Maureen’s going to give me grief over the length of this post, but the use of antivirals in cats is important topic with a lot of issues to consider, so let’s dig into it once again.
Access to effective antivirals to treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), particularly GS-441524 (a relative of the anti-COVID-19 drug
Last week, I wrote about the use of oseltamivir in dogs and cats infected with H5N1 influenza. We have to be aware of the risk of drug resistance risks whenever we use anti-infectives, especially when the same drugs (like osteltamivir) are used in people, and assess the risks and benefits in order to “
We don’t talk a lot about antiviral resistance in animals, particularly compared to antibacterial resistance, primarily because we don’t use antivirals a lot in animals – but we do use some.
When we use any anti-infective medication, we have to think about the risks of resistance developing to that medication, and how we can try
Earlier this year, our ability to treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) in Canada was revolutionized through legal access to imported GS-441524. I don’t use “revolutionized” lightly. This drug has changed FIP from an almost invariably fatal disease to one with a 90+% cure rate in cats.
People have (illegally) imported black market versions of
Warning: long post. TL;DR? We can drop the antiviral treatment duration for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) to 42 days in many situations.
In veterinary medicine, a lot of our recommended durations for treatment for different diseases have little scientific backing. We “inherited” a lot of these treatment regimens from the days when the drugs
The UK’s FIP Advice Team has released new antiviral drug treatment guidelines for feline infectious peritonitis (FIP).
A major change is introduction of twice daily dosing of oral GS-441524, based on the observation that inter-cat variations in drug absorption and metabolism might account for some of the treatment failures that are seen with once daily
Now that Canadian veterinarians can legally import antiviral drugs for treatment of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), there’s no (good) reason for people in Canada to be sourcing these drugs on the black market. However, there are still many countries (e.g. the US) where it’s still tough or impossible to get these drugs legally, so
Great news for Canadian veterinarians, cat owners and cats: We now have legal access to drugs that can treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP), a disease that’s historically been considered almost invariably fatal in cats, prior to the discovery of these very treatments.
I’ll keep this short (-ish… since Moe keeps complaining about my long posts).
