In this issue:

Update from the Director [2]

Animal Health Lab User's Guide and Fee Schedule - May 1, 2022 [3]

Comprehensive bovine respiratory disease panel - Update [4]

OAHN June 2022 update [5]

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing: Part 3 - Selection of antimicrobials [6]

Ruminants

Vacular lesions in a young dairy heifer with BVDV [7]

Swine

Leptospirosis in an Ontario swine herd [8]

Avian/fur/exotic

Wild bird migration and the movement of Avian Influenza virus [9]

Bromethalin exposure in a free-ranging American black bear (Ursus americanus) [10]

Recurring cutaneous melanoma in a South African white lion [11]

Companion animals

Extra-osseous osteosarcoma in a dog [12]

Fatal heartworm (D. immitis) in a dog with evidence of cerebral nematodiasis [13]

Lung fluke (Paragonimus kellicotti) infection in dogs and cats [14]

 

AHL Newsletter

June, 2022 - Volume 26, Number 2                                                                                                       ISSN 1481-7179

       Editor:  Maria Spinato, DVM, DVSc, Diplomate ACVP, MBA

       Editorial Assistants:  Helen Oliver, Sofija Jelacic

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 2022.  Ideas and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the University or the Editor.

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