title: Vector-Borne Diseases - constant challenge for practicing veterinarians
title: recommendations from the CVBD World Forum
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Baneth, Gad
name: Bourdeau, Patrick
name: Bourdoiseau, Gilles
name: Bowman, Dwight D.
name: Breitschwerdt, Edward
name: Capelli, Gioia
name: Cardoso, Luís
name: Dantas-Torres, Filipe
name: Day, Michael
name: Dedet, Jean-Pierre
name: Dobler, Gerhard
name: Ferrer, Lluís
name: Irwin, Peter
name: Kempf, Volkhard
name: Kohn, Barbara
name: Lappin, Michael
name: Little, Susan
name: Maggi, Ricardo
name: Miró, Guadalupe
name: Naucke, Torsten
name: Oliva, Gaetano
name: Otranto, Domenico
name: Penzhorn, Banie
name: Pfeffer, Martin
name: Roura, Xavier
name: Sainz, Angel
name: Shaw, Susan
name: Shin, SungShik
name: Solano-Gallego, Laia
name: Straubinger, Reinhard
name: Traub, Rebecca
name: Trees, Alexander
name: Truyen, Uwe
name: Demonceau, Thierry
name: Fitzgerald, Ronan
name: Gatti, Diego
name: Hostetler, Joe
name: Kilmer, Bruce
name: Krieger, Klemens
name: Mencke, Norbert
name: Mendão, Cláudio
name: Mottier, Lourdes
name: Pachnicke, Stefan
name: Rees, Bob
name: Siebert, Susanne
name: Stanneck, Dorothee
name: Mingote, Montserrat Tarancón
name: Simson, Cristiano Von
name: Weston, Sarah
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: classificationCode: 530
subject: Physik

description: The human-animal bond has been a fundamental feature of mankind's history for millennia. The first, and strongest of these, man's relationship with the dog, is believed to pre-date even agriculture, going back as far as 30,000 years. It remains at least as powerful today. Fed by the changing nature of the interactions between people and their dogs worldwide and the increasing tendency towards close domesticity, the health of dogs has never played a more important role in family life. Thanks to developments in scientific understanding and diagnostic techniques, as well as changing priorities of pet owners, veterinarians are now able, and indeed expected, to play a fundamental role in the prevention and treatment of canine disease, including canine vector-borne diseases (CVBDs).The CVBDs represent a varied and complex group of diseases, including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonellosis, borreliosis, dirofilariosis, ehrlichiosis, leishmaniosis, rickettsiosis and thelaziosis, with new syndromes being uncovered every year. Many of these diseases can cause serious, even life-threatening clinical conditions in dogs, with a number having zoonotic potential, affecting the human population.Today, CVBDs pose a growing global threat as they continue their spread far from their traditional geographical and temporal restraints as a result of changes in both climatic conditions and pet dog travel patterns, exposing new populations to previously unknown infectious agents and posing unprecedented challenges to veterinarians.In response to this growing threat, the CVBD World Forum, a multidisciplinary group of experts in CVBDs from around the world which meets on an annual basis, gathered in Nice (France) in 2011 to share the latest research on CVBDs and discuss the best approaches to managing these diseases around the world.As a result of these discussions, we, the members of the CVBD Forum have developed the following recommendations to veterinarians for the management of CVBDs.