Sentences with phrase «highly endemic area»

This may be due to the fact that heartworm has a virtual 100 % prevalence rate in unprotected dogs living in highly endemic areas.

Did you know that cats can get heartworm disease if they enter highly endemic areas like the Gulf Coast?

In many highly endemic areas like the Florida and Texas Gulf Coast, the adult heartworm infection rate is equal to or HIGHER than the FeLV and FIV infection rates.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, parasite antigens that are highly immunogenic (i.e., they are recognized by the majority of individuals in an endemic area) are unlikely to be protective; rather they represent decoys specifically deployed by the parasite to distract our immune system.

«[PAM] is highly lethal but very rare, even in areas where it's endemic,» says Stanley Deresinski, MD, a clinical professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Stanford University.

In areas where Lyme disease is highly endemic, particularly the Northeastern, mid-Atlantic, and upper mid-western U.S., it is recommended to have your pet vaccinated against Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

According to a joint publication by the American Veterinary Medical Association and American Animal Hospital Association, which groups vaccines according to whether they are core (or highly recommended) or non-core (considered elective, unless the diseases are endemic in the area), dogs should receive four core vaccines, while cats should receive between four and five.