| treatment and prevention of natural heartworm (dirofilaria immitis) infections in red pandas (ailurus fulgens) with selamectin and ivermectin. | ten of the 48 red pandas in the chengdu research base of giant panda breeding, sichuan province, china, died in 2006 after prolonged periods of depression, weight loss, and mucocutaneous membrane xanthochromia. during postmortem examination, live heartworms were found in the right cardiac ventricles and pulmonary arteries of all 10 animals. selamectin and ivermectin were used for clinical prophylaxis in the remaining red pandas between december 2006 and november 2010. we observed a gradual decre ... | 2012 | 22306025 |