Veterinary Medicine - August 2008 - (Page 422a) No longer confined to the southeast portion of the United States, canine heartworm infection has spread across the nation— notably increasing its distribution and prevalence throughout the western states during the last two decades. Update on canine heartworm infection in the West Evidence that heartworm infection has been locally acquired in all 50 states1 is encouraging more western practitioners to test annually for dangerous and potentially deadly heartworm infection. While western prevalence remains low in comparison with the southeast, the rate at which ambient risk for canine heartworm transmission—especially autochthonous (locally acquired) transmission— has increased and is causing some western practitioners to re-evaluate their testing and preventive protocols (see Figure 1, page 3).2,3 Determining prevalence Determining the risk for and the prevalence of heartworm infection in an area proves difficult because factors such as Sponsored by
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