… detecting antigenemia in dogs associated with sexually mature female heartworms (Dirofilaria
immitis… To define the sensitivity (Se) and specificity (Sp) of contemporary antigen detection …

… Heartworm disease in dogs is most commonly diagnosed through the detection of … Figure
2 serves as a contemporary depiction of the “baseline” heartworm risk for dogs in the United …

… Society recommends using integrated diagnostic techniques to detect heartworm infections
… (over 100,000 cats tested) provided a contemporary estimate of the prevalence of anti-D. …

… Dirofilaria immitis is a mosquito-borne whilst Angiostrongylus vasorum is a snail-… immitis,
for the control of potentially associated illnesses in humans. However, in Portugal, heartworm …

… of southern Italy based only on the identification of microfilariae, antigen and … of heartworm
disease in both domestic and wild canines. Here, we report first on two cases of heartworm …

… infantum exposure and HW infection prevalence among the study macroareas were detected.
The overall results of the positive tested samples were 28.2% in southern Italy and islands, …

… subcutaneous dirofilariosis caused by Dirofilaria immitis and Dirofilaria repens, respectively,
… immitis infection was detected in a Hungarian Vizsla dog that lived in the eastern part of the …

… Circulating Dirofilaria immitis antigens was detected by use of a commercial antigen enzyme
linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (Demeditec Diagnostics GmbH, Kiel, Germany). …

… heartworm (HW) in dogs are the detection of circulating antigen from adult female Dirofilaria
immitis … HW infection prevalence in contemporaneously collected specimens from dogs and …

… blood samples were obtained to detect microfilariae of Dirofilaria immitis. The western area
of the … disease in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, especially considering the contemporary …