Sentences with phrase «tiny microfilaria»

When a mosquito bites an infected animal (dog, cat, coyote, fox, wolf, etc) and takes a blood meal, the mosquito ingests tiny microfilaria worms.

Heartworm tests can not show a positive result until the tiny microfilaria reach 6 - 7 months of development.

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When the mosquito prepares bites a dog, L3 microfilariae enter the dog's skin through the tiny wounds from the bite.

Heartworms are transmitted from one dog to another by mosquitoes, which pick up tiny immature heartworms, called microfilariae, when they bite an infected dog.

Tiny heartworm larvae are injected into the blood stream where they mature over the span of about 6 months until they reach adulthood in the veins of the pulmonary artery and lungs, where they reproduce and release microfilaria into the blood for the mosquito to ingest and pass on.

Dogs with a very large number of microfilariae (baby heartworms) can suffer a reaction if those tiny parasites all die at once when given ivermectin.

Heartworm in Dogs: When a dog is bitten by an infected mosquito, the microfilariae is deposited in a tiny drop of mosquito saliva adjacent to the mosquito bite.

The mosquito bites the infected dog, ingests the tiny heartworm microfilaria, provides a host for the next stage of development of the parasite, then transfers the juvenile larvae to the bloodstream of the next dog she feeds on.

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

Microfilariae are tiny and require a microscope to be seen.