Sentences with phrase «intermediate host animals»

Even the most effective tapeworm medicines will not prevent re-infection if there are adult fleas or lice in a dog's environment, or if the dog has access to rabbits, rats, rodents or other infected intermediate host animals.

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Others, such as Sarcocystis parasites, first live in an intermediate host, the prey animal of the wolf, and reach their final host, the wolf, only if the intermediate host has been consumed by the final host.

Malaria cases increase with deforestation, researchers have found, while new roads through the rain forest provide corridors for the migration of people, insects and animals that serve as intermediate hosts for pathogens, Wilson said.

It is however likely that bats are the natural hosts for the virus, and that human infections are the result of contact with other animals such as camels acting as intermediate hosts.

In the paper, the authors stressed that understanding the genetic makeup of these molluscs is important because many «freshwater snails are intermediate hosts for flatworm parasites and transmit infectious diseases» to humans and other animals.

A mosquito bites an infected animal and then is an intermediate host, spreading the parasite when it bites other animals.

Cats get infected when they eat slugs or snails that act as the intermediate host or they eat the birds or animals that consume the infected slugs or snails.

A parasitic roundworm caused by the Dirofilaria immitis, heartworm is spread from animal to animal through the intermediate host, the mosquito.

People should avoid eating raw or undercooked meat that comes from animals that are known to be potential intermediate hosts of the larval stage of these parasites, such as sheep, cattle and rabbits.

It is ingested when cats eat another animals» feces or infected intermediate hosts such as rodents and rabbits.

In addition, the eggs may be eaten by another animal («intermediate host») such as a small rodent (for example a mouse or rat), and a cat can be infected by preying on (eating) the infected intermediate host.

Another possible mode of infection includes ingesting an infected intermediate host; this will typically be a prey animal, such as a bird or mouse.

Several different species of tapeworms may infect our animals, each with different intermediate hosts.