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Mosquito diversity and dog heartworm prevalence in suburban areas

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Urbanization is occurring rapidly on a global scale and is altering mosquito communities, creating assemblages that are characteristically less diverse. Despite high rates of urbanization and ample examples of vector-borne diseases transmitted
Meredith R. Spence Beaulieu, Jennifer L. Federico, Michael H. Reiskind   +2 more
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Management and outcome of intracardiac heartworms in dogs

Parasites & Vectors, 2023
Background Intracardiac heartworm (IH) disease is a serious condition that can become life threatening if the patient develops caval syndrome. We aim to describe the management and outcome of IH in dogs evaluated by Medvet’s New Orleans cardiology ...
Jorge Vila, Elisabeth Alost
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Factors influencing U.S. canine heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) prevalence

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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Heartworm adulticide treatment: a tropical perspective

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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Updated canine infection rates for Dirofilaria immitis in areas of Brazil previously identified as having a high incidence of heartworm-infected dogs

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Canine heartworm infections were frequently diagnosed in Brazil before the new millennium. After the year 2000, the frequency of diagnosis showed a sharp decline; however, a few years later, new evidence indicated that the parasite was still ...
Norma Vollmer Labarthe, Jonimar Pereira Paiva, Larissa Reifur, Flavya Mendes-de-Almeida, Alexandre Merlo, Carlos Jose Carvalho Pinto, Paulo Sérgio Juliani, Maria Angela Ornelas de Almeida, Leucio Câmara Alves   +8 more
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Increasing incidence of Dirofilaria immitis in dogs in USA with focus on the southeast region 2013–2016

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background A recent American Heartworm Society (AHS) survey on the incidence of adult heartworm infections in dogs in the United States of America showed a 21.7% increase in the average cases per veterinary clinic from 2013 to 2016. The analysis reported
Jason Drake, Scott Wiseman
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Factors associated with heartworm preventative use in the golden retriever lifetime study

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023
IntroductionHeartworm disease is preventable with use of heartworm preventatives, but the reported prevalence of heartworm preventative use in the United States is low, some estimates falling around 50% of dogs.
Lauren Wisnieski, Vina Faulkner, Charles Faulkner   +2 more
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Exposure to selected pathogens in Geoffroy's cats and domestic carnivores from central Argentina [PDF]

, 2012
Wild carnivores share a high percentage of parasites and viruses with closely related domestic carnivores. Because of increased overlap and potential contact with domestic species, we conducted a retrospective serosurvey for 11 common carnivore pathogens
Ferreyra, Hebe del Valle, Marull, Carolina A., Pereira, Javier Adolfo, Rago, María Virginia, Uhart, Marcela María   +4 more
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Prevention and long-term outcomes of naturally occurring canine heartworm infection in primary care settings

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
BackgroundThis study had two objectives: first, to examine the association between the history of heartworm preventive purchase compliance and the risk of positive heartworm tests, and second to preliminarily investigate the long-term cardiac outcomes of
Kennedy Mwacalimba, Jo Ann Morrison, Patrick Ly, Nathaniel Spofford, Mike Yang, Emi Saito, Jenifer Sheehy, Christopher Adolph, Barbara Poulsen Nautrup, Christopher Brennan   +9 more
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Prime detection of Dirofilaria immitis: understanding the influence of blocked antigen on heartworm test performance

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Detection of circulating antigen of Dirofilaria immitis has been a mainstay of identifying heartworm infection in clinical practice for the past three decades.
Susan Little, Meriam Saleh, Megan Wohltjen, Yoko Nagamori   +3 more
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