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Laboratory Diagnosticians' News Matters |
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Update on Abstract Submissions – deadline extended to June 15, 2021 |
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Jeremiah T. Saliki , DVM, PhD, DACVM
President-Elect and 2021 Program Chair
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Thanks to the 82 people who have already completed or started the submission of their abstracts for consideration as oral or poster presentations at the upcoming meeting in Denver, CO. We are just about halfway to the number of presentations needed to fill the scientific program. I know several of you are still working on your abstracts and trust that you will submit them for consideration by the new deadline of June 15, 2021.
The value of our scientific program to members largely depends on the number, variety, and quality of scientific presentations. I thank you for enriching the program through your abstracts. I also want to thank our volunteer abstract reviewers for their patience as we await completion of the abstract submission phase.
Jerry Saliki
President-Elect and 2021 Program Chair
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If you haven't already, please take a moment to create an account and submit your abstract!
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ATTENTION: Vendors Serving Veterinary Diagnostic Labs and the Animal Health Industry |
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2021 AAVLD Hybrid Trade Show
During the AAVLD/USAHA Annual Meeting October 22 -26, 2021
Onsite in Denver CO and Virtual
We hope to see you there. Exhibitor prospectus coming soon!
For details contact our meeting planner Kaylin Taylor
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Please send your nominations/self nomination explaining eligibility, name, email address, and total years of membership to Awards Chair Dr. Deep Tewari (dtewari@pa.gov) and Reda Ozuna (rozuna@aavld.org) by July 1st.
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President Shuping Zhang is pleased to announce that at the June AAVLD Executive Board meeting, the Directors approved the transition of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Task Force to an AAVLD Special Committee of the same name. The DEI Task Force was appointed by then President Deep Tewari in 2020. The task force successfully launched efforts to ensure AAVLD fosters a diverse and inclusive environment. Led by Cochairs Cat Barr and Amar Patil, the Task Force crafted an AAVLD DEI policy (see below), following a survey and input from the general membership. Members may have noticed announcements drawing their attention to thought-provoking programs including PBS NOVA’s ‘Picture a Scientist’ and the Davis & Thompson Foundation’s Voices in Pathology series discussion, ‘Asian Voices’. In addition, the business pages of the JVDI will soon contain statements regarding DEI related policies. Ongoing efforts continue and the transition from Task Force to Special Committee ensures these efforts will continue from year to year. |
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Catherine Barr, PhD, Cochair |
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Amar Patil, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, Cochair |
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Members of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee are: |
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Maria Spinato
Kristy Farmer
Tanya LeRoith
Gary Anderson
Katie Woodard
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Rafaela De Negri
Debbie Reed
William Wilson
Christie Mayo
Moges W Woldemeskel
Jerry Saliki (ex-officio)
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AAVLD Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policy
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The American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) values and respects each member, irrespective of race, ethnicity, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, political affiliation, education or disability. The AAVLD believes diversity enhances the mission and goals of the Association. The AAVLD listens to and appreciates all voices and believes every human being should be treated with respect. The AAVLD is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment with equitable treatment for all.
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AAVLD / USAHA Annual Meeting Tentative Schedule |
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Join CDC's Monthly ZOHU Call |
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Dear colleagues,
As you may know, CDC’s One Health Office hosts monthly webinars, called CDC Zoonoses and One Health Updates, or ZOHU Calls. These webinars cover timely issues related to zoonoses and One Health topics in the United States. The ZOHU Call allows participants to share information and gain knowledge on hot topics in One Health; build partnerships across human, animal, environmental health and other sectors; create networks; and learn about emerging and important issues in One Health. Currently, more than 1,200 people subscribe to the ZOHU Call newsletter, including public health and animal health officials; epidemiologists; veterinarians; physicians; nurses; and other public health practitioners at the federal, state, and local levels as well as professionals from non-governmental organizations, industry, and academia.
ZOHU Calls offer free Continuing Education for a variety of public health, animal health, and human health professionals. Participants can earn CME, CNE, CEU, CECH, CPH and AAVSB/RACE. Each call is recorded and available online for those unable to attend live sessions.
Please help us by letting your colleagues and partners know about this exciting opportunity. We hope that ZOHU Calls will continue to be a valuable educational and professional resource for those involved and interested in One Health work. Suggestions for presentation topics and questions about ZOHU Calls can be directed to zohucall@cdc.gov, and consider subscribing to the monthly ZOHU Call News and Updates email newsletter.
Warm regards,
The One Health Office
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Jerry Saliki is the director of the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Center in Stillwater, OK. His team stepped up to expand testing capacity at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SETH BODINE / HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, animal disease labs across the country stepped up to expand testing capacity, and they could play a role in preventing the next pandemic.
Spillover events, animal diseases that jump to humans, happen often, according to Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology and disease ecology at the University of California - Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Most novel diseases and emerging infections that jump from one species to another don’t cause big problems, she says. In other cases, it can be bad.
“Sometimes things jump into livestock, cook along and then jump into people or affect our food supply so devastatingly that it has a major effect on food security,” Mazet says.
As a global director for a project called PREDICT, which detected emerging diseases around the world that could transfer from animals to humans, she says her team detected hundreds of novel coronaviruses and other viruses.
Diseases can be devastating for the agricultural sector too. One example is African swine fever, which is affecting producers in China.
“You planned your business to have so many born, so many get raised up and go to market,” says
Corinne Bromfield is a swine extension veterinarian at the University of Missouri. “And if they get born, but they don't go to market, or even if they don't get born, because there's sows aborting, all of that is really detrimental to the industry.”
Animal disease labs during COVID-19
Animal disease experts and the USDA were already involved in the COVID-19 pandemic. Labs like the Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Stillwater stepped up to expand testing capacity. Jerry Saliki, the lab’s director, said they had to reassign and hire more staff and rapidly train them. People were working 12 to 18 hours every day.
“It was like a wartime effort,” Saliki says.
The lab is part of the National Animal Health Laboratory Network, a network of state labs that work with the USDA to surveil animal diseases. Saliki says animal testing diagnostic labs are used to tracking large-scale outbreaks, which is why they have more equipment capacity than public health labs.
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The Oklahoma Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory used these machines to process COVID-19 tests. Since animal disease experts are used to tracking large numbers of infected animals, labs have larger capacities to run tests.
CREDIT SETH BODINE / HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA
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“Rarely does a period of five years go by without a major outbreak of a disease involving millions of one animal species. So we have that experience over a long period of time,” Saliki says.
Preventing future pandemics
In the past 10 years, more than 70% of the emerging diseases that have affected humans have an animal component. That’s according to Ken Burton, a coordinator for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF).
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with the Department of Homeland Security to create the massive lab in Manhattan, Kansas, with the goal of preventing any emerging diseases that might threaten the food supply chain or agriculture industry. NBAF will also work on vaccine development and hold a vaccine bank for foot-and-mouth disease, Burