Sentences with phrase «by infected dogs»

It can also be spread through objects that were touched by infected dogs, like toys or water bowls.

Aside from vaccination, the most important thing pet owners can do to prevent the virus is keep their pets away from areas occupied by infected dogs.

It can be found in feces passed by infected dogs, and can infect people if they accidentally touch these feces and don't wash their hands afterwards.

It can also be carried on people's shoes and in crates or bedding used by infected dogs.

This virus targets the gastrointestinal tract and is spread through contact with fecal matter and with objects contaminated by infected dogs.

It can also be picked up if a dog touches or plays with objects that were touched by infected dogs (for example, food bowls, toys).

Canine influenza is thought to be a mainly airborne virus, most likely transmitted by an infected dog sneezing or coughing on another.

H3N2 virus is shed by infected dogs for approximately three weeks, which is a longer period of time than H3N8 is shed.

Remember that this virus has been around since the 1970's, is very hard to disinfect away, and is shed in extremely large numbers by infected dogs.

The disease was transmitted by infected dogs, so local veterinary researchers began vaccinating local dogs.

Most often caused by the bacteria Bordetella bronchiseptica or the virus canine adenovirus, kennel cough is spread through the air by infected dogs sneezing and coughing, as well as with exposure to contaminated surfaces.

In general, cats tend to harbor very few hookworms compared to the number carried by infected dogs.

While H3N8 is shed by infected dogs for 5 days, H3N2 can be shed intermittently for up to 24 days.

Dogs and raccoons infected with Chagas disease are becoming more common, and the area occupied by infected dogs seems to be expanding north.

The vaccine does not prevent infection but rather significantly reduces both the severity of the influenza symptoms and the shedding of the virus into the environment by the infected dog.

A healthy dog can contract the virus as easily as sniffing the feces left by an infected dog.

Intestinal virus (reovirus) infection in dogs is a contagious illness caused by a virus from the Reoviridae family, leading to severe stomach and intestinal suffering by the infected dog.

Because the virus can survive for up to 12 - 48 hours on surfaces, it is pertinent to clean and disinfect counters, tables, floors, walls, cages, bowls, toys and other surfaces that droplet nuclei could have been spread by an infected dog.

When droplets containing the virus or bacteria responsible for kennel cough are expelled into the air by an infected dog's cough, they are transmitted to other dogs via inhaled air.

Although the number of cases here reported is limited and statistical analysis is not possible, the results of the present study show that difficulties in heartworm diagnosis in non-endemic area may be due not only to the unfamiliarity of clinicians with the disease but, also, to false sero - negative diagnostic test results, apparently due to low number of adults nematodes carried by every infected dog.

It can also be transferred indirectly — like if a dog touches or plays with objects that were touched by infected dogs (food bowls or toys).

Casual contact is less likely to be a factor mainly due to the relatively low amount of virus shed by an infected dog.

Remember that this virus has been around since the 1970s, is hard to disinfect, and is shed in extremely large numbers by infected dogs.

Since this disease is viral and contagious your pup can pick it up by infected dogs sneezing and coughing (like a human cold).