Hooks
Absence of red blood cells in pups (caused by hookworms and/or fleas)
Anemia
Intermediate host
Flea
Intermediate host
Mosquito
Sentinel
heart worm prevention
How to diagnose intestinal parasites?
Fecal exam
Infection through the mouth
Oral route
Appearance of egg sacks in stool
Rice appearance
Time it takes to get mature heart worms in the heart from the time of the mosquito bite
6 months
Panacur
hookworms, roundworms, whipworms
Hookworms may go through skin and footpads. True or false.
True
Infection through the placenta
In Utero
Zoonotic?
No
Heartworm test can detect these.
Adult females
Immiticide
Kills adult heart worms
In utero, oral, through the skin, and __________are ways that hookworms may be transmitted.
Through the mother's milk
Zoonotic condition caused by hookworms
Ground itch or visceral larval migrans
Blood-sucking?
No
Baby heartworms
microfilaria
Trifexis
heartworm prevention
Injection that prevents heart worms for 6 mos.
ProHeart
Genus and species
Ancylostoma caninum
Genus
Taenia
Genus and species
Dirofilaria immitis
blood transfusion
Genus of coccidia
Isospora or Eimeria