| mortality associated with melarsomine dihydrochloride administration in two north american river otters (lontra canadensis) and a red panda (ailurus fulgens fulgens). | two adult north american river otters (lontra canadensis) and an adult red panda (ailurus fulgens fulgens) at three separate institutions died within 22 hr after receiving single 2.5- to 2.7-mg/kg doses of melarsomine dihydrochloride administered in the epaxial musculature as a treatment for filarid nematodes. one otter had a suspected dirofilaria immitis infection, the other had a confirmed d. lutrae infection, and the red panda had a confirmed dirofilaria sp. infection, presumably with d. immi ... | 2002 | 12462491 |