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Michael R. Lappin
Professor
Small Animal Medicine
Michael R. Lappin, DVM, PhD
After graduating from Oklahoma State University in 1981, Dr. Lappin
completed a rotating internship in small animal medicine and surgery
at the University of Georgia. After 2 years in a small animal practice
in Los Angeles, he returned to the University of Georgia where he
completed a small animal internal medicine residency and a PhD in
Parasitology. Dr. Lappin was board-certified by the American College
of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1987. He is currently Professor
of Small Animal Internal Medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University. Dr. Lappin studies
feline infectious and immune-mediated diseases and has written many
primary research manuscripts and book chapters. His principal areas
of interest are prevention of infectious diseases, vaccine associated
side effects, the upper respiratory disease complex, infectious causes
of fever, infectious causes of diarrhea, and zoonoses of cats. Dr.
Lappin on the editorial board of Feline Medicine and Surgery and Compendium
for Continuing Education for the Practicing Veterinarian and is the
editor of the textbook, Feline Internal Medicine Secrets. Dr. Lappin
has received the Beecham Research Award and the Norden Distinguished
Teaching Award. Dr. Lappin is the Kenneth W. Smith Professor in Small
Animal Clinical Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University and
is currently the Assistant Department Head for Research. He was the
chairperson of the AAFP Panel on Feline Zoonoses and the AAFP Bartonella
Panel Report. Dr. Lappin is the director of the “Center for
Companion Animal Studies.”
Recent publications:
Scorza AV, Radecki SV, Lappin MR. Efficacy of a combination of febantel,
pyrantel, and praziquantel for the treatment of feline giardiasis.
J Fel Med Surg 2006;8:7-13.
Lappin MR, Griffin B, Brunt J, Riley A, Burney D, Hawley J, Brewer
MM, Jensen WA. Prevalence of Bartonella spp., Mycoplasma spp., Ehrlichia
spp., and Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA in the blood of cats and their
fleas in the United States. Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery
2006;8:85-90.
Woods JE, Wisnewski N, Lappin MR. Attempted transmission of ‘Candidatus
Mycoplasma haemominutum’ and Mycoplasma haemofelis by feeding
cats infected Ctenocephalides felis. Am J Vet Res 2006:67;494-497.
Littman MP, Goldstein RE, Labato MA, Lappin MR, Moore GE. ACVIM small
animal consensus statement on lyme disease in dogs: diagnosis, treatment,
and prevention. J Vet Int Med 2006;20:422-434.
Eberhardt JE, Neal K, Shackelford T, Lappin MR. Prevalence of select
infectious disease agents in cats from Arizona. J Fel Med Surg 2006;8:164-168.
Lappin MR, Sebring RW, Porter M, Radecki SJ, Veir J. Effects of a
single dose of an intranasal feline herpesvirus 1, calicivirus, and
panleukopenia vaccine on clinical signs and virus shedding after challenge
with virulent feline herpesvirus 1. J Fel Med Surg 2006;8:158-163.
Strohmeyer RA, Morley PS, Hyatt DR, Dargatz DA, Scorza VA, Lappin
MR. Evaluation of bacterial and protozoal contamination of commercially
available raw meat diets for dogs. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2006;228:537-542.
Veir JK, Lappin MR, Dow SW. Evaluation of a novel immunotherapy for
treatment of chronic rhinitis in cats. J Feline Med Surg. 2006;8:400-411..
Brunt J, Guptill L, Kordick DL, Kudrak S, Lappin MR. Association of
Feline Practitioners 2006 Panel report on diagnosis, treatment, and
prevention of Bartonella spp. infections.
J Feline Med Surg. 2006;8:213-226.
Ishak AM, Radecki S, Lappin MR. Prevalence of Mycoplasma haemofelis,
'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum', Bartonella species, Ehrlichia
species, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA in the blood of cats with
anemia. J Feline Med Surg. 2007; 9:1-7.
Gary AT, Richmond HL, Tasker S, Hackett TB, Lappin MR. Survival of
Mycoplasma haemofelis and 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum' in
blood of cats used for transfusions.
J Feline Med Surg. 2006;8:321-326.
Lappin MR, Basaraba RJ, Jensen WA. Interstitial nephritis in cats
inoculated with Crandell Rees feline kidney cell lysates. J Feline
Med Surg. 2006;8:353-356.
Hackett TB, Jensen WA, Lehman TL, Hohenhaus AE, Crawford PC, Giger
U, Lappin MR. Prevalence of DNA of Mycoplasma haemofelis, 'Candidatus
Mycoplasma haemominutum,' Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and species of
Bartonella, Neorickettsia, and Ehrlichia in cats used as blood donors
in the United States. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2006;229:700-705.
Gyimesi ZS, Lappin MR, Dubey JP. Application of assays for the diagnosis
of toxoplasmosis in a colony of Woolly Monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha).
