Sentences with phrase «of filarial»
The heartworm is a type of filarial worm, a small thread - like worm, that causes filariasis.
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Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is caused by a species of filarial round worms, or nematodes, transmitted by mosquitoes.
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While medications currently exist to treat lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, the two main diseases caused by filarial nematodes, the drugs are insufficient to eliminate the diseases by 2020 and researchers project that resistance will arise to some of the drugs.
Point - of - care quantification of blood - borne filarial parasites with a mobile phone microscope
Clinical samples from two groups of individuals from the south Pacific island of Mauke and from Ecuador — one group infected with filarial worms causing lymphatic filariasis and a second group infected with intestinal roundworms Ascaris — revealed increased levels of resistin in the infected individuals compared to those who were uninfected or immune.
But they do know that another filarial parasite of humans, Onchocerca volvulus, is very similar to the dog heartworm.
External mites (acariasis) are not a big problem in chameleons so I will limit this discussion to intestinal parasites, hemoparasites (in the blood) and lungworms, with a brief mention of subcutaneous filarial worms.
At the present time, heartworm disease caused by the filarial helminth Dirofilaria immitis is not endemic in most of the European countries (Greeve et al., 1983; Schrey, 1996).
When fixed using 2 per cent formalin, microfilariae of D. immitis are 262 - 338 mm in length and 4 - 6,2 mm in width (Schrey, 1996), distinguishing them from the non-pathogenic filarial larvae of A. reconditum which are shorter and thinner (241 - 287 mm x 3,8 - 5 mm).
Mak JW, Yen PK, Lim KC, Ramiah N. (1980) Zoonotic implications of cats and dogs in filarial transmission in Peninsula Malaysia.
Dirofilaria repens is a zoonotic filarial nematode parasite of dogs, cats and wild carnivores transmitted by mosquitoes (Pampiglione et al., 1995).
First, the introduction of melarsomine dihydrochloride in the mid-1990s revolutionized the treatment of adult heartworm infection by providing superior efficacy via intramuscular administration.1 The next great leap forward in heartworm treatment came with the discovery that some filarial worms harbor a type of bacteria, Wolbachia, and that elimination of these bacteria proved beneficial to the animal and reduced the complications of disease.2