16K views · 66 reactions | From Dogtor Cat Cabinet Veterinar‎: "3-year-old dog with Dirofilaria immitis, dog heartworm." | I Love Veterinary Medicine | Facebook

50K views · 1.2K reactions | Dirofilaria immitis #dirofilaria #ciencia #biologia #veterinaria #animales #nicosastre | Nico Sastré | Facebook

To find out more about these treatment methods, scientists put adult Dirofilaria immitis worms 🪱into 45 #dogs. They split the dogs into nine groups of five. After 75 days, two groups got doxycycline orally at 5, 7.5, or 10 mg/kg twice a day for 28 days. They also got ivermectin once a month at 6 µg/kg. Three groups didn’t get any treatment. The scientists checked the dogs before treatment💉🔬, and then 30 and 60 days after.🐶🐕 Whether they followed the 30-day wait period recommended by the Ame