Sentences with phrase «lungworm larva»

Occasionally, lungworm larva, seen in fluid obtained from the cat's lungs (The BALF exam; read more about that farther down), make th e diagnosis.

It is known that these prey animals can harbor these living cat lungworm larva if they have injested cat feces while foraging for food.

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

The morphological identification of lungworm larvae was confirmed by PCR.

Routine fecal examinations used to identify parasite eggs passed in the stool are not useful for identifying lungworm larvae.

When one of the transport hosts is eaten by a cat, the lungworm larvae migrate from the stomach to the lungs.

A special fecal test called a Baermann fecal is used to diagnose lungworm infection by identifying the lungworm larvae passed in the stool.

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The lungworms live in the lungs and release larvae into the lung tissue.

The life cycle of the lungworm includes frogs, lizards, birds, and rodents as transport hosts of encysted larvae.

Stomach worms, lungworms, heartworms, worm larvae under the skin (cuterebra), and fluke worms can also infect cats.