INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue: 2

Therapeutic Management of Feline Otoacariasis in Persian Cats

  • Author:
  • Arjun Kasondra, Chopel G. Lachungpa, B. Nagarajan
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 316 to 317

Department Veterinary Clinical Medicine, Ethics and Jurisprudence, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (TANUVAS), Vepery, Chennai-600007, Hebbal

*Ph. D. Scholar and Corresponding author: E-mail: arjunkasondra2009@gmail.com

Online published on 26 July, 2017.

Abstract

Seven Persian cats were presented with history of scratching around ear, hair loss and excessive coffee colour waxy exudate. Ear swabs examined under microscope revealed numbers of ear mites and their eggs. The cats were treated with Fipronil spray weekly remarkable once in ear canal up to four weeks. No mites were detected at 4th week of therapy. Aural application of Fipronil spray has efficacy against ear mites.

Keywords

Fipronil, Otodectes cynotis, persian cat