taxonID	type	description	language	source
03848795FF8CCC3F8F40FB2E69B0FA05.taxon	description	Te prevalence of heartworm in domestic dogs by island was as follows: Isabela 2.4 %, Floreana 0 %, Santa Cruz 0 %, and San Cristóbal 3.3 % (Figs. 2 and 3). Te sample analysis revealed that 19 of the examined dogs tested positive (1.6 %) using mPCR. Out of these, 14 dogs also showed positive results (1.2 %) when their cox 1 gene sequences were analyzed. Tese sequences were found to be 97 – 100 % similar to different sequences of D. immitis in the GenBank sequence database. Furthermore, we confirmed the presence of this species by amplifying and analyzing the 5.8 S-ITS 2 - 28 S rDNA gene fragment. Te cox 1 gene filarial nematodes test showed greater sensitivity than the Knott’s test, while the Knott’s test showed greater specificity than the cox 1 gene filarial nematodes test (Table 3). However, when applying a GLM, no significant relationship was found between variables examined and positivity. Te influence of the variables housing, island, and sex could not be related to the presence of D. immitis (Supplementary File 4).	en	Culda, Carla Andreea, Tejena Rodriguez, Nathalie G., Puleo, Fortunato, Polit Sosa, Rafael M., Panait, Luciana Cătălina, Cazan, Cristina Daniela, Deak, Georgiana, Leon, Renato, Vinueza, Rommel Lenin, Páez-Rosas, Diego, Mihalca, Andrei Daniel (2024): Canine vector-borne parasites in the Galapagos. Parasites & Vectors (515) 17 (1): 1-12, DOI: 10.1186/s13071-024-06592-z, URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06592-z
