Associate Professor of Parasitology Louisiana State University
Cats with access to the outdoors may be exposed to a variety of lung and intestinal parasites. In contrast with dogs, adult cats may contract roundworm infections continuously throughout their lives. Clinical signs, diagnosis, and treatments for these infections, including both common nematodes such as Toxocara cati and Ancylostoma tubaeforme, but also those infections that are seen occasionally but with sufficient frequency that they deserve mention. These include the tapeworm, Spirometra spp. and the more serious condition of sparganosis, Alaria spp. or intestinal flukes, Paragonimus kellicotti, the lung fluke, and Aelurostongylus abstrusus, the lungworm of cats.
