Sentences with phrase «parasite load»

That means a lot of cats are carrying intestinal parasite loads that haven't been identified.

They were surprised to see that a significant portion, around a third of the mouse's total parasite load, existed as free parasites in the blood.

Each stool sample should be examined under a microscope, rather than using a float, to determine parasite loads.

Usually, the dog's parasite load stays low due to antibodies the pet produces against the parasites.

Those with heavy parasite loads and with gastrointestinal ulcers are at increased risk of blood loss anemia.

Ph.D. student Evan Palmer - Young and advisor evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler had hoped an earlier finding of reduced parasite load with anabasine consumption was evidence that bees may use «nature's medicine cabinet» to rid themselves of it.

We carefully perfused each animal with 20 mL of ice cold sterile PBS and then harvested the brains and skull cap meninges from each animal and assessed 10 % of homogenated brain and meninges for parasite load using semi-quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) targeting an abundant T. gondii gene family, B1 [20].

Type III - infected mice all had readily detectable parasite load, well above uninfected controls (Figure 2Ai).

But again, there's a difference between a few parasites and a large parasite load that will start to show as ill health in your dog... and that difference is the health of your dog.

To assess relative contributions to terrestrial parasite loading, we evaluated infection and shedding among managed and unmanaged feral domestic cats, mountain lions, and bobcats in coastal California, USA.

Please, understand here and now that it is not the heartworms that cause disease, but the other factors that damaged the dog's health / immune system to the point that they could no longer compensate for an otherwise tolerable parasite load.

Plowe is trying to develop surveillance methods that hit the «sweet spot,» by which he means sensitive enough to detect very low parasite loads in asymptomatic carriers — microscopy is too crude — but portable enough to use in the field.

Over time, because of his increasingly heavy parasite load, the male can no longer chase off competitors; he loses his harem and becomes a lowly bachelor again, until he's shed the worms.

Nutritionally deprived mothers and those with heavy intestinal parasite loads (or fleas or ticks) tend to produce smaller offspring.

The SMRU group is now scaling up and has «mapped» the parasite loads in 1200 villages in Karen state and conducted MDAs in 34.

But it also has useful implications for locust control, if by spraying we can increase the parasite load in the environment.»

We next investigated the parasite load and the immune response in the brains of mice infected with attenuated Type I and Type III parasites during chronic infection.

As expected, both parasite load and brain leukocyte numbers increased and remained well above uninfected levels (Figure 3A and 3B).

Immunological analysis of mice infected with attenuated Type I and low - virulence Type III strains demonstrates that this behavioral change is not directly correlated with parasite load or brain inflammation.

In addition, we show that parasite loads were heavy and also culturally distinct.

Improved management of domestic bees, for example by reducing their parasite loads and their overlap with wild congeners, could diminish or even eliminate pathogen spillover.

Decreasing your parasite load (i.e., getting rid of your parasites) can make you more intelligent.

Current protocols favor fecal egg counts (FECs) to measure an individual horse's parasite load — reported as eggs per gram (EPG) of parasite eggs.

No study prior to this had been conducted to understand the parasite load of these cats.

On rare occasions the parasite load can be so heavy that the intestines become obstructed.

Symptoms manifested by pets that are infected with internal parasites can vary, and depend on a pet's age, nutritional status, parasite load, duration of infestation, etc..

Reviewing the chart below with your veterinarian will help eliminate heavy parasite loads and keep your horse healthy and thriving year - round.

Environmental factors that contribute to allergies include not only exposure to allergens, but parasite load and the administration of vaccines.

In dogs that have adjusted better to their parasite load, the stools may be well formed - but they are coated with mucus, secreted by their colon, in an attempt to shield their intestine from harm (mucoid stools).

Environmental factors include exposure to allergens, parasite load and the administration of vaccines.

If a dog has a compromised immune system, due to illness, parasite load, malnutrition, immune - suppressive medications, or stress its immune system may not be able to respond to a vaccine.

But a global look at the parasite load in these sick bees suggests there are still some unanswered questions.