at once,» said Claudia Rückert, PhD who is presenting the results at the ASTMH meeting.

An estimated 220 million people are infected each year by malaria - causing Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito.

Pregnant women have the same risk as the rest of the population of being infected with Zika virus, which is transmitted by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes.

Today, we know that dengue is indeed passed by infected mosquitoes, which tend to occupy areas with large amounts of standing water.

Dogs can develop heartworm disease by getting bit by a mosquito that has had contact with a heartworm infected mammal (which includes a large assortment of wild animals besides just dogs).

It is transmitted by mosquitoes — which feed on infected birds or other animals — to horses, humans and other mammals.

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.

Heartworms are transmitted from one dog to another by mosquitoes, which pick up tiny immature heartworms, called microfilariae, when they bite an infected dog.

Heartworms are a roundworm scientifically known as Dirofilaria immitis which is transmitted by mosquitoes and can infect more than 30 mammal species including dogs, cat and people.

Heartworms are spread by mosquitoes, which pick up the immature stages from an infected dog, and then pass them on to a different dog when they move on for another blood meal.

«Dogs are infected with heartworms by mosquitoes, but it takes a long time for heartworm larvae to mature into adult, reproducing worms that can strangle the heart,» says Jennifer Miller, President of FOTAS, «so heartworm disease in a healthy, young dog is treatable with a course of antibiotics, which weakens any maturing worms, followed by monthly heartworm prevention medicine, like Heartguard, which every dog in the South should be on anyway.»

It is caused by infected mosquitoes biting your dog and depositing microscopic larvae, which mature and migrate to your dog's heart.

Heartworms are spread by a mosquito bite and even if your puppy is only in your yard for bathroom breaks, it is still possible to become infected with heartworms which are difficult and expensive to treat and can be fatal.

Heartworms are spread by a mosquito bite and even if your dog is only in your yard for bathroom breaks, it is still possible to become infected with heartworms which are difficult and expensive to treat and can be fatal.

Also for dogs, there's the IDEXX 4DX Snap test, which tests for Lyme exposure (in clinically and sub-clinically infected dogs), exposure to Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma platys (tick diseases), detection of antibodies to Ehrlichia canis or Ehrlichia ewingii (more tick disease), and canine heartworm (spread by mosquitoes).

There's two papers now, published by Dr. John McCall, a parasitologist at the University of Georgia, showing that applying a product which has insecticidal and repellent properties toward mosquitoes, was 100 percent effective at preventing the transmission of microfilaria from infected dogs to the mosquitoes.

Malaria, the most important vector - borne disease globally, is transmitted by the bites of infected Anopheles mosquitoes, which prefer clean, standing, or slowly moving fresh water.

Another common travel - related disease that is even less well known is Chikungunya fever, which is a virus transmitted by infected mosquitoes.