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(North America) Strongyloides papillosus has recently been implicated as the cause of an outbreak of sudden death in 3-month old dairy calves on a well-managed farm in New...
Check out updated reports on Canine Influenza matrix positives here! This is important for tracing the spread of the disease throughout the United States.
The Baker...
You asked, we listened! The Parasitology Laboratory is now quantifying parasite stages in loose and even in small amount of fecal samples from production animals. We, however, need to...
The Longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, is an exotic tick reported first in the United States in November, 2017, on a sheep farm in New Jersey. Recently, the tick has been...
The Virology Laboratory of the AHDC has posted information and charts on the AHDC website showing compiled data for various viral serological tests. The URL for the specific virus test...
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...
Clinical Pathology no longer offers testing for Gentamicin concentration and will discontinue Amikacin concentration testing on October 31, 2018.
Phenobarbital concentration testing...
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...
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 have all shown the same antimicrobial susceptibility profile, being resistant to most antibiotics. It is unknown how and when multi-drug resistant Salmonella Dublin strains emerged in the northeastern bovine industry, or how widespread they are.
(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...
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