Chapter 4 Heartworm Disease in Animals and Humans

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2008, Pages 193-285

  McCall, John W ^a   Genchi, Claudio ^b   Kramer, Laura H ^c   Guerrero, Jorge ^d   Venco, Luigi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Viale Cremona   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; AVERMECTIN; BVDI20 22 ANTIGEN; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DIGOXIN; DOXYCYCLINE; DOXYCYCLINE PLUS IVERMECTIN; FUROSEMIDE; IMIDACLOPRID PLUS MOXIDECTIN; IVERMECTIN; IVERMECTIN PLUS PYRANTEL PAMOATE; MACROLIDE; MELARSOMINE; MILBEMYCIN; MILBEMYCINE OXIME; MILBEMYCINE OXIME PLUS LUFENURON; MILBEMYCINE OXIME PLUS PRAZIQUANTEL; MOXIDECTIN; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE; SELAMECTIN; TETRACYCLINE; VACCINE;

ACANTHOCHEILONEMA DRACUNCULOIDES; ACANTHOCHEILONEMA RECONDITUM; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CARNIVORE; CAT DISEASE; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG DISEASE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FERRET DISEASE; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATION; MICROFILARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS; ANIMAL; CAT; DOG; FEMALE; FERRET; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIA REPENS; FELIDAE; MUSTELA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FERRETS; FILARICIDES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 43449084926     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-308X(08)00204-2     Document Type: Review

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