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Fighting Resistant Hookworms: Inside the AAVP Task Force's New Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines

Fighting Resistant Hookworms: Inside the AAVP Task Force's New Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines11 aug22 min

Send us Fan Mail Hookworm cases that “just won’t clear” are no longer a weird outlier, and that should change how we practice. We sit down with parasitology expert Dr. Ray Kaplan to unpack the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists (AAVP) Hookworm Task Force recommendations on diagnosing and treating multidrug-resistant canine hookworms, including what clinics can do right now to stop guessing and start confirming. We talk through how this problem came to light, why drug-resista...