In this issue

Update from the Director [2]

Animal Health Lab User’s Guide and Fee Schedule – May 1, 2021 [3]

Equine diarrhea PCR panels [4]

Staff highlights: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) at AHL [5]

Bacterial taxonomy update [6]

Update on submission of live animals for postmortem [7]

Changes in AHL Histopathology charging parameters for 2021/2022 [8]

OAHN update – June 2021 [9]

Ruminants                   

Congenital disproportionate dwarfism in a beef calf [10]

Congenital BVDV type 1 infection in a group of lambs: a shaky situation [11]

Swine

Porcine circovirus 3 (PCV3) results at the AHL, 2018-2021 [12]

CanSpot ASF surveillance testing – reminder for swine veterinarians [13]

Avian/fur/exotic

Disseminated idiopathic myofasciitis in a ferret [14]

Baylisascaris-associated neural larval migrans in a group of juvenile Red-necked wallabies [15]

Lameness disorders in poultry [16]

Equine

Spotlight on equine hemangiosarcoma [17]

Squamous cell carcinoma in the hoof of a horse [18]

Companion animals

Acetaminophen intoxication in a dog [19]

Flow cytometry confirmation of canine histiocytic sarcoma [20]

Disseminated mycobacteriosis in a Siberian cat (Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis) [21]

 

AHL Newsletter
June 2021 - Volume 25, Number 2                                                                                                                        ISSN 1481-7179
       Editor:  Maria Spinato, DVM, DVSc, MBA, Diplomate ACVP
       Editorial Assistant:  Helen Oliver

The AHL Newsletter is published quarterly (March, June, September, December) by the Animal Health Laboratory, Laboratory Services Division, University of Guelph.

Its mission is to inform AHL clients and partners about AHL current activities, and laboratory-based animal disease events and disease trends.  All material is copyright 2021.  Ideas and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the University or the Editor.

Articles may be reprinted with the permission of the Editor and with appropriate credit given to the AHL Newsletter.

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