The 2020 joint-meeting of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) and the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) recently concluded. This year’s meeting was entirely virtual and offered live and pre-recorded presentations from October 5–21.
Eight professionals from the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) presented oral or poster presentations at this year’s AAVLD/USAHA meeting.
Please join TVMDL in thanking the following professionals for representing the agency:
Owais Khan, BVSc, MVSc, DACVM
“Prevalence and antibiograms of Salmonella serovars isolated from diagnostic specimens of dogs and cats submitted between year 2014 to 2019”
TVMDL coauthors: Jessie D. Monday, DVM, Russell H. Raleigh, Sonia W. Lingsweiler, Narayan, C. Paul, DVM, PhD, Amy K. Swinford, DVM, MS, DACVM
Amy Swinford, DVM, MS, DACVM
“Risk Assessment at TVMDL”
Maritza Anguiano
“The benefits, considerations and outcome of transitioning from traditional light microscopy to digital pathology in a diagnostic laboratory”
TVMDL coauthors: Alexis Templeton, Erin Edwards, Gabriel Gomez, Jay Hoffman
Gabriel Gomez, DVM, PhD, DACVP
“Retrospective Survey of Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Bacterial Disease of Captive White-Tailed Deer Submitted to the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL)”
TVMDL coauthors: Erin Edwards, DVM, MS, DACVP, Narayan Paul, DVM, PhD, Kellie Richardson, Terry Hensley, DVM, MS, Josué Díaz-Delgado, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Josué Díaz-Delgado, DVM, PhD, DACVP
“Trypanosoma cruzi genotype I and Toxoplasma gondii coinfection in a red-necked wallaby (syn. Bennett’s wallaby; Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus)
TVMDL coauthors: Pamela Ferro, PhD, Gabriel Gomez, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Jeremie Korchia, DVM, DACVP
“Novel Approach of Total Allowable Error Determination for Quantitative Laboratory Test Validation & Performance: Example of an Immunoassay (Immulite 2000 Xpi) for Serum and Urine Cortisol in Dogs”
Narayan Paul, DVM, PhD
“Concurrent infection of Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicas and Canine parainfluenza virus in a group of shelter dogs”
TVMDL coauthors: Pamela J. Ferro, DVM, Andres de la Concha-Bermejillo, DVM, PhD
In addition to presenting at the AAVLD/USAHA joint meeting, professionals presented at the following virtual conferences earlier this fall.
Davis-Thompson DVM Foundation’s 30th Annual Southcentral Division Meeting
- Dr. Erin Edwards: “Feline cutaneous protothecosis”
- Dr. Gaya Balamayooran: “Suid herpesvirus 1 infection in a Cane Corso dog”
- Dr. Josué Díaz-Delgado: “Central nervous system neoplasm in a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)”
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
All professionals were listed as co-authors on veterinary student posters
- Dr. Erin Edwards: “Concurrent canine distemper and tyzzer’s disease in a gray fox”
- Dr. Josué Díaz-Delgado & Dr. Erin Edwards: “Pulmonary and mesothelial neoplasia in a captive lion (Panthera leo leo)”
- Dr. Gabriel Gomez & Dr. Josué Díaz-Delgado: “Bovine adenovirus 3 pneumonia in a white-tailed deer fawn”