J Zoo Wild Dis 2006;37:276-280.
Allison R, Williams P, Lansdowne J, Lappin M, Lindsay D. Fatal hepatic
sarcocystosis in a puppy with eosinophilia and eosinophilic peritoneal
effusion. Vet Clin Path 2006;35:353-357.
Pearce L, Radecki S, Brewer M, Lappin MR. Prevalence of Bartonella
henselae specific antibodies in serum of cats with and without clinical
signs of central nervous system disease. J Fel Med Surg 2006;8:315-320.
Richards JR, Elston TH, Ford RB, Gaskell RM, Hartmann K, Hurley KF,
Lappin MR, Levy JK, Rodan I, Scherk M, Schultz RD, Sparkes AH.The
2006 American Association of Feline Practitioners Feline Vaccine Advisory
Panel report. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2006;229:1405-1441.
Whittemore JC, Gill VL, Jensen WA, Radecki SV, Lappin MR. Evaluation
of the association between microalbuminuria and the urine albumin-creatinine
ratio and systemic disease in dogs.
J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2006 Sep 15;229(6):958-63.
Miller DS, Sauther ML, Hunter-Ishikawa M Fish K, Culbertson H, Cuozzo
FP, Campbell TW, Andrews GA, Chavey PS, Nachreiner R, Rumbeiha W,
Stacewicz-Sapantzakis M, Lappin MR. Biomedical evaluation of free-ranging
ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) in three habitats at the Bez Mahafaly
special reserve, Madagascar. J Zoo Wildl Med 2007;38:201-216.
MacPhail CM, Inocenti C, Kudnig ST, Veir JK, Lappin MR. Atypical manifestations
of feline inflammatory polyps in three cats. J Feline Med Surg 2007
9:219-225.
Hawley JR, Shaw SE, Lappin MR Prevalence of Rickettsia felis DNA in
the blood of cats and their fleas in the United States. J Feline Med
Surg. 2007 9:258-562.
Cairns K, Brewer M, Lappin MR. Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii DNA
in vaginal and uterine samples from healthy cats of north-central
Colorado. J Feline Med Surg. 2007;9:196-201
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Bettenay SV, Lappin MR, Mueller RS. An immunohistochemical and polymerase
chain reaction evaluation of feline plasmacytic pododermatitis. Vet
Pathol. 2007 Jan;44(1):80-3.
Ishak AM, Radecki S, Lappin MR. Prevalence of Mycoplasma haemofelis,
‘Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum,’ Bartonella spp.,
Ehrlichia spp., and Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA in the blood of
cats with anemia. J Feline Med Surg 2007;9:1-7.
Whittemore JC, Miyoshi Z, Jensen WA, Radecki SV, Lappin MR. Association
between microalbuminuria and the urine albumin-creatinine ratio with
systemic disease in cats.
J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2007;230:1165-1169.
Maggs DJ, Sykes JE, Clarke HE, Yoo SH, Kass PH, Lappin MR, Rogers
QR, Waldron MK, and Fascetti AJ. Effects of dietary lysine supplementation
in cats with enzootic upper respiratory disease. J Feline Med Surg.
2007;9:97-108.
Low HC, Powell CC, Veir JK, Hawley JR, Lappin MR. Prevalence of feline
herpesvirus 1, Chlamydophila felis, and Mycoplasma spp DNA in conjunctival
cells collected from cats with and without conjunctivitis. Am J Vet
Res. 2007;68:643-648.
Haber MD, Tucker MD, Marr HS, Levy JK, Burgess J, Lappin MR, Birkenheuer
AJ. The detection of Cytauxzoon felis in apparently healthy free-roaming
cats in the USA.
Vet Parasitol. 2007;146:316-320.
Reynolds C, Lappin MR. ‘Candidatus Mycoplasma haemominutum’
infections in client-owned cats. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 2007;43:249-257.
Quimby JM, Elston T, Hawley J, Brewer M, Miller A, Lappin MR. Evaluation
of the association of Bartonella species, feline herpesvirus 1, feline
calicivirus, feline leukemia virus and feline immunodeficiency virus
with chronic feline gingivostomatitis. J Feline Med Surg. 2007 Aug
31; [Epub ahead of print].
Fontenelle JP, Powell CC, Hill AE, Radecki SV, Lappin MR. Prevalence
of serum antibodies against Bartonella species in the serum of cats
with or without uveitis.
J Feline Med Surg. 2007 Aug 22; [Epub ahead of print].
Dabritz HA, Gardner IA, Miller MA, Lappin MR, Atwill ER, Packham AE,
Melli AC, Conrad PA. Evaluation of two Toxoplasma gondii serologic
tests used in a serosurvey of domestic cats in California. J Parasitol
2007 93:806-816.
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