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Pets, people, and pathogens: Emerging diseases
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Cathy Lund, DVM
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Dr. Cathy Lund discusses how building bridges between the two fields will help to strengthen primary care for both animals and humans.
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Just Ask the Expert: Feline heartworm disease
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Michael Paul, DVM
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CAPC executive director Dr. Michael Paul addresses questions about heartworm disease in cats.
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ClinQuiz: Tick particulars
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Susan E. Little, DVM, PhD, DEVPC
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Test your knowledge of ticks and tick-borne diseases with this short quiz.
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Hot Literature: Flea and tick control is changing. Are you?
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Avi Blake, DVM
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In an article recently published in Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, Drs. Byron Blagburn and Michael Dryden provide a comprehensive overview of flea and tick biology, treatment, and control.
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Bartonellosis: An emerging and potentially hidden epidemic?
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Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM, DACVIM
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Of all known organisms, 61% are zoonotic, and of the emerging pathogens, the vast majority are zoonotic organisms.
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An MD and DVM Q&A with Dr. Breitschwerdt
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Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM, DACVIM
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Dr. Edward Breitschwerdt provides insight into his bartonellosis research.
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Understanding viral zoonoses: H1N1 influenza
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Steven Opal, MD
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Influenza is a zoonotic infection that holds especially high interest of late, although it has been a subject of great fascination for microbiologists for a long time.
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An MD and DVM Q&A with Dr. Opal
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Steven Opal, MD
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Dr. Steven Opal answers your questions about the flu and kids, cats, and more
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Leading Off: Guidelines make managing canine heart disease more clear-cut
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Bruce W. Keene, DVM, MSc, DACVIM
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These guidelines provide a framework for veterinarians to think about diagnostic strategies to screen for the presence of valvular disease.
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Hot Literature: New guidelines for diagnosing and treating chronic valvular heart disease in dogs
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Avi Blake, DVM
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To more objectively categorize patients and to complement the current classification system, the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Specialty of Cardiology consensus panel has developed a set of guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of CVHD.
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Clinical Exposures: Palpebral reconstruction after entropion surgery in a dog
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Juliet R. Gionfriddo, DVM, MS, DACVO
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Julie Yeager, DVM
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A 9-year-old 46.2-lb (21-kg) spayed female mixed-breed dog was presented to the ophthalmology service at Colorado State University for evaluation of incisional infection and delayed healing after bilateral entropion surgery.
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Idea Exchange: A cheap and easy way to collect urine
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We use the caps from syringe casings as a false litter for cats that we need to collect urine from.
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Idea Exchange: Two tips for drawing blood
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When performing tests that require three drops of blood (heartworm or FeLV/FIV tests), we use a standard U-100 insulin syringe to draw 15 units of blood, the equivalent of three drops.
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Idea Exchange: Use plastic bags to keep microchip scanners congestion-free
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To protect our microchip scanners from contagions, we cover the scanners with laboratory sample bags or zippered quart-size plastic bags before scanning our patients.
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Idea Exchange: Local anesthetic blocks: one clinic's protocol
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For our local anesthetic blocks, we use a combination of lidocaine (quick onset, short duration) and bupivacaine (slow onset, long duration) with or without buprenorphine (acts at peripheral opioid receptors).
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Mind Over Miller: A tribute to an old dog
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Robert M. Miller, DVM
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My neighbor's old dog is an inspiration.
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Correction: Canine and feline pemphigus foliaceus
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A triamcinolone dosage is corrected.
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