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Piccione presents at 2018 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum

June 27, 2018 by Mallory Pfeifer

Earlier this month Clinical Pathology Section Head Julie Piccione, DVM, MS, DACVP, spoke at the 2018 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) Forum on Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF). TBRF is endemic in the state of Texas and has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: acvim, clinical pathology, tick, TVMDL, TVMDL-College Station

Tick-borne disease in a dog with no known history of ticks

April 16, 2018 by Mallory Pfeifer

Tick-borne disease in a dog with no known history of ticks By Julie Piccione, DVM, MS, DACVP With over 800,000 tests run annually, TVMDL encounters many challenging cases. Our case study series will highlight these interesting cases to increase … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Case Study Tagged With: canine, tick, tick-born, tick-born relapsing fever, TVMDL, TVMDL-College Station, yorkie

TVMDL technician develops tick panel as part of PhD project

March 21, 2018 by Mallory Pfeifer

There is a gap in knowledge concerning active infections of tick-borne diseases in animals across the United States-Mexico border. Previous studies have focused on identifying animals with recent or past exposure to tick-borne pathogens (e.g. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: canine, college station, equine, Molecular Diagnostics, tick, TVMDL, TVMDL-College Station

Lyme Disease Testing at TVMDL

March 12, 2018 by Mallory Pfeifer

Lyme Disease Testing at TVMDL Sandy Rodgers, MS, Section Head Serology, College Station Borrelia burgdorferi is a spirochete that causes Lyme Disease. The organism can be transmitted to dogs and humans by infected ticks. The Texas A&M … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Case Study Tagged With: college station, Lyme disease, serology, tick, TVMDL

TVMDL adds TickPath Layerplex (qPCR) to test catalog

January 30, 2018 by Mallory Pfeifer

Blood smear depicting Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever

The Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) is pleased to announce the addition of a TickPath Layerplex (qPCR) panel to our catalog of tests. This panel detects tick-borne pathogen DNA for Rickettsiales species, Borrelia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Test Catalog Updates Tagged With: college station, Molecular Diagnostics, test updates, tick, Tick Borne Relapsing Fever, TVMDL, veterinary diagnostics

Lyme Disease: A Pet Owner’s Guide

May 26, 2015 by smorris

Aged Golden Retriever laying in a stack of leaves with a white and black cat sitting by its side.

(posted from AVMA.org) Lyme disease (Lyme borreliosis) is an illness that affects both animals and humans – what is known as a zoonotic disease – and is the most commonly reported vector-borne illness in the United States, according to the U.S. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DX Guidance, News Tagged With: anaplasmosis, CDC, ehrlichiosis, Lyme, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, tick, TVMDL, zoonotic

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