… Heartworm infection with D. immitis has also been recently diagnosed in a young male
brown bear. The animal died due to severe injuries after a vehicle collision in northern Greece. …

… Dirofilaria immitis is a filarial roundworm of considerable veterinary importance as the … of
heartworm disease in domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and cats (Felis silvestris catus). …

… Dirofilaria immitis infection (heartworm disease) is one of the most severe parasitic
diseases of dogs. Prevention is achieved bythe administration of drugs containing macrocyclic …

… and haemotropic mycoplasmas with conventional PCR and real-time PCR and for
Dirofilaria immitis with antigen ELISA. Additionally blood smear microscopy was carried out for …

… Dirofilaria immitis, the causative agent of heartworm disease [13]. Other helminths, for
instance, hookworms [14], trematodes [15], and cestodes, [13,16,17,18] have also been reported …

Respiratory capillariosis is a widely distributed zoonotic parasitic disease caused by the
nematode Capillaria aerophila (Trichocephalida, Trichuridae) that commonly infects wild …

… Dirofilaria immitis antibody and antigen … In a recent study evaluating the efficacy of serologic
tests for the detection of heartworm, Ag tests detected 79–86% of heartworm infections and …

… phagocytophilum was identified in a European wildcat (Felis silvestris) and its tick, a
European pine marten (Martes martes) and a Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris). All PCR-…

… Therefore, epidemiological research on parasitic infections of wild felids in Germany, such
as the Eurasian lynx and the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris), is important for two …

… and bronchioles of wild felids (eg Felis silvestris silvestris), has recently attracted scientific
… -pulmonary and intestinal nematodes for prevention (Dirofilaria immitis) and/or treatment (…