SNAP® Giardia Test for dogs and cats

Every fecal workup deserves a SNAP® Giardia Test.

Giardia is very prevalent in feline and canine diarrhea cases, but infection is often missed with fecal floats alone. That’s why we developed the SNAP Giardia Test to be used side-by-side with fecal floats.

The reliable, cost-effective SNAP Giardia Test dramatically improves the results of your workups on symptomatic GI patients. It catches those missed Giardia-positive animals up to three times as often as traditional methods.¹

The new CAPC recommendations urge testing using a combination of:

• Fecal flotation with centrifugation
  CAPC recommends that feces be routinely screened by a centrifugal flotation method because it is consistently more sensitive than simple flotation.
• Direct smear
  Direct smears can be very useful for demonstrating motile organisms. Please note: smears have limited sensitivity because of the small amount of feces examined.
• For symptomatic patients, add a sensitive, specific Giardia ELISA
  Giardiasis is commonly misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed due to intermittent shedding and difficulty identifying cysts and trophozoites.

In symptomatic patients, use all three methods to attain the best diagnostic accuracy.

• About CAPC
• About CAPC Guidelines
• About CAPC Giardasis Guidelines

This innovative in-house test helps you diagnose with confidence during the patient visit.

View the complete SNAP Giardia Test package insert. (642 KB)

Reference:

1. Groat R. Survey of clinic practices and testing for diagnosis of Giardia infections in dogs and cats. Presented at: 2003 ACVIM Forum; June 4–8; Charlotte, NC.

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