Sentences with phrase «long immature adult»
• By about three months post-infection, 2 - inch - long immature adult heartworms are in the pulmonary arteries.
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They found that dendrites in adult mouse brains were studded with long spines, a hallmark of immature neurons.
The whale, said Franklin, was an immature adult about seven years old and 15 metres long.
It is estimated that about 3 to 4 percent of the immature adults become 6 - inch - long adult heartworms and live for two to four years before dying spontaneously.
• About 3 percent to 4 percent of the immature adults become 6 - inch - long adult heartworms.
Severe Damage The various disorders brought about by heartworm infection are in part attributable to the impressive size of the parasite — white, spaghetti - like creatures that can grow to be nearly a foot long — and to the inflammatory response that immature and dying adult worms induce.
Flea control measures include: bathing, dipping, collars, Sentinel («flea birth control» - an oral tablet that acts by sterilizing fleas), Capstar (oral tablet offers rapid elimination of adult fleas, usually within 30 minutes), Comfortis (month - long chewable tablet that kills fleas and prevents reinfestations), Advantage topical (kills fleas up to thirty days with monthly application), Frontline topical (kills fleas and ticks), Revolution topical (heartworm preventative and kills fleas and ticks as well), Vectra topical (works by killing adult fleas, preventing development of immature flea stages, and repelling ticks and mosquitoes), Trifexis (monthly chewable tablet for dogs that kills fleas, prevents heartworm disease, and treats / controls adult hookworm, roundworm and whipworm infections), and - very important - treating the environment with carpet powders, foggers, or sprays.
Immature fleas can remain dormant in carpets, bedding, and other areas of your home for a long time, and approximately only 5 % of the flea population found in a home are adult fleas.
The AHS reports immature heartworms in the circulatory system can cause serious and long - lasting respiratory disease even when no adult infection occurs.