Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volume 21, Number 6 November 2009

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REVIEW ARTICLE

Postmortem diagnostic investigation of disease in free-ranging marine turtle populations: a review of common pathological findings and protocols. Mark Flint, Janet C. Patterson-Kane, Colin J. Limpus, Thierry M. Work, David Blair, Paul C. Mills.

FULL SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

A multiplex real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay for detection and differentiation of bluetongue and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus serogroups. William C. Wilson, Benjamin J. Hindson, Emily S. O’Hearn, Sara Hall, Christian Tellgren-Roth, Clinton Torres, Pejman Naraghi-Arani, James O. Mecham, Raymond J. Lenhoff.

Removal of RT-PCR inhibitors associated with cloacal swab samples and tissues for improved diagnosis of Avian influenza virus by real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Amaresh Das, Erica Spackman, Mary J. Pantin-Jackwood, David L. Suarez.

Optimization of immunohistochemical and fluorescent antibody techniques for localization of Foot-and-mouth disease virus in animal tissues. Jonathan Arzt, Douglas A. Gregg, Alfonso Clavijo, Luis L. Rodriguez.

Phenotypic and genetic characterization of Pasteurella multocida and related isolates from rabbits in Switzerland. Anina B.J. Stahel, Richard K. Hoop, Peter Kuhnert, Bożena M. Korczak.

Reference intervals and method optimization for variables reflecting hypo- and hypercoagulatory states in dogs using the STA Compact® automated analyzer. Natali Bauer, Oya Eralp, Andreas Moritz.

Cytokeratin and vimentin co-expression in 21 canine primary pulmonary epithelial neoplasms. Hilary J. Burgess, Moira E. Kerr.

Nuclear morphometry in cytopathology: a prognostic indicator for canine cutaneous mast cell tumors. Ricardo De Francisco Strefezzi, José Guilherme Xavier, Silvia Regina Kleeb, José Luiz Catão-Dias.

BRIEF RESEARCH REPORTS

A retrospective immunohistochemical study reveals atypical scrapie has existed in the United Kingdom since at least 1987. Paul R. Webb, Linda Powell, Margaret Denyer, Sarah Marsh, Colin Weaver, Marion M. Simmons, Elizabeth Johns, John Sheehan, Peter Horsfield, Chris Lyth, Christina Wilson, Ann Long, Saira Cawthraw, Ginny C. Saunders, Yvonne I. Spencer.

Evaluation of three rapid diagnostic tests used in bovine spongiform encephalopathy monitoring in Italy. Elena Carra, Roberta Taddei, Ilaria Barbieri, Giuliana Botti, Vito Tranquillo, Alessandra Iori, Lucia Gibelli, Monica Cerioli, Patrizia Cavadini, Daniela Gelmetti, Stefano Pongolini, Lorenzo Capucci.

Comparison of four methods to quantify Equid herpesvirus 1 load by real-time polymerase chain reaction in nasal secretions of experimentally and naturally infected horses. Nicola Pusterla, Stephen B. Hussey, Samantha Mapes, Christian M. Leutenegger, John E. Madigan, Gregory L. Ferraro, W. David Wilson, D. Paul Lunn.

Rapid detection of Infectious bursal disease virus by reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay. Chunyi Xue, Yun Zhang, Qingfeng Zhou, Cong Xu, Xiaoming Li, Yongchang Cao.

Broadly reactive pan-paramyxovirus reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and sequence analysis for the detection of Canine distemper virus in a case of canine meningoencephalitis of unknown etiology. Scott J. Schatzberg, Qiang Li, Brian F. Porter, Renee M. Barber, Mary Kate Claiborne, Jonathan M. Levine, Gwendolyn J. Levine, Sarah K. Israel, Benjamin D. Young, Matti Kiupel, Craig Greene, Susan Ruone, Larry Anderson, Suxiang Tong.

Molecular typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolate from ovine mastitis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction based on coagulase and protein A gene polymorphisms. Alper Çiftci, E. Emek Onuk, Arzu Findik, Tuba Yıldırım, Mehtap Unlu Sogut.

Isolation rates, serovars and toxin genotypes of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-independent Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae among pigs suffering from pleuropneumonia in Spain. Jaime Maldonado, Laura Valls, Eva Martínez, Pere Riera.

