SaberVet Canine Heartworm Antigen Rapid Test

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Canine Heartworm Disease, also known as Canine Evil Filariasis, is a human-canine disease. Canine heartworm disease is a blood parasite transmitted by mosquito bites and can infect dogs of all ages. 1.Clinical symptoms After infection, the main symptoms are circulatory disorders, respiratory difficulties and anemia.

Initial symptoms are mild, occasional chronic cough, coughing intensifies when exercising, easy to fatigue, gradual weight loss. If not detected and treated in time, sick dogs have hyperpalpitations, weak and intermittent pulse, intracardiac murmur, hepatomegaly, and pain on palpation.

Thoracic and abdominal fluid accumulation, generalized swelling, respiratory distress. In severe cases, pulmonogenic heart disease was very obvious. Secondary nephritis, cystitis and hematuria. Often there is vomiting, paralysis of the limbs, pleural effusion and ascites, and finally death from failure and pernicious anemia.

2.Transmission Canine heartworm disease is mainly transmitted through mosquito bites. After mosquitoes suck the blood of dogs infected with heartworm larvae, the larvae develop into infective juvenile filarial worms in the mosquitoes, and then spread by biting other dogs or humans again.

3.Clinical Diagnosis of Dog Heartworm test The disease is often misdiagnosed as bronchitis or common heart disease. Judgment should be made carefully based on history investigation and observation of clinical symptoms, and the final diagnosis of Heartworm test can be determined by examination of blood for filarial larvae.