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Milano – Repelling ectoparasiticides provide best protection against parasite-transmitted infectious diseases. The efficacy of advantix® (10% imidacloprid/50% permethrin) preventing canine leishmaniosis, has been proven in the so far largest GCP-controlled field trial conducted in Veterinary Medicine to prevent dogs from vector-borne diseases. Prof. Dr. Domenico Otranto from the University of Bari, Italy, the leading investigator, stated at a Bayer press conference in Milano: “Through a monthly or biweekly treatment with the repelling anti-parasite agent, that prevents dogs from sand fly bites, we achieved a leishmaniosis protection rate between 89% and 100%.” advantix

Due to its warm climate, the Mediterranean is afflicted with parasite-transmittes infectious diseases (canine vector-borne diseases, CVBD) especially. Apart from sand flies and mosquitoes, ticks have been proven to be the most dangerous transmitters of infectious diseases. Climate change as well as a higher mobility of humans and their dogs have enabled parasites to spread further throughout northern regions advantix.

This accounts for babesiosis for instance, where the causative pathogen Babesia canis infects the erythrocytes of dogs. The disease is transmitted by the Ornate cow tick Dermacentor reticulatus. Originally endemic in e.g. the South of France, the disease, through the spreading of its transmitter, can now be found in almost all of France. Prof. Dr. Patrick Bourdeau, from the National Veterinary School of Nantes in France, and member of the CVBD World Forum, says: “Canine babesiosis is by far the most frequent canine vector-borne disease in France. According to estimation of vet clinics, 150,000 dogs suffer from babesiosis.”




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