Sentences with phrase «with immature worms»

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When a mosquito sucks blood from an infected animal, immature worms are taken up with the blood.

When a mosquito bites a dog infected with heart worms, the mosquito ingests first - stage heart worm larvae (immature heart worms).

Once the immature parasites have been treated, the adult worms are killed with a series of two or three treatments of a worm - killing poison called melarsomine dihydrochloride.

About Heartworm Disease in Cats The incidence of heartworm disease in cats closely correlates with the infection rate in dogs, but in cats the disease is often a result of immature worms that never become adults.

Immature worms arriving in the pulmonary vasculature can cause pulmonary arterial, arteriolar, and airway lesions as severe as those seen with death of adult heartworms.

The inflammatory response to the arrival of immature worms in the lungs may cause asthma - like signs.2 These cats may initially present with a history of coughing, dyspnea, and vomiting.

Antigen testing is not as effective at detecting infection with adult worms < 5 months old and is unable to detect immature worm infections, male - only infections, and some infections with only one adult female worm.1 If the infection does not produce an adult worm, the worms are immature at the time of testing, or only male adult worms are present, a false - negative result may be obtained.

In fact, circulating antibodies to D. immitis are present not only during infection with adult worms, but also during infection with immature and larval stages (Kramer and Genchi, 2002).

Heartworm associated respiratory disease (HARD), a common problem in cats with heartworm disease, occurs when your pet's lungs become inflamed due to the death of immature worms.

At this time the emodepside product is the only one that can attack immature worms still in the process of migration, as well as the intestinal adults with one treatment.