Evaluation of lung pathology in Dirofilaria immitis-experimentally infected dogs treated with doxycycline or a combination of doxycycline and ivermectin before administration of melarsomine dihydrochloride

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 357-360

  Kramer, L ^a   Grandi, G ^a   Passeri, B ^a   Gianelli, P ^a   Genchi, M ^b   Dzimianski, M T ^c   Supakorndej, P ^d   Mansour, A M ^d   Supakorndej, N ^d   McCall, S D ^d   McCall, J W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d TRS Labs Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirofilaria immitis; Doxycycline; Ivermectin; Lung pathology; Melarsomine; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; IVERMECTIN; MELARSOMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LESION; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; VASCULITIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; ARSENICALS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; IVERMECTIN; LUNG; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TRIAZINES; WOLBACHIA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 79952899207     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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