In this issue:
Specimen Reception update - cold weather shipping and humane transportation
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing: Part 1 Test methods
Ruminants
Salmonella Dublin in a goat kid
What bugs are causing BRD in young dairy calves
Swine
Porcine Circovirus 2-associated vasculitis in a young farmed wild boar
Sudden death in sows: AHL pathology results, 2010-2021
Reminder: OAHN swine small herd postmortem project
Avian/fur/exotic
Severe myositis associated with encephalomyelitis in chickens
Knemidocoptes mutans (scaly leg mite)
New Test: Serpentovirus (reptile nidovirus) RT - PCR
Horses
B-cell chronic chronic lymphocytic leukemia with monoclonal gammopathy in a horse
Companion animals
Streptococcus equi ssp zooepidemicus and canine respiratory disease
Feline gastrointestinal eosinopnhilic sclerosing fibroplasia in two cats
AHL Newsletter
December, 2021 - Volume 25, Number 4 ISSN 1481-7179
Editor: Maria Spinato, DVM, DVSc, Diplomate ACVP, MBA
Editorial Assistants: Helen Oliver, Sofija Jelacic
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