Дирофиляриоз у кошек: литература
Atkins СЕ, DeFrancesco TD, Miller М, et al: Prevalence of heart- worm infection in cats with signs of cardiorespiratory abnormalities. J Vet Med Assoc 212:517, 1997. A prospective survey of the prevalence ofheartworm infection in North Carolina and Texas cats with cardiorespiratory abnormalities. Prevalence, risk factors, and comparisons of diagnostic tests are provided.
Atkins CE: Veterinary CE Advisor: Heartworm disease: An update. Vet Med (Suppl) 93:12:2,1998a. A comprehensive and very current review of the diagnosis and prevention ofheartworm infection in do& and cats.
Atkins CE, DeFrancesco TD, Coats J, et al: Feline Heartworm Disease: The North Carolina Experience. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the American Heartworm Symposium '98. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1998b. Retrospective analysis of the risk factors, clinical presentation, diagnostic test results, and survival of 50 cats with heartworm infection.
Clark JN, Pulliam JD, Alva R, et al: Safety of orally administered ivermectin in cats. In: Soil MD, ed: Proceedings of the Heartworm Symposium '92. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1992, p 103. Documents the safety of high-dose ivermectin in adult cats.
DeFrancesco TD, Atkins CE, Miller MW, et al: Diagnostic utility of echocardiography in feline heartworm disease. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the American Heartworm Symposium '98. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1998. A review of a number of reports of the efficacy of echocardiography in the diagnosis of feline heartworm infection.
Dillon AR: Feline dirofilariasis. Vet Clin North Am 114:1184, 1984. An overall review of the paihogenesis, risk factors, clinical signs, diagnosis, and treatment of feline heartworm disease.
Dillon AR, Warner AE, Molina RM: Pulmonary parenchymal changes in dogs and cats after experimental transplantation of dead Dirofilaria immitis. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the Heartworm Symposium '95. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1996, p97. Describes electron micrographic and perfusion scan findings in dogs and cats with transplanted heartworms. Cats demonstrated type II cell hyperplasia and activation of pulmonary intravascular macrophages, unlike dogs, possibly explaining intraspecies differences in clinical presentation.
Guerrero J, McCall JW, Dzimianski MT, et al: Prevalence of Dirofilaria immitis infection in cats from the southeastern United States. In: Soil MD, ed: Proceedings of the Heartworm Symposium '92. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1992, p 91. A review of cases of feline heartworm disease seen through the Veterinary Medical Data Base, at Louisiana State University, and in three shelters in the Southeast. Comparisons of feline and canine prevalence, clinical signs, diagnostic efficiency, and feline worm burdens are provided.
Longhoffer SL, Daurio CP, Plue RE, et al: Ivermectin for the prevention of feline heartworm disease: Efficacy and safety. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the Heartworm Symposium '95. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1996, p 177. Describes the use of ivermectin as a heartworm and hookworm preventive in 2,500 cats, worldwide. Demonstrates the safety and efficacy of this drug in cats.
McCall JW, Nonglak S, Ryan W, et al: Utility of ELISA-based antibody test for detection of heartworm infection in cats. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the American Heartworm Symposium '95. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1995, . pp 127-133. A prospective study of the usefulness of antibody and antigen tests in naturally occurring feline heartworm infection.
McCall JW, Guerrero J, Supakomdej P, et al: Evaluation of antigen and antibody tests for detection of heartworm infection in cats. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the American Heartworm Symposium '98. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1998. A prospective study of the usefulness for detecting experimental feline heartworm infection, comparing three antibody tests to each other and to two antigen tests.
McTier TL, Supakomdej N, McCall JW, et al: Evaluation of ELISA-based adult heartworm antigen test kits using well-defined sera from experimentally and naturally infected cats. In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists, Minneapolis, 1993, p 37. (Abstract.) Demonstrates the utility of ELISA antigen tests for the diagnosis of feline heartworm infection with a female worm or worms, but not all-male infections.
Ryan WG, Newcomb KM: Prevalence of feline heartworm disease: A global review. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the Heartworm Symposium '95. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1996a, p 79. Exhaustive review of all reported cases of heartworm infection in cats worldwide.
Ryan WG, Gross SJ, Soil MD: Diagnosis of feline heartworm infection. In: Soil MD, Knight DH, eds: Proceedings of the Heartworm Symposium '95. Batavia, IL: American Heartworm Society, 1996b, p 121. Review of diagnostic tests, their utility and weaknesses, as well as risk factors and clinical signs.
Schafer M, Berry CR: Cardiac and pulmonary artery mensuration in feline heartworm disease. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 36:499, 1995. Comparison of intrathoracic measurements and subjective comparisons between normal and heartworm-infected cats, demonstrating the utility of some measurements for making a diagnosis ofheartworm disease.
Selcer BA, Newell SM, Mansour MS, et al: Radiographic and 2-D echocardiographic findings in eighteen cats experimentally exposed to D. immitis via mosquito bites. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 37:37,1996. Study of echocardiographic findings and serial radiographic changes in experimentally infected cats, showing development and progression or regression of abnormalities of feline heartworm disease.
Stewart VA, Hepler DI, Grieve RB:. Efficacy of milbemycin oxime in chemoprophylaxis of dirofilariasis in cats. Am J Vet Res 53:2274, 1992. Study of the efficacy and safety of milbemycin oxime in 45 cats experimentally exposed to heartworms.
