Dog/cat parasites

Dog/cat parasites

1. Fleas

   • Ctenocephalides
     • canis
     • felis
   • Control
     • Environmental
       • spray
       • Hoover
     • animal
       • Fipronil
       • Imidacloprid
       • Flualaner
       • Afoxalaner

2. Lice

   • Trichodectes canis
     • biting
     • pruritic
       • alopecia
     • head, neck tail
     • tapeworm vector
   • Felicola subrostrata
     • tapeworm vector
     • face, back, pinna
   • Linognathus stetosus
     • sucking
   • Control
     • Fipronil
     • Methoprene
     • Amitraz
     • Permethrin
     • Moxidectin
     • Fluralaner
     • Imidacloprid

3. Mites

   • Notoedres
     • burrowing
     • cats: face + head
     • selamectin
   • Demodex
     • burrowing
     • scaling and alopecia
     • Amitraz
     • Imidacloprid
     • Moxidectin
   • Sarcoptes
     • mange
     • burrowing
     • selamectin
     • Amitraz
   • Otodectes
     • non-burrowing
     • ear mite
     • control
       • Imidacloprid
       • Selamectin
       • Permethrin
   • Trombicula
   • Cheyletiella
     • non-burrowing
     • dorsal rump and shoulders
     • Ivermectin
     • fipronil

4. Ticks

   • Ixodes ricinus
     • transmit Lyme's disease
   • Ixodes hexagonus
     • "hedgehog tick"
   • Dermacentor reticulatus
     • transmit babesia
     • "ornate dog tick", "meadow tick"
   • Rhipicephalus sanguineus
     • transmit babesia and ehrlichia
     • "brown dog tick"
   • Control
     • Flumethrin
     • Fipronil
     • Fluralaner
     • Afoxalaner
     • Indoxocarb
     • Permethrin
     • Imidacloprid

5. Flies (tropic but emerging)

   • Mosquitos
     • transmit heart worm
   • Sandflies
     • transmit Leishmania
   • Fruit flies
     • transmit Thelazia (eye worm)

6. Nematodes (roundworms)

   • Ascarids
     • Toxocara canis
       • ZOONOTIC
       • small alae (wings)
       • transplacental and transmammary transmission
       • dog
     • Toxocara cati
       • cat
       • large alae (wings)
       • transmammary transmission
     • Toxascaris leonina
       • cat and dog
       • small alae
     • PPP = 6w in adults, 3w in puppies
     • L2 infective stage
     • BZ and ML
       • daily from 42d gestation
       • 2w, 4w, 6w, 3m, 6m then q3-6m
   • Lungworm
     • Angiostrongylus vasorum
       • dogs
       • ML or FBZ
       • PPP = 5-8w
       • pulmonary a. and r. vent.
     • Crenosoma vulpis
       • dogs
       • ML
       • trachea, bronchi, bronchioles
     • Oslerus osleri
       • dogs
       • PPP = 10-18w
       • L1 inf. stage
       • trachea
     • Aelurostrongylus abstrusus
       • cats
       • FBZ or Emodepside (Profender)
   • Filaria
     • Dirofilaria immitis ("heartworm")
       • mosquito transmission
       • pulmonary a. and r. vent.
       • cough, exercise intolerance, dyspnoea
       • microfilariae
     • Dirofilaria repens
     • MLs - prevent larval development
       • Melarsomine - microfilaricide

7. Tapeworms

   • Taenia spp.
     • T. taeniformis (cat)
     • sheep IH
       • T. ovis
       • T. hydatigena
       • T. multiceps
     • rabbit IH
       • T. pisiformis
       • T. serialis
   • Echinococcus spp.
     • E. granulosus
       • sheep IH - E. granulosus granulosus
       • horse IH - E. granulosus equinus
     • E. multilocularis
       • rodent IH
       • abroad
     • ZOONOTIC
   • Dipylidium caninum
     • PPP = 4-6w
     • small intestine
     • transmitted in fleas
   • Praziquantel

8. protozoa

   • Neospora caninum
     • hindlimb paresis in puppies
     • CNS disturbances in older dogs
     • clindamycin
     • oocysts
   • Isospora spp.
     • d+ in puppies and kittens
     • sulphonamides
     • oocysts
   • Sarcocystis spp.
     • oocysts
   • Giardia
     • small intestine
     • trophozoite and resistant cyst
     • greasy d+
     • erode mucosa and villi
   • Tritrichomonas foetus
     • Not UK
     • abortion in cows
     • d+ and colitis in cats
   • Toxoplasma gondii
     • asymptomatic in cats
     • IH = sheep = abortion
   • Babesia
     • Tick vector
     • anaemia
     • Giemsa stain
     • Imidocarb and tick control
   • Leishmania
     • Sandfly vector
     • alopecia, emaciation, exfoliative dermatitis, excess nail growth
     • Allopurinol

9. Hookworm

   • Uncinaria stenocephala
     • PPP = 15d
     • L3 infective stage
     • protein losing enteropathy, d+
     • small intestine
   • Ancylostoma caninum
     • dormant in tissue until pregnancy
       • transmammary transmission
     • through lymphatics then blood to lungs
     • anaemia
   • ML and BZ

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