Most healthy dogs and cats do not
carry infective fungal spores on their skin or hair.
During grooming or in response to a flea's bite, the dog or cat can ingest the flea
carrying the infective tapeworm egg, which grows in the pet's intestines into adult tapeworms.
Mosquitoes
carrying the infective heartworm larvae (microfilaiae) transmit it to the dog.
Heartworm disease is spread through mosquitoes; so when a mosquito
carrying infective heartworm larvae bites a dog (or other pet), it transmits the infection.
Once a mosquito
carries the infective larvae, when it bites another dog, those larvae are then passed into the bloodstream of the dog.
If puppies are exposed to mosquitoes
carrying infective larvae, they can become infected.
Heart Shield Plus ® flavored chewables should be given at monthly intervals during the period of the year when mosquitoes potentially
carrying infective heartworm larvae are active.
Not exact matches
Most mastitis isn't
infective but even if you have a breast infection, there isn't any evidence to suggest it isn't safe to
carry on breastfeeding (Mohrbacher, N. Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple, 2010; Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 2014).
Then when the mosquito
carrying the «
infective stage» larvae takes a blood meal from an unsuspecting dog, cat, or other susceptible host the larvae of the heartworm enter through the bite location.
Mosquitoes
carrying heartworm larvae bite dogs and introduce the
infective larvae under the skin, or into the blood vessels.
Fully recovered dogs are not
infective — they do not spread or
carry the virus.
Mosquitoes
carrying heartworm larvae bite dogs and inject the
infective larvae into the dog under the skin or into tiny blood vessels as the mosquito takes its blood meal.
When 30 days pass and 234 heartworm development units have not accumulated, mosquitoes will be dying from the cold before any microfilariae they
carry can develop to the
infective stage.
When 30 days pass and 234 heartworm development have not accumulated, mosquitoes will be dying from the cold before any microfilariae they
carry can develop to the
infective stage.