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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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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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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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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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Heartworm Infection

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1987
Dirofilaria immitis is an epizootic filarial parasite that most often infects domestic dogs. This article provides information about the life cycle of Dirofilaria immitis as well as the epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical signs, and treatment of heartworm infection.
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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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Diagnostic Accuracy of a Point-of-Care Immunoassay for Feline Immunodeficiency Virus Antibodies, Feline Leukemia Virus Antigen, and Dirofilaria immitis Antigen

Viruses, 2023
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) and feline leukemia virus (FeLV) are retroviral infections of cats worldwide whose clinical manifestations range from mild to severe disease.
Seema Singh, Kristen A. Davenport, Elizabeth Schooley, Anthony Ruggiero, Salam Nassar, Jesse Buch, Ramaswamy Chandrashekar   +6 more
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Dog importation and changes in heartworm prevalence in Colorado 2013–2017

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Animal welfare organizations, in order to increase dog adoptions and reduce euthanasia of homeless dogs, are transporting large numbers of dogs from state-to-state.
Jason Drake, Rudolph S. Parrish
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Retrospective Analysis of Heartworm (Dirofilia immitis) Prevention Medication Compliance and Economic Value in Dogs in Veterinary Practices in Australia

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Background: Canine heartworm (HW) is endemic in Australia. Prevention usually involves monthly topical or oral preventives, or annual injections of extended-release moxidectin (ProHeart SR-12*1), hereafter referred to as injectable moxidectin (IM).
Kennedy Mwacalimba, Andrea Wright, Konstantinos Giannakakis, Richard L'Estrange, Tinh-Son Nguyen   +4 more
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Evaluation of heat-treating heartworm-positive canine serum samples during treatment with Advantage Multi® for Dogs and doxycycline

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background The use of heat-treatment in canine and feline serum has been hypothesized to break the formation of antigen-antibody complexes, thereby freeing the heartworm antigen allowing for detection by commercially available heartworm antigen kits ...
Molly D. Savadelis, Jennifer L. Roveto, Cameon M. Ohmes, Joe A. Hostetler, Terry L. Settje, Michael T. Dzimianski, Andrew R. Moorhead   +6 more
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