1. Preventing Lyme disease is all about preventing tick bite and attachment.
2. Where dogs go…so too go their people. Don’t forget to speak to dog-owners about risks, particularly in dogs that become seropositive on testing.
3. Doxycycline works quickly in clinical Lyme disease dogs…if a dog isn’t responding, consider a co-infection or another cause of the clinical signs.
Dr. Evason is a small animal internal medicine faculty member at the Atlantic Veterinary College in PEI, and also works as an independent medical and nutrition consultant through her business: Michelle Evason Veterinary Internal Medicine and Nutrition Consultations. She has worked in general practice, specialty clinical practice at large private referral centres, in academia as clinical faculty, and in the animal health and pet food industry. Her clinical and research interests focus on the role of 'anything and everything’ that aids increased veterinary (and pet-owner) awareness and understanding of various clinical disorders, with a slightly more specific focus on infectious disease, nutrition and pet-owner and veterinary perceptions regarding health and disease
