Parasitology

Although the level of invasion is down drastically compared with the past, we've yet to conquer this tiny foe. Once more unto the breach, troops!

Proudly display this poster to prompt your veterinary clients to ask about the array of flea preventives you offer.

Are your veterinary clients not buying flea preventives to protect their pets? You don't have to buy their excuses.

Take a page out of this veterinary clinics book and let your lobby do the talking when it comes to flea control.

Product failures with new topical and oral flea treatments are probably caused by failure to use the products correctly rather than product resistance, according to a recent review article.

Even areas with fewer mosquitos can be hotbeds of heartworm infection.

It happens. It happens a lot. Here are your best practices when a lapse in heartworm preventive delivery occurs.

Dispel veterinary clients misconceptions about parasites with this knowledge.

Ticks, man. There are more of them, theyre responsible for more diseases, and theyre now found in more places than ever. Question is, why? And what does Bambi have to do with it? Dr. Michael Dryden (a.k.a. Dr. Flea) talks ticks.

Help dogs (and their owners!) survive confinement during treatment for heartworm disease.

Forgetting that monthly preventive-it's so easy to do, even for veterinarians and their own pets (you know you've forgotten a time or two!). Here's why and how to not let clients skip a dose again.

Do your clients realize that they are sitting ducks for ticks, just like their pets? You and your team better tell emwho else will?

Lungworms low on your list in a cat with respiratory signs? This article says you may want to raise your alert level.

Study shows value in targeting vector to prevent transmission, infection; Vectra 3D manufacturer urges change in protocol.

New drug in isoxazoline class lasts 35 days without drop in efficacy, company reports.

Help veterinary clients understand how one flea turns into thousands.

Lyme disease is among the most frequently diagnosed, zoonotic, tick-borne diseases worldwide and continues to receive intense attention in small animal medicine since canine disease was first reported in the early 1980s.

Get in tick-talk shape.

Appeal to veterinary clients' hearts and wallets with this client handout.

Naturally clients have questions about the essential products they use for their own healthcare. Use this script to talk about natural products.

When pet owners launch a Lyme disease discussion, can you tick off the main points? Heres help to keep these client conversations ticking along.

Veterinary parasitologist Dr. Richard Gerhold gives the low-down on these burrowing bloodsuckers.

Dont be the lone star in your practice who can talk about ticks. Be a deer, er dear, and practice this sample tick talk with your veterinary team to bridge the gulf in otherwise rocky tick conversations with clients.

If you're tired of fleas, just imagine how your poor creeped-out veterinary clients feel facing the devil's jumping beans. One more time, doctors, with gusto: Let's go get those blood suckers!

Grr. Argh. Dont fear this life-saving talk with veterinary clients.