Species distribution and resistance patterns to growth-promoting antimicrobials of enterococci isolated from pigs and chickens in Korea. In Yeong Hwang, Hyun Ok Ku, Suk Kyung Lim, Choi Kyu Park, Gab Su Jung, Suk Chan Jung, Hyang Mi Nam.

Comparison of conventional direct and enrichment culture methods for Erysipelothrix spp. from experimentally and naturally infected swine. Joseph S. Bender, Joann M. Kinyon, Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Patrick G. Halbur, Tanja Opriessnig.

Impact of age and sex of Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) on follicle counts from rectal mucosal biopsies for preclinical detection of chronic wasting disease. Terry R. Spraker, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Tom L. Gidlewski, Randy D. Munger, W. David Walter, Aru Balachandran.

Serum thymidine kinase activity as a useful marker for bovine leukosis. Leo Sakamoto, Tetsu Ohbayashi, Kotaro Matsumoto, Yoshiyasu Kobayashi, Hisashi Inokuma.

Detection of serum amyloid A isoforms in cattle. Eiji Takahashi, Hideto Kuwayama, Keiko Kawamoto, Takane Matsui, Hisashi Inokuma.

CASE REPORTS

Coinfection of a cow with Bovine leukemia virus and Mycobacterium bovis. Dodd G. Sledge, Roger Maes, Annabel Wise, Matti Kiupel, Scott D. Fitzgerald.

Colic caused by Panicum maximum toxicosis in equidae in northern Brazil. Valíria D. Cerqueira, Gabriela Riet-Correa, José D. Barbosa, Marcos D. Duarte, Carlos M. C. Oliveira, Carlos A. de Oliveira, Carlos Tokarnia, Stephen T. Lee, Franklin Riet-Correa.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in two captive Bennett’s wallabies (Macropus rufogriseus rufogriseus). Adam W. Stern, Stephen Smith, Timothy A. Snider.

Adenomyofibroma of the fimbria in a cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis). Matthew F. Starost.

Fibromatosis in a young Bernese Mountain Dog: clinical, imaging, and histopathological findings. Yasminda Malik, Esther Sutter, Martin Konar, Silvia Rüfenacht, Judith E. K. Howard, Monika M. Welle.

A case of interscapular fibrosarcoma in a dwarf rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). Claudio Petterino, Paola Modesto, Daniela Strata, Marta Vascellari, Franco Mutinelli, Angelo Ferrari, Alessandra Ratto.

Oral squamous cell carcinoma in a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig (Sus scrofa). Julie Swenson, James W. Carpenter, John Ragsdale, Kei Kuroki, Cornelia Ketz-Riley, Erin Brinkman, Gretchen Cole.

Papillary tumor of the pineal region of a dog. Jonathan M. Williams, Ulrike Michal, Catherine Botteron, Geoffrey Skerritt, Udo Hetzel.

A KIT-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumor in a ferret (Mustela putorius furo). Anne Girard-Luc, Daniela Prata, Hélène Huet, Marie Lagadic, Florence Bernex.

Respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma in a dog. Tanya LeRoith, Ellen M. Binder, A. Heather Graham, Robert B. Duncan Jr.

Malignant edema in postpartum dairy cattle. Jenee S. Odani, Patricia C. Blanchard, John M. Adaska, Robert B. Moeller, Francisco A. Uzal.

Submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation.

Position announcements

In the next issue: Accepted manuscripts to be published in JVDI 22-1 (January 2010)

Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Volume 22, Number 1 January 2010

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E. P. Pope Memorial Award

FULL SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Detection of anti-influenza A nucleoprotein antibodies in pigs using a commercial influenza epitope-blocking enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed for avian species. Janice R. Ciacci-Zanella, Amy L. Vincent, John R. Prickett, Silvia M. Zimmerman, Jeffrey J. Zimmerman.

Development and application of an indirect immunoperoxidase assay for the detection of Duck swollen head hemorrhagic disease virus antigen in Pekin ducks (Anas platyrhynchos). Chuanfeng Li, Chanjuan Shen, Anchun Cheng, Mingshu Wang, Na Zhang, Yi Zhou, Dekang Zhu, Renyong Jia, Qihui Luo, Xiaoyue Chen.

