Parasitology

Bust common myths and protect patients.

Don't just tell clients about the threat-show them.

Keep veterinary clients (and their pets, of course!) safe from ticks and tick-borne diseases with these educational handouts.

Your veterinary team provides the first line of defense when it comes to giving pet owners information about tick-borne diseases.

Tacaribe virus hasn't been isolated since the late 1950s in Trinidadian bats.

Veterinary parasitology organization identifies need for more answers, solicits research proposals.

In this roundtable, experts in veterinary behavior, infectious disease, and feline practice came together to discuss way to improve preventive care of feline patients, including a discussion of the importance of effective parasite control and the use of flea and tick collars for cats.

About 1 in 5 veterinary practices track the positive parasite cases for their county. Here are some of the reasons veterinary technicians reported their practices dont track parasitic disease cases.

CAPC study reveals that 90 percent of pet owners want to be alerted to high incidence of parasites in their area.

New research from CAPC compares veterinarians' and pet owners' concerns about various parasites.

Heartworm product, part of Novartis acquisition, has been unavailable since 2011.

Responses defend veterinarians', industry's motivations and sense of ethical propriety.

High elevation doesn't mean low tick risk.

Veterinary medicine could benefit from studies on Ehrlichia chaffeensis.

This "underhanded" pest is a threat.

Deal comes as Eli Lilly tries to buy Novartis Animal Health, which markets the veterinary parasiticides.

Thorough testing helps keep more pets protected from heartworm disease.

From Alaska to Florida, the brown dog tick is a pest for all seasons.

Is your veterinary team's nose out of joint over the aroma of your waiting fecal samples? Here's help.

Moose are easy targets, but winter ticks aren't discriminatingthousands of ticks can clump on a single branch waiting for host.

Think that because summer is over you can stop worrying about ticks? Dr. Mike Dryden explains when and where you should be looking for Western blacklegged ticks.

You may never have considered that tick genera have personalities but Dr. Susan Little has. She may not have given them a Rorschach's inkblot test, but she does give us some insight into their personalities, which also gives us insight into what to expect in an infestation.

Dr. Karen Snowden discusses the clinical signs and diagnosis related to an often-overlooked and hard-to-find trematode parasite, Heterobilharzia americana.

Ask clients the right questions and you'll get more chances to educate.

The National Center for Veterinary Parasitology and Companion Animal Parasite Council address emerging needs in understanding and managing heartworms and other complex parasites.

You might need to look past the standard fecal flotation to diagnose these not-so-common parasites.

Parasitology group updates recommendations based on frequency of false negative antigen results.

The CAPC Parasite Forecast Maps track millions of data points and factors such as temperature, elevations, precipitation, and population density to predict the risk of vector-borne diseases. This update on Lyme give you the key findings.

The CAPC forecast maps show that heartworm continues to be a serious risk to U.S. dogs and cats