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Record W4412980628 · doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2025.110568

Effects of doxycycline on prepatent and patent infections of Brugia pahangi in dogs and observations on the growth and survival of L3 in jirds and dogs

2025· article· en· W4412980628 on OpenAlexaff
John W. McCall, Laura Kramer, C. Genchi, Jorge Guerrero, Michael T. Dzimianski, Abdelmoneim Mansour, Scott McCall, Ben Carson, Christopher C. Evans

Bibliographic record

VenueVeterinary Parasitology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicParasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
Canadian institutionsTellabs (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiologyDoxycyclineBrugia pahangiHelminthsImmunologyMicrobiologyAntibiotics

Abstract

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The effects of doxycycyline administered orally at 10 mg/kg twice daily for 30-day periods in 20 Beagles with SC-induced infections of Brugia pahangi and the effects of treatment on in vivo development of L3 fed on blood from these dogs was studied. Doxycycline was administered on Days 0-29, 40-69 or 65-94, with an untreated control. No worms were recovered from dogs treated on Days 0-29, while all dogs treated on Days 40-69 and 65-94 had some live, stunted worms at necropsy on 218-22 days PI. All control dogs had normal worms. Mosquitoes were fed blood from dogs to assess the ability of L3 to develop in jirds and dogs. L3 from treated and untreated groups were injected IP into jirds. Worm recovery for the treated group at Day 35 PI was somewhat lower than for controls, while recovery for the treated group at Day 60 PI was significantly lower. When L3 from treated and control groups were injected SC into dogs, none of the dogs in the treated group had Mf or live adult worms at necropsy on Day 88 PI, while all control dogs were microfilaremic and had live worms. In conclusion, doxycycline treatment of dogs infected with B. pahangi killed all developing larvae, most immature adults, and some mature adults and disrupted embryogenesis. L 3 from mosquitoes fed on dogs treated with doxycycline were unable to complete development when injected into dogs, and IP inoculation into jirds revealed short-term growth, stunting and gradual reduction in survival of the worms.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.355
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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