Improved polymerase chain reaction–based method to detect early-stage epitheliotropic T-cell lymphoma (mycosis fungoides) in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded skin biopsies of the dog. Pascal Chaubert, Audrey S. Baur Chaubert, Ursula Sattler, Ursula Forster, Valérie Bornand, Maja Suter, Monika Welle.

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for detection of Equid herpesvirus 1 and 4 and differentiating a gene-deleted candidate vaccine strain from wild-type Equid herpesvirus 1 strains. Manabu Nemoto, Koji Tsujimura, Takashi Yamanaka, Takashi Kondo, Tomio Matsumura.

Orthoreovirus infection and concurrent cryptosporidiosis in rough green snakes (Opheodrys aestivus): pathology and identification of a novel orthoreovirus strain via polymerase chain reaction and sequencing. Jennifer A. Landolfi, Karen A. Terio, Michael J. Kinsel, Jennifer Langan, Trevor T. Zachariah, April L. Childress, James F. X. Wellehan Jr..

Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of salmonellae isolates from reptiles in Taiwan. Chun-Yu Chen, Wan-Ching Chen, Shih-Chien Chin, Yen-Hsueh Lai, Kwong-Chung Tung, Chien-Shun Chiou, Yuan-Man Hsu, Chao-Chin Chang.

Comparison of fluorescent antibody and microscopic agglutination testing for Leptospira in pregnant and nonpregnant cows. Sreekumari Rajeev, Roy D. Berghaus, Michael W. Overton, Mel E. Pence, Charles A. Baldwin.

Prevalence of von Willebrand disease in dogs from São Paulo State, Brazil. Cláudio Roberto S. Mattoso, Regina Kiomi Takahira, Suzane Lílian Beier, João Pessoa Araújo Jr., José Eduardo Corrente.

BRIEF RESEARCH REPORTS

Evaluation of two commercial loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for detection of avian influenza H5 and H7 hemagglutinin genes. Alexander Postel, Tobias Letzel, Sieghard Frischmann, Christian Grund, Martin Beer, Timm Harder.

Comparison of three methods for extraction of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis DNA for polymerase chain reaction from broth-based culture systems. Ogi Okwumabua, Eileen Shull, Mike O’Connor, Tou Vue Moua, Tonya Danz, Kathy Strelow.

A TaqMan quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of Lawsonia intracellularis in fecal and tissue samples from pigs. Barbara Richter, Andrea Ladinig, Nora Nedorost, Herbert Weissenböck.

Development of one-step real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays for rapid detection of porcine group C rotaviruses. Young-Hyun Chun, Young-Ju Jeong, Sang-Ik Park, Myra Hosmillo, Dong-Jun Shin, Hyung-Jun Kwon, Shien-Young Kang, Sang-Kyu Woo, Mun-Il Kang, Su-Jin Park, Kyoung-Oh Cho.

Methicillin-resistant staphylococci isolated from healthy horses and horse personnel in Italy. Luisa De Martino, Maria Lucido, Karina Mallardo, Bruna Facello, Michelina Mallardo, Giuseppe Iovane, Ugo Pagnini, Maria Antonietta Tufano, Piergiorgio Catalanotti.

Rapid chromatographic immunoassay study of brain PrPsc distribution in classical scrapie. Rosa Bolea, Enric Vidal, Belén Marín, Mercedes Márquez, Antonia Vargas, Martí Pumarola, Juan José Badiola.

Development and validation of an immunohistochemical method for the rapid diagnosis of swine erysipelas in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples. Tanja Opriessnig, Joseph S. Bender, Patrick G. Halbur.

In situ hybridization for the detection of Mycoplasma bovis in paraffin-embedded lung tissue from experimentally infected calves. Björn Jacobsen, Kathrin Hermeyer, Wolfgang Jechlinger, Martina Zimmermann, Joachim Spergser, Renate Rosengarten, Marion Hewicker-Trautwein.

