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2. Toxocara cati - Wikipedia

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   Toxocara cati, also known as the feline roundworm, is a parasite of cats and other felids. It is one of the most common nematodes of cats, infecting both wild and domestic felids worldwide. Adult worms are localised in the gut of the host. In adult cats, the infection – which is called toxocariasis – is usually asymptomatic. However ...

3. Cat worm infections - Wikipedia

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   Treatment of worm infections is mostly limited to cats kept in human care. Most infections are rather harmless for cats, since a pathogen-host balance is established when the immune system is intact. However, because some of them can cause health disorders and some also pose a potential danger to humans, regular deworming for cats in the human ...

4. Toxocariasis - Wikipedia

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   Toxocariasis is an illness of humans caused by the dog roundworm (Toxocara canis) and, less frequently, the cat roundworm (Toxocara cati). [1] These are the most common intestinal roundworms of dogs, coyotes, wolves and foxes and domestic cats, respectively. [2] Humans are among the many "accidental" or paratenic hosts of these roundworms. [3]

5. Praziquantel - Wikipedia

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   In dogs and cats, whose gastrointestinal tracts are infected with the tapeworms Dipylidium caninum or Taenia taeniaeformis, respectively; [11] [12] praziquantel is also often used in fixed combination with pyrantel embonate against the roundworms : Toxocara cati and Toxascaris leonina.

6. Ascariasis - Wikipedia

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   It prevents migration when treatment is accomplished with weak drugs such as thiabendazole. If used by itself, it causes the worm to be passed out in the feces and may be used when worms have caused blockage of the intestine or the biliary duct. [citation needed] Corticosteroids can treat some of the symptoms, such as inflammation. [citation ...

7. Rare ‘raccoon roundworm’ brain-infecting parasite found in ...

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   Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced that two human cases of Baylisascaris procyonis – a parasite that can infect the brain, spinal cord, and eyes – had been found in the ...

8. Lentigo in Cats: Symptoms, Causes, & Treatments - AOL

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   Lentigo in cats is a common dermatological condition characterized by the presence of small, flat, brownish spots on the skin — particularly around the lips, nose, and eyelid margins. Unlike in ...

9. Deworming - Wikipedia

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   Drenching Merino hoggets, Walcha, NSW U.S. soldiers treating animals with de-worming medication in Eswatini during VETCAP. Deworming (sometimes known as worming, drenching or dehelmintization) is the giving of an anthelmintic drug (a wormer, dewormer, or drench) to a human or animals to rid them of helminths parasites, such as roundworm, flukes and tapeworm.