Why are gastrointestinal parasites on the rise in fecal testing?
Investigating the causes behind the apparent increase in gastrointestinal parasites and what clinicians can do about it
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This episode of The Vet Blast Podcast tackles the rise of detection of gastrointestinal parasites in fecal testing. Guest Cathy Meeks, MS, DVM, DACVIM, talks about how medication resistance and better diagnostics both factor into this trend.
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Cathy Meeks, MS, DVM, DACVIM: These parasites are ever evolving. So they're creating resistance to what we commonly would treat with. And so that's making them more hardy, either that's making them last longer and live longer. So I do think that there's a quite a bit of reasons why we're seeing an increase in parasites, but unfortunately, the resistance to the dewormers is playing a big role in that as well.
