Sentences with phrase «produce microfilariae»

The larvae also become sexually mature and produce microfilariae of their own, which are available in the dog's blood to other mosquitoes.

The worms rarely reproduce or produce microfilariae.

These larvae mature into adults, which can be a foot in length, and they produce microfilariae that circulate in the bloodstream.

A population of all male or all female worms can not produce microfilariae.

As the worms mature and mate, they produce microfilaria that are released into the blood stream, picked up by mosquitoes, and spread to other unsuspecting hosts.

The dog (or other host where the mosquito picks up the heartworm) must already be infected with mature male and female heartworms and they must have produced microfilariae that are alive when the dog is bitten and are at the site of the bite.

They produce microfilaria (immature worms) that circulate in the blood.

Male and female adult worms find each other in a dog's episcleral tissues, mate and produce microfilaria that leave the orbit and travel through the skin primarily of the head and back.

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Female worms then produce large numbers of larvae called microfilariae that move to the skin to be ingested again by biting black flies.

Heartworms don't lay eggs like other worms... they produce live baby worms called microfilariae.

They survive up to 5 years and, during this time, the female produces millions of young (microfilaria).

«Single sex heartworm infections, host immune responses affecting the presence of circulating microfilariae and the administration of heartworm preventives can be factors which produce occult infections in dogs.»

Adult female heartworms living in an infected dog, coyote, fox, raccoon, or wolf produce microscopic worms known as microfilariae which circulate in the infected animals bloodstream.

Adult heartworms can then produce live microfilaria, which are released into the bloodstream and the cycle repeats when another mosquito comes along.

(ref1, ref2) We think that Wolbachia enters the heartworm's eggs when they are incubating within the mature female heartworm's uterus to produce already - infected microfilaria.

There are also cases of single - sex heartworm infection where no microfilariae are produced.

The dog is a natural host for heartworms, which means that heartworms that live inside the dog can mature into adults, mate and produce microscopic larval forms called microfilariae.

Microscopic larvae (microfilariae) are produced by adult worms and circulate in the blood.

They live for up to 5 years, during which time they can produce millions of offspring called microfilariae.

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

They live up to five years and during this time produce millions of offspring called microfilaria.

They produce cute little micro-baby heartworms called microfilariae, which hang out in the bloodstream, just waiting for a mosquito to land on the poor, unsuspecting doggy host for a quick meal.

At the center of the body, the heartworm matures into an adult and finally begins to produce young, called microfilaria.

Females produce babies called «microfilaria,» which are shed into an animal's bloodstream but are not capable of directly causing heartworm without first passing through a mosquito.

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.

Diagnosis of canine dirofilariosis in animals which originate from a low - endemic region is difficult for 3 main reasons: 1) possible absence of circulating microfilariae (occult disease), 2) high frequency of a low number of adults, which in turn produces false negative results, using either ELISA or latex agglutination test, 3) possible false sero - positive results, due to cross-reaction with adult antigens of Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens (Schrey, 1996), the agent of subcutaneous dirofilariasis causing chronic pruritic dermatitis in dogs (Tarello, 1999).

It takes a total of 6 months for larvae to mature into adult heartworms which produce more microfilariae.

Females produce babies, called «microfilariae,» which are shed into an animal's bloodstream but are not capable of directly causing heartworm without first passing through a mosquito.

As a result, microfilariae, produced by adult female heartworms in the presence of adult male heartworms, are uncommon in cats.

· The dog has been exposed to medications that happen to kill the microfilaria being produced, but has not had an affect on the adult worms or the medication has resulted in the infertility of the female adult worms.

Adult female heartworms living in an infected dog, fox, coyote, or wolf produce microscopic baby worms called microfilaria that circulate in the bloodstream.

Adult heartworms live in the heart and pulmonary arteries of infected animals, and produce millions of young (microfilaria) that live in the bloodstream.

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.

Adult heartworms living in the heart produce offspring, known as microfilariae, which circulate in the animal's blood.

The female then begins to produce tiny offspring, called microfilariae.

Adult heartworms may live up to five years and, during this time, the female produces millions of offspring called microfilaria.

Adult female worms produce more microfilaria which circulate in the bloodstream until they are also picked up by a mosquito.

A single mature female can produce up to 5,000 microfilariae in one day, each of which can survive in the dog's bloodstream for years, continuing to produce more microfilariae.

Heartworms must not like ivermectin, because they usually stop producing larva (microfilaria) as well.

All heartworm in - office tests rely on finding substances that only mature female heartworms produce or on finding larval heartworms (microfilaria) produced by adult heartworms in your pet.