… The strength of the present study was the contemporaneous detection of D. immitis antigens
(8.8 %) and A. vasorum L1 (13.2 %) in kennels conducted by a cross-sectional survey at …

… 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 …

… Dirofilaria immitis and Angiostrongylus vasorum are both important potentially fatal canine
… vasorum in commercially available test kits for the detection of D. immitis antigen, the …

… 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. …

… a commercial kit for the detection of circulating antibodies against Anaplasma phagocytophilum,
Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Ehrlichia canis and of Dirofilaria immitis antigen. A …

… 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, …

… heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, occurred year-round in the warmest parts of the United States
and that heartworm … Contemporary techniques for detection of vector-borne pathogens use …