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...]
Tick-borne disease in a dog with no known history of ticks
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...]
TVMDL technician develops tick panel as part of PhD project
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...]
Lyme Disease Testing at TVMDL
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...]
TVMDL adds TickPath Layerplex (qPCR) to test catalog
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...]
Lyme Disease: A Pet Owner’s Guide
(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...]
