Sentences with phrase «ingested by the parasites»

These diseases are ingested by the parasites your dog is hosting and the longer that they go untreated the greater your puppy's chances of being infected.

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Stomach acid plays an essential role in the digestion process by killing harmful bacteria and parasites ingested with food.

A fully - grown dog or cat can pick up the parasites by eating infected food or water, or feces found in soil, thereby ingesting roundworm eggs too small to be noticeable.

Most frequently, the cat gets infected with parasites by ingesting parasites eggs.

The roundworm is a patient, persistent parasite that can lay up to 100,000 eggs in a single day.1 Once an egg is accidentally ingested by a dog, the roundworm hatches and makes its way through the body to an ideal feeding ground, the intestine.

A heartworm infected host (usually, but not necessarily, a dog) is bitten by a mosquito vector that ingests the L1 stage (also known as microfilariae) of the parasite.

Indoor cats may also be exposed to parasites when they eat contaminated food or by ingesting parasite eggs through grooming or exposure to infectious feces.

Dogs and cats contract coccidia by ingesting soil or grass contaminated with eggs or ingesting small animals, like mice, infected with the parasites.

«Coccidiosis in dogs is caused by dog coccidia parasites that are ingested after eating fecal matter.

Other intestinal parasites, such as roundworms, hookworms and whipworms, live in the soil and can be easily passed on to your dog if it ingests these eggs by licking his feet, eating dirt, etc..

Cats can become infected with coccidia by ingesting soil that contains the single - celled parasite, or by eating a rodent that is infected with it.

Most importantly, the paper cited above plainly states that there is a low frequency of infected meat (which happens when infected rats and birds primarily, which are known as intermediate hosts, defecate in the food supply after being infected by ingesting T. Gondii parasites).

Adult cats get it by ingesting the eggs of this parasite, or by ingesting an infected rodent or the feces of an infected cat.

Most of these parasites are spread by fecal - oral contamination - stepping on another animal's stool, then grooming the paws and ingesting it, such as sharing a litterbox, or by eating grass that some animal has defecated on up to 2 years earlier, because that is how long some eggs can exist in the environment.

The parasite can remain dormant as a cystozoite (a cystic developing stage) in the muscles cells of this vertebrate host until it is ingested by a dog and causes ACH.

Giardia is a protozoan parasite that is ingested by dogs when infectious cysts are shed in infected dog's feces.

Dogs get infested with parasite infections by ingesting contaminated meat, feces, infected rodents and grass.

Kittens and puppies may also contract parasites while developing inside the mother or postnatally by ingesting the mother's milk.

Hunting dogs and cats are particularly at risk of contracting a parasite as they could ingest parasites hosted by their prey.

Once a Giardia cyst is ingested by a dog, it makes its way to the dog's small intestine, where it opens up and releases the active form of the parasite which attaches itself to the intestinal wall and begins to reproduce by cell division.

Most of these common parasites are contracted by ingesting infected soil, water, bodily waste, or an infected host such as a bird or rodent.

The parasite can be ingested from aerosolized cat feces in settings like horse barns inhabited by «barn cats» and by drinking contaminated water.

It is caused by the blood parasite Dirofilaria immitis, with immature heartworms transmitted to healthy animals by mosquitos that have recently ingested blood from an infected animal.

Whipworms are pesky parasites that live in the large intestine of your dog and are transmitted by ingesting infected matter and can be present in soil, food or water.