Improving access to melarsomine therapy: treating canine heartworm infection in a high-volume, outpatient community clinic setting.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThis study followed internationally recognized high standards (‘best practice’) of individual veterinary clinical patient care. The treatment provided and the data collected were part of standard clinical care at Emancipet. Ethical approval from a committee was therefore not needed. Informed consent (either verbal or written) was obtained from the owner or legal guardian of all animal(s) described in this study for the procedure(s) undertaken. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsFor the sake of transparency, the authors would like to note that the ASPCA has previously provided grant funding to Emancipet for programmatic and research projects and that Emancipet was contracted to design and conduct this work. The work and publication were contingent upon the review and approval of members of the ASPCA’s Strategy and Research department. Competing interests For the sake of transparency, the authors would like to note that the ASPCA has previously provided grant funding to Emancipet for programmatic and research projects and that Emancipet was contracted to design and conduct this work. The work and publication were contingent upon the review and approval of members of the ASPCA’s Strategy and Research department."

"Funding This work was designed and conducted under paid contract with the ASPCA."