The Staff's Role: Improving Heartworm Prevention in dogs (Kristen Lyon)
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The Test Your Pet Should Take
Testing, along with prevention, is an important part of keeping our dogs and cats healthy and free of disease. Here are important facts to know about heartworm disease and heartworm testing.
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There Goes the Neighborhood: The Potential Impact of 1 Heartworm Positive Dog (Matthew W. Miller)
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There's No Season for Heartworm
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Thoracic Radiography and Canine Heartworm Disease (Clifford H. Berry)
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Three Models of Care: Expanding Options for Treating Heartworms
Three specialists in shelter medicine explain how they are managing the medical, logistical and financial challenges of treating heartworm infection in patients.
Treatment | Shelters | Veterinary Professionals | Cost | Transport of Infected PetsCategory: Video
Treatment options for heartworm-positive cats
While cats are susceptible to heartworms, unfortunately there are no approved treatments for cats with adult worms. However, as veterinary practitioner and past AHS president Dr. Tom Nelson explains, that doesn't mean veterinarians have no options for managing these patients.
Feline | Prevention | Treatment | Shelters | Veterinary ProfessionalsCategory: Video
UGA research investigates alternative to doxycycline in a heartworm treatment program
Dr. Molly Salvadelis explains the findings of a UGA study comparing doxycycline to minocycline in a heartworm treatment protocol
Canine | Treatment | Veterinary ProfessionalsCategory: Video
Understanding barriers to heartworm research today
In this video, Emeritus Professor and researcher Dr. Tim Geary of the Institute of Parastitology at McGill University explains the barriers to heartworm research and how it differs from research on other parasites in other species.
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Understanding heartworm-host interactions
In this video, Emeritus Professor and researcher Dr. Tim Geary of the Institute of Parastitology at McGill University explains how a better understanding of heartworms and how they interact with their hosts and their environment might help researchers in the future as they develop new strategies for heartworm prevention.
Canine | Feline | Prevention | Life Cycle | Veterinary ProfessionalsCategory: Video
