Sentences with phrase «infected larvae»

When an infected mosquito bites a cat or dog, the infected larvae are injected into an animal.

The infected larvae mature and migrate for many months, eventually ending up in the right side of the cat's heart and pulmonary arteries.

When the mosquito bites another pet, the infected larvae are transmitted.

The infected mosquito then bites another dog and the infected larvae are passed on.

Having said this, in rare cases, serious damage to the organs like the lungs, liver and brain can occur as a result of the inflammation caused by infected larvae circulating around the body.

Heartworm disease is a potentially fatal condition transmitted by the bite of a mosquito that is carrying infected larvae of the heartworm parasite.

Hookworms are spread by eating infected larvae that are in the environment.

When the mosquito bites another mammal, the infected larvae leave the mosquito in the saliva and enter the new host.

When the mosquito bites another dog, cat, or wild animal, the infected larvae are deposited onto the surface of the animal's skin and enter the new host through the mosquito's bite wound.

More than 20 species of mosquitoes are known to spread heartworm, and they can carry the infected larvae for miles, even transmitting the disease from wild animals (such as coyotes) to pets.

The infected larvae burrow deeper into the dog's skin and change their form.

When a mosquito bites the animal, it transmits infected larvae through the bite wound.

When subsequently fed as nymphs, infected larvae retained the spirochetes through the molt and transmitted them to naïve mice.

What's more, infected larvae that consumed alcohol were more likely to survive than teetotallers.

Transmission through contact with an infected larva is very unlikely.

This species has been inadvertently planted by many gardeners with the hope of providing monarch host plants, but it can actually do more harm than good in that it can infect the larvae with a crippling parasite.

Not exact matches

Larvae acquire pathogens after feasting on infected white - footed mice.

The uninfected larvae acquire Borrelia only after taking a blood meal from infected white - footed mice previously bitten by other infected ticks.

Only humans are infected by guinea worm, and the larvae die within months if no one swallows the water fleas carrying them.

In addition to the fungicidal fungi, scientists have also seen small bugs laying their eggs in the infected ant corpse, where their larvae can then eat the growing fungus.

While U-type offered no protection against the larvae, the wasp larvae were more likely to shrivel and die in aphids infected with T - type or R - type.

Infected aphids that rejected a wasp larvae also produced more offspring as adults than uninfected aphids that rejected a wasp larvae.

G.W.'s Davis is part of a project researching the disease schistosomiasis (a.k.a. snail fever or swimmer's itch), a blood parasite transmitted to humans by snails; people can get it by swimming or wading in contaminated fresh water when infected snails release larvae that can penetrate the skin.

The researchers found the order of insect that includes butterflies and the order that includes beetles to be the most likely to be infected when they are larvae.

A zebrafish larva is infected with Cryptococcal meningitis and photographed under a microscope.

Akentrogonid larvae, on the other hand, infect their hosts immediately after hatching.

People contract the disease by drinking unfiltered water harboring larvae - infected fleas.

None of the adults or larvae analysed were infected.

This year, entomologist William Eberhard at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute found that parasitic wasp larvae release a chemical into infected spiders, causing them to weave a modified web that supports the wasp's cocoon.

In a prior study, when larvae were fed upon infected / treated and infected / untreated mice, the ticks were allowed to molt and were used to feed upon naïve SCID mice.

Infected nymphs (artificially infected as larvae) were fed on naïve mice and removed at various time points during Infected nymphs (artificially infected as larvae) were fed on naïve mice and removed at various time points during infected as larvae) were fed on naïve mice and removed at various time points during feeding.

Larvae become infected from feeding on an infected white footed mouse.

If you are infected with this parasite you may have swallowed fleas that were already infected with tapeworm larvae.

Immature fleas (larvae) begin the cycle by swallowing the eggs of the worm and infection is passed on to a cat when it eats an infected flea during grooming.

Slugs and snails, and possibly frogs, carry lungworm larvae and if your puppy eats them he will be infected.

Both kittens and adult cats may become infected by swallowing roundworm eggs (eggs picked up on the fur or feet from contact with infected cats» bowel movements) which contain infective larvae.

Dogs may get hookworms if they come in contact with the larvae in contaminated soil from infected dogs.

Hookworm eggs thrive in warm, moist areas outdoors (soil / grass / sand) and turn into larvae which can infect your puppy in several other ways:

A mosquito bites an infected dog that just happens to have heartworm larvae in the correct stage to enter the mosquito's mouth.

The tapeworm larva which lives in the flea will emerge and infect the dog's intestine.

These eggs or larvae may be present in the feces of infected felines, but may also be found in soil or sand that has been contaminated with feces.

When an infected mosquito bites a dog, the mosquito spreads the larvae of heartworms to the dog through the bite wound.

The flea, who has already been infected with tapeworm larva by feeding on an infected animal.

Even bulldogs, no matter how healthy may get infected when they are bitten by mosquitoes that carry heartworm larvae in their system.

Heartworm is carried by larvae - infected mosquitoes, that then transmit it to your pet through their bite, directly into your dog's bloodstream and to its heart where the worms will hatch and begin to grow.

Dogs do not shed the larvae through feces so it's impossible to get trichinosis from contact with your infected dog.

Once ingested by another animal, the larvae hatch and infect the new host.

Humans: It has been estimated that 14 % of the people in the US are infected with roundworm larvae.2 Roundworms can be transmitted to people through hand - to - mouth contact with contaminated soil, sand, plants and objects such as toys and sporting equipment.

Dogs become infected with hookworms by ingesting these larvae, by ingesting vertebrate hosts or cockroaches with infective larvae in their tissues, or by having the larvae penetrate their skin.

Heartworm disease is caused when an infected mosquito infects a dog with heartworm larvae.