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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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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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Dirofilaria immitis in wolves recolonizing northern Italy: are wolves competent hosts?

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Wild carnivores such as the grey wolf (Canis lupus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and golden jackal (Canis aureus) are recognized hosts of Dirofilaria immitis.
Barbara Moroni, Luca Rossi, Pier Giuseppe Meneguz, Riccardo Orusa, Simona Zoppi, Serena Robetto, Francesca Marucco, Paolo Tizzani   +7 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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Eosinophilic bronchitis, eosinophilic granuloma, and eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy in 75 dogs (2006-2016). [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundEosinophilic lung disease is a poorly understood inflammatory airway disease that results in substantial morbidity.ObjectiveTo describe clinical findings in dogs with eosinophilic lung disease defined on the basis of radiographic, bronchoscopic,
Dear, Jonathan D, Hulsebosch, Sean E, Johnson, Eric G, Johnson, Lynelle R, Vernau, William   +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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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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Effect of pre-cardiac and adult stages of Dirofilaria immitis in pulmonary disease of cats: CBC, bronchial lavage cytology, serology, radiographs, CT images, bronchial reactivity, and histopathology [PDF]

, 2003
A controlled, blind study was conducted to define the initial inflammatory response and lung damage associated with the death of precardiac stages of Dirofilaria immitis in cats as compared to adult heartworm infections and normal cats.
Ray Dillon, A., Tillson, D.M., Wooldridge, A., Cattley, R., Hathcock, J., Brawner, W.R., Cole, R., Welles, B., Christopherson, P.W., Lee-Fowler, T., Bordelon, S., Barney, S., Sermersheim, M., Garbarino, R., Wells, S.Z., Diffie, E.B., Schachner, E.R.   +16 more
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Heartworms in Halichoerus grypus: first records of Acanthocheilonema spirocauda (Onchocercidae; Filarioidea) in 2 grey seals from the North Sea

Parasitology, 2023
The assumed definitive host of the heartworm Acanthocheilonema spirocauda (Onchocerdidae; Filarioidea) is the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina). This filaroid nematode parasitizing in cardiac ventricles and blood vessel lumina of harbour seals (P.
Kristina Lehnert, Insa Herzog, Joy Ometere Boyi, Stephanie Gross, Peter Wohlsein, Christa Ewers, Ellen Prenger-Berninghoff, Ursula Siebert   +7 more
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Dog filariosis in the Lazio region (Central Italy): first report on the presence of [PDF]

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Epidemiological investigations were carried out in the Lazio Region to assess the status of canine filariosis and to evaluate the actual risk for veterinary and medical public health.
Paola Scaramozzino, Simona Gabrielli, Michele Di Paolo, Marcello Sala, Francesco Scholl, Gabriella Cancrini, L Rossi, G Poglayen, G Petruschke, M Pietrobelli, C Genchi, JM Doby, LM Ortega-Mora, D Piergili Fioretti, G Cringoli, I Kanev, H Bucklar, C Himonas, C Chauve, J Lucientes, G Cancrini, A Marconcini, A Mantovani, CA Rawlings, J Euzeby, G Favia, X Xie, JD Thompson, O Barriga, C Genchi, C Genchi, G Cancrini, G Cancrini, S Pampiglione   +33 more
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