The goal is to intervene at two different stages — first, to help prevent mosquitoes from feeding on microfilaremic dogs and wild canids, and second, to prevent infected mosquitoes from biting dogs, cats or ferrets and
transmitting infective larvae.
The mosquito bites another dog where the haircoat is thinnest,
transmitting this infective larvae into the second dog.
Not exact matches
Mosquitoes carrying the
infective heartworm larvae (microfilaiae)
transmit it to the dog.
Ringworm is
transmitted by direct contact with an infected animal or contact with an item that is contaminated with
infective fungal spores.
These two species of worms are
transmitted to humans through the ingestion of roundworm eggs which contain
infective larvae.
Remember that the virus can remain
infective on surfaces and people which handle an infected cat should stay especially clean to avoid
transmitting the virus to other cats.
Then, when the mosquito bites another pet, the
infective larvae are
transmitted.
These
infective larvae can then be
transmitted to another animal when the mosquito bites to get its next meal of blood.
The Double Defense Heartworm Protocol means protecting dogs from mosquitoes which may
transmit heartworms as well as from the
infective larvae on the inside.
Heartworm disease is spread through mosquitoes; so when a mosquito carrying
infective heartworm larvae bites a dog (or other pet), it
transmits the infection.
Vectra 3D blocks transmission (~ 98 percent) by repelling the mosquito before it bites the dog and
transmits the heartworm
infective larvae.
When the infected mosquito bites into another dog, cat, or wild canid the
infective larvae are
transmitted to the new host.
These babies then mature to the «
infective larvae» stage over a period of 10 - 14 days, and are
transmitted to a new dog or cat host when the mosquito bites them.
The mosquito is now highly
infective, primed and ready to
transmit the larvae the next time it bites an animal.
EVA can be
transmitted via embryo transfer where the donor mare is bred with
infective semen.
Within a wide range of temperature, the warmer the ambient temperature, the shorter the incubation period from the time the mosquito imbibes the
infective blood until the mosquito is able to
transmit by bite.