Sentences with phrase «since microfilaria»

If your pet is off Ivermectin / Pyrantel for 6 months or less, start the medication and test after 6 months since microfilaria, that take 6 months to mature, will result in a positive test result.

If the dog has not taken heartworm preventative for 6 months or less, start the medication and test for heartworms after 6 months since microfilaria, that take 6 months to mature, will result in a positive heartworm test result.

If your pet is off Sentinel for 6 months or less, re-start the medication and test after 6 months since microfilaria, that take 6 months to mature, will result in a positive test result.

Since the microfilariae can cause lung and liver damage, dogs infected with microfilariae may cough, look jaundiced, and be weak.

Not exact matches

Since there are rarely baby heartworms (microfilaria), heartworm diagnostic tests that rely on finding them rarely work in cats.

This test should be used on any dogs that are on Heartgard since they will not have microfilariae in their bloodstream.

Since it takes at least 6 months from the time a mosquito injects microfilaria into a dog until these microfilaria become adult heartworms, puppies must be at least 6 months of age before adult heartworms are present.

It can occur if mostly male heartworms are causing an infection, since they do not release microfilaria.

Since the primary method of diagnosis is detection of these microfilaria, either visually, or with monoclonal antibody tests, it is possible to miss a diagnosis.

Since it is checking for this antibody, if there are only the microfilaria present, the test will come up a false negative.