Identification of a novel coronavirus possibly associated with acute respiratory syndrome in alpacas (Vicugna pacos) in California, 2007. Beate M. Crossley, Bradd C. Barr, Gary Magdesian, Michelle Ing, Daniel Mora, David Jensen, Alexandre P. Loretti, Ty McConnell, Richard Mock.

The same papillomavirus is present in feline sarcoids from North America and New Zealand, but not in any non-sarcoid feline sample. John S. Munday, Cameron G. Knight, Laryssa Howe.

CASE REPORTS

Neuropathological features of Aleutian disease in farmed mink in Ireland and molecular characterization of Aleutian mink disease virus detected in brain tissues. Hanne Jahns, Paul Daly, Maire C. McElroy, Donal J. Sammin, Hugh F. Bassett, John J. Callanan.

Vascular endothelial growth factor expression and microvascular density in soft tissue sarcomas in dogs. Genilson Fernandes de Queiroz, Maria Lucia Zaidan Dagli, Heidge Fukumasu, Arturo Alejandro Zavala Zavala, Julia Maria Matera.

Bovine abortion associated with Nocardia farcinica. Bhupinder Bawa, Jianfa Bai, Mike Whitehair, Tanya Purvis, Brad M. DeBey.

High serum and urine lysozyme levels in a dog with acute myeloid leukemia. Silvia Tasca, Tommaso Furlanello, Marco Caldin.

Epithelioid hemangiosarcomas of the bovine urinary bladder: a histologic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural examination of four tumors. Isabel Pires, Filipe Silva, Felisbina L. Queiroga, Paula Rodrigues, Rui Henriques, Carlos A. Pinto, Carlos Lopes.

A fatal case of autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale) poisoning in a heifer: confirmation by mass spectrometric colchicine detection. Jacqueline Kupper, Katharina Rentsch, Andreas Mittelholzer, Romana Artho, Sven Meyer, Hugo Kupferschmidt, Hanspeter Naegeli.

Use of real-time and classic polymerase chain reaction assays for the diagnosis of porcine tuberculosis in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. Jaime Gómez-Laguna, Librado Carrasco, Guillermo Ramis, Juan J. Quereda, Serafín Gómez, Francisco J. Pallarés.

An outbreak of late term abortions, premature births, and congenital deformities associated with a Bovine viral diarrhea virus 1 subtype b that induces thrombocytopenia. Patricia C. Blanchard, Julia F. Ridpath, Jennifer B. Walker, Sharon K. Hietala.

Intracellular yeasts in endothelial cells of a great blue heron (Ardea herodias). Caroline Millins, Janet E. Hill, Gary Wobeser.

Fatal Bluetongue virus infection in an alpaca (Vicugna pacos) in California. Joaquín Ortega, Beate Crossley, Julie E. Dechant, Clifton P. Drew, N. James MacLachlan.

Necrotizing pneumonia and pleuritis associated with extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli in a tiger (Panthera tigris) cub. Francisco R. Carvallo, Chitrita DebRoy, Esteban Baeza, Lynn Hinckley, Kelly Gilbert, Soo Jeon Choi, Guillermo Risatti, Joan A. Smyth.

Atypical Dermatophilus congolensis infection in a three-year-old pony. Barbara A. Byrne, Courtney L. Rand, Valerie R. McElliott, Eileen M. Samitz, Stephanie A. Brault.

An outbreak of orthopoxvirus-associated disease in horses in southern Brazil. Mário C. S. Brum, Bruno Leite dos Anjos, Carlos E. W. Nogueira, Lorena A. Amaral, Rudi Weiblen, Eduardo F. Flores.

Gingival osteogenic melanoma in two dogs. Angela E. Ellis, Barry G. Harmon, Debra L. Miller, Nicole C. Northrup, Kenneth S. Latimer, Elizabeth W. Uhl.

Undifferentiated carcinoma of the salivary gland in a chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera). Johanna L. Smith, Michelle Campbell-Ward, Roderick W. Else, Pamela E. J. Johnston.

Concurrent nasal adenocarcinoma and rhinosporidiosis in a cat. Bonnie M. Brenseke, Geoffrey K. Saunders.

Submitting manuscripts to the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation

Position announcements

In the next issue: Accepted manuscripts to be published in JVDI 22-2 (March 2010)