V.M.D., University of Pennsylvania
Internship and Residency, SA Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Specialty-Internal Medicine)

1. Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers with PLE/PLN, IBD, Addison’s disease, food allergies, renal dysplasia/juvenile renal disease, renal failure; SCWT – DNA Bank and Open Registry
2. Lyme disease
   

Infectious disease:
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 Intern Med 2006;20(2):422-434.
Littman MP, Giger U, Nolan TJ: Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies in dogs at a veterinary teaching hospital in a Lyme endemic area. J Vet Intern Med 2006;20(3):761-2.
Littman MP: Lyme disease: What to do when the SNAP is positive. NAVC Proceedings, January, 2006.
Littman MP: Evidence Based Medicine: Use of Lyme Vaccine. 106th Penn Annual Conference, Companion Animal Proceedings, March, 2006.
Diroff JS, Hardy Jr, WD, Zuckerman EE, Drobatz KJ, Nolan TJ, Withnall E, Giger, U, and Littman MP: Bartonella Seroprevalence in Diseased Dogs and Healthy Blood Donor Dogs in the Northeastern United States. J Vet Intern Med 2006;20(3):762. (abstr and poster)
Littman MP: Lyme disease in dogs. Standards of Care: Emerg and Crit Care Med 2004;6(5):1-6.
Littman MP: Lyme disease: Diagnosis and Treatment. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Veterinary Medical Forum, ACVIM 2004:552-554.
Littman MP: Update on frequently asked questions about canine Lyme disease: Diagnosis and treatment. Hartz Companion Animal Newsletter 2004;2(2):1-3.
Littman MP: Canine borreliosis. in Macintire DK and Breitschwerdt EB, eds: Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases.  Vet Clin N Am (Small Animal) 2003; 33(4):827-862.
Littman MP: Immune-mediated reactions against Lyme vaccines. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Veterinary Medical Forum, ACVIM 2000:629-630.
Littman MP: Perspectives in veterinary medicine: Why I don't use Lyme disease vaccines. Comp Cont Ed Nov.1997;19(11):1269, 1272,1274-5.
Littman MP: Lyme disease: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Veterinary Medical Forum, ACVIM 1997:515-517.
Sanders NA, Dambach DM, Littman MP: Clinical characterization of a rapidly progressive and fatal glomerulonephritis associated with Borrelia burgdorferi infection in the dog ("Lyme nephritis"). Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 1997;11:127.
Littman MP: Clinical Babesiosis in 26 dogs from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. ACVIM Abstr, 1991 and Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 1991;5(2):137.
Waddle JR and Littman MP: A retrospective study of 27 cases of naturally occurring canine Ehrlichiosis. Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association 1988;24(6):615-620.
Littman MP and Goldschmidt MH: Systemic paecilomycosis in a dog. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1987;191:445-447.

Hypertension in dogs and cats:
Littman MP: Hypertension. in Ettinger SJ and Feldman EC, eds: Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 5th ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Co, 2000:179-182.
Littman MP and Fox PR: Systemic hypertension: Recognition and treatment. in Fox PR, Sisson D, Moise NS, eds: Canine and Feline Cardiology, 2nd ed.
Philadelphia, WB Saunders Co, 1999:795-813.
Littman MP and Drobatz KJ: Hypertensive and hypotensive disorders. in Ettinger SJ and Feldman EC, eds: Textbooks of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 4th ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Co, 1995, pp. 93-100.
Littman MP: Spontaneous systemic hypertension in 24 cats. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 1994;8:79-86.
Littman MP: Update: Treatment of hypertension in dogs and cats. in Kirk RW and Bonagura JD, eds: Current Veterinary Therapy XI. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Co, 1992, pp.838-841.
Littman MP: Spontaneous systemic hypertension in dogs. British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) Congress Abstr 1991;119.
Littman MP: Cerebrovascular accidents in cats with spontaneous systemic hypertension. BSAVA Congress Abstr 1991;156.
Bovee KC, Littman MP, Crabtree BJ and Aguirre G: Characterization of essential hypertension in a male dog. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1989;195(1):81-86.
Littman MP, Robertson JL and Bovee KC: Spontaneous systemic hypertension in dogs: Five cases (1981-1983). Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1988;193(4):486-494.

Other:
Littman MP: Canine Urinary Incontinence. 106th Penn Annual Conference, Companion Animal Proceedings, March, 2006.
Littman MP: Uroendoscopy. 104th Penn Annual Conference, Companion Animal Proceedings, 2004.
Littman MP: Urinary obstruction and atony. in Ettinger SJ and Feldman EC, eds: Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 4th ed. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Co, 1995, pp.169-172.
Dhupa N and Littman MP: Epistaxis. Comp Cont Ed 1992;14(8):1033-1037, 1040-1042.
Littman MP, Niebauer GW and Hendrick MJ: Subepithelial vascular ectasia of the bladder in a dog causing macrohematuria and life-threatening anemia. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1990;196(9):1487-1489.
Stone EA, Littman MP, Robertson JL and Bovee KC: Renal dysfunction in dogs with pyometra. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 1988;193(4):457-464.