Georgi J R, Georgi M E, Fahnestock G R, Theodorides V J
Am J Vet Res. 1979 Jun;40(6):829-31.
Transmission of Filaroides hirthi among cagemate pups was demonstrated to occur through the ingestion of first-stage larvae in recently passed feces. It was suggested that coprophagia is the principal mechanism of transmission of F hirthi and that transmission from brood bitches to their litters occurs by this mechanism during and after the fourth or fifth week of the nursing period. Medication of 15 infected brood bitches with two courses of albendazole at a dosage rate of 50 mg/kg of body weight twice each day for 5 days resulted in complete absence of F hirthi infection among all 21 of their progeny, whereas 16 of 19 progeny (84%) from 14 nontreated infected dams harbored F hirthi worms.
已证实赫氏丝虫（Filaroides hirthi）在同笼幼崽之间的传播是通过摄入近期排出粪便中的一期幼虫而发生的。有人提出，食粪癖是赫氏丝虫传播的主要机制，并且在哺乳期第四或第五周及之后，母犬会通过这种机制将其传播给幼崽。对15只感染的母犬以50毫克/千克体重的剂量每日两次、连续5天给予两个疗程的阿苯达唑进行治疗，结果其所有21只后代均完全没有感染赫氏丝虫，而来自14只未治疗的感染母犬的19只后代中有16只（84%）携带了赫氏丝虫。
