| notes on sugar feeding and selected wild mammalian hosts of black flies (diptera: simuliidae) in newfoundland. | this study, done on the avalon peninsula, newfoundland, identified selected wild mammalian hosts and quantified the incidence of sugar feeding for several species (species complexes) of black flies. female flies were taken from fox, snowshoe hare, lynx, caribou, and human baits. simulium truncatum/venustum complex females took blood from fox, lynx, rabbit, and caribou and were frequently taken in sweep net collections around humans. blood-fed females of the simulium rostratum/verecundum complex ... | 1994 | 7932603 |
| serologic detection of angiostrongylus vasorum infection in dogs. | angiostrongylus vasorum, french heartworm, is a metastrongylid nematode infecting the pulmonary arteries and right heart of wild and domestic canids in various regions of the world. infection in dogs can result in fatal cardiopulmonary disease. a single endemic focus of a. vasorum in north america occurs in the southeastern portion of newfoundland, canada. dogs are currently diagnosed by detection of first-stage larvae shed in feces using the baermann technique or fecal flotation. however, these ... | 2008 | 17981397 |