Sentences with phrase «new microfilariae»

The adult worms live in the heart and major blood vessels where they reproduce to create new microfilariae.

At approximately 5 to 7 months post-infection, if both adult females and males are present, they will mate and produce new microfilariae.

In the skin the larvae mate and form so - called new microfilaria, which then reach the dog's bloodstream.

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If a dog is bitten by the pregnant female mosquito, her microfilariae are released into the circulatory system and they wait there for a new mosquito to bite the dog again.

In this final stage, the microfilariae migrates to the heart and out into the pulmonary arteries (if there is room) where it will mate, approximately 5 - 7 months after first entering the new host.

Once in the bloodstream of the new host, the microfilariae will spend the next week or two developing into the next stage of development within the host's skin.

If a mosquito bites a dog whose blood is filled with microfilaria, the mosquito will become a new vector of the parasite, the microfilaria of which turn into larvae inside the mosquito.

The problem with using the slow - kill technique to kill adult heartworms, experts say, is this: If there are microfilariae in the infected dog that are resistant to the macrocyclic lactone drug used, those parasites will be transmitted to mosquitoes, potentially finding their way to a new dog in which to reproduce, increasing the risk to all dogs in the area.

Approximately eight months after the invasion, cat heartworm begins to produce a new crop of microfilariae that will live in the cat's blood for about one month.

Earlier this year, I examined 29 young dogs presented to shelters for routine spay / neuter in Farmington and Aztec, New Mexico and found episcleral granulomas with nematodes in 3 dogs and microfilaria in a skin snip biopsy from one of the dogs with episcleral nematodes.

However, in stage one the disease has not yet progressed to the point where the heartworms will have produced a new generation of microfilariae and dog's body will not yet have produced antigens in an amount sufficient for detection.

The newer products such as the selamectin and moxidectin products do not clear microfilaria well enough to be used to treat an active infection so right now the ivermectin - based products seem to be the best for this use.

When that mosquito bites another animal, the matured microfilaria larva, are then passed on to the new animal during the bite.