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Heartworm adulticide treatment: a tropical perspective [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Dirofilaria immitis (the canine heartworm) is widespread in the tropics, with prevalence surpassing 30% in high-risk areas. In addition to the suitable climatic conditions that favour mosquito abundance and filarial larva development, there is low ...
Filipe Dantas-Torres, Jennifer Ketzis, Gabriela Pérez Tort, Andrei Daniel Mihalca, Gad Baneth, Domenico Otranto, Malaika Watanabe, Bui Khanh Linh, Tawin Inpankaew, Pablo Borrás, Sangaran Arumugam, Barend Louis Penzhorn, Adrian Patalinghug Ybañez, Peter Irwin, Rebecca J. Traub   +14 more
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Factors influencing U.S. canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) prevalence [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background This paper examines the individual factors that influence prevalence rates of canine heartworm in the contiguous United States. A data set provided by the Companion Animal Parasite Council, which contains county-by-county results of over nine ...
Dongmei Wang, Dwight D Bowman, Heidi E Brown, Laura C Harrington, Phillip E Kaufman, Tanja McKay, Charles Thomas Nelson, Julia L Sharp, Robert Lund   +8 more
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Mosquito-borne heartworm Dirofilaria immitis in dogs from Australia

Parasites & Vectors, 2016
Background Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) in dogs is considered endemic in Australia, but the clinical heartworm disease caused by the heartworm is rare and prevalence is low.
Chloe Nguyen, Wei Ling Koh, Andrea Casteriano, Niek Beijerink, Christopher Godfrey, Graeme Brown, David Emery, Jan Šlapeta   +7 more
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Investigating management choices for canine heartworm disease in northern Mississippi

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background There are concerns that the chronic use of macrocyclic lactone preventives to kill adult heartworms (“soft-” or “slow-kill”) may have contributed to the development of macrocyclic lactone resistance.
Tobi N. Ku
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Validation of immune complex dissociation methods for use with heartworm antigen tests

Parasites & Vectors, 2017
Background Antigen testing is routinely used to diagnose canine Dirofilaria immitis infections. Immune complex dissociation (ICD) methods, which were employed in the original heartworm antigen tests to release antigen that was bound by endogenous canine ...
Melissa J. Beall, Andrea Arguello-Marin, Jan Drexel, Jiayou Liu, Ramaswamy Chandrashekar, A. Rick Alleman   +5 more
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Recent advances in heartworm disease

Veterinary Parasitology, 2004
This compilation of articles consists of four papers presented at the 19th International Conference of the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (WAAVP) (held in New Orleans, LA, USA, on 10–14 August 2003) in a symposium session titled “ Recent Advances in Heartworm Disease,” organized and chaired by JohnW.
J. Guerrero, J. W. Mc Call, C. Genchi, C. Bazzocchi, L. Kramer, F. Simòn, M. Mortarino   +6 more
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Historical and Projected Impact of Global Climate Change on the Extrinsic Incubation of <i>Dirofilaria immitis</i>. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We have used past temperature records and future temperature projections to understand the past and possible future epidemiology of canine heartworm. The range of the area hyperendemic for heartworm may change in the future, especially in extreme carbon emissions scenarios.
Atkinson PJ, Nielsen TD, Caraguel C.
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Diagnostic Investigation of Two Cases of Oslerus osleri Infection in Dogs: Microscopic Challenges and Molecular Characterisation. [PDF]

Vet Med Sci
Two cases of young dogs with chronic cough were investigated, one with bronchoalveolar lavage for cytology, the other with endoscopic biopsy for histopathology. DNA was extracted from stained smears and from formalin paraffin‐embedded blocs, six primer pairs spanning the ribosomal RNA gene of O.
Korchia J, Manikantan V, McGrew AK, Jeffries CM, Makii RL, McCord K, Dangoudoubiyam S.   +6 more
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The Curious Case of the “Heartworm” Nebula

The Astrophysical Journal, 2022
Abstract The curious Galactic features near G357.2−0.2 were observed with the MeerKAT radio interferometer array in the UHF and L bands (0.56–1.68 GHz). There are two possibly related features: a newly identified faint heart-shaped partial shell (the “heart”), and a series of previously known but now much better imaged narrow, curved ...
W. D. Cotton, F. Camilo, W. Becker, J. J. Condon, J. Forbrich, I. Heywood, B. Hugo, S. Legodi, T. Mauch, P. Predehl, P. Slane, M. A. Thompson   +11 more
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Drug targets of the heartworm, "Dirofilaria immitis" [PDF]

, 2012
The filarial parasite, Dirofilaria immitis, infects dogs and canids in warm and tropical areas of the globe. Located in the right pulmonary arteries, the heartworm infection is a severe and potentially fatal disease; caused mainly by the adult worm ...
Godel, Christelle
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