Effective November 1st, 2018 the fee for STAT requests for Toxicology testing will be increased to $70. In order to ensure that STAT testing is available for the sample type, date, and test...

Clinical Pathology no longer offers testing for Gentamicin concentration and will discontinue Amikacin concentration testing on October 31, 2018.

Phenobarbital concentration testing will only be...

Clinical pathology offers agarose gel serum protein electrophoresis as a test to investigate hyperproteinemia due to hyperglobulinemia. This test can be performed in any species, however we do not...

The Animal Health Diagnostic Center at Cornell University has increasingly been isolating Salmonella Dublin (Group D) from diagnostic samples submitted from cattle premises in the Northeast. They...

(North America) The Cornell University Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC) has seen a rise in the diagnosis of equine enteric coronavirus cases since initial outbreaks were investigated...

(North America) Equine Arbovirus season is upon us and 23 cases of West Nile Virus (WNV) have been diagnosed in the past month at the AHDC. Two cases have been reported in New York. The first was...

(NY) Marked selenium deficiency was diagnosed in a 27 year old Arabian mare. The horse was found in lateral recumbency, unable to move into sternal without assistance. She had been apparently...

(NY) Brucella canis: An adult male and two adult female breeding dogs from the same facility were diagnosed with Brucellosis. All of the dogs were born at the kennel. The Brucella (B.) canis...

(Central USA) Severe von Willebrand factor deficiency, known as "Type 3" von Willebrand disease (VWD), was recently diagnosed in a one-year old male Australian shepherd. The sample was submitted...

Please be advised that due to extreme heat being experienced over the central and eastern United States, the AHDC recommends that you remove serum from clot tubes or serum separator tubes prior...