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ArticleThe Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne2015

Parasite control in Canadian companion animal shelters and a cost-comparison of anthelmintics.

Janna M Schurer, Christina McKenzie, Patricia M Dowling, Emilie Bouchard, Emily J Jenkins

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Article in The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Safeguarding Canadian pets and humans: A call to strengthen regulations for importing companion animals.Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Janna M SchurerDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology (Schurer, McKenzie, Bouchard, Jenkins), Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences (Dowling), University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Christina McKenzieDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology (Schurer, McKenzie, Bouchard, Jenkins), Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences (Dowling), University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Patricia M DowlingDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology (Schurer, McKenzie, Bouchard, Jenkins), Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences (Dowling), University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Emilie BouchardDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology (Schurer, McKenzie, Bouchard, Jenkins), Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences (Dowling), University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Emily J JenkinsDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology (Schurer, McKenzie, Bouchard, Jenkins), Department of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences (Dowling), University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
University of Saskatchewan · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal shelters have limited resources and must accommodate large numbers of animals at unpredictable intake rates. These dogs and cats are often parasitized, which can adversely affect the health of animals and expose shelter workers and adoptive owners to zoonoses. We analyzed survey responses from rural (n = 32) and urban (n = 50) companion animal shelters across Canada, and compared the wholesale cost of commercially available anthelmintics to identify cost-effective methods of managing parasites within shelters. Almost all shelters employed nematocides (98% to 99%), but cestocides and ectoparasiticides were used less frequently. Shelters identified cost as an important consideration in choosing to perform fecal diagnostic testing and administer anthelmintics, and this motivated many shelters to selectively perform testing (66%) or never to test (32%), and to use drugs extralabel (80%).

Indexed as

Housing, AnimalAnimalsAntiparasitic AgentsCanadaCat DiseasesCatsData CollectionDog DiseasesDogsParasitic Diseases, AnimalSurveys and QuestionnairesAntiparasitic Agents

Identifiers

PMID26345387
PMCPMC4535514
OpenAlexW1434039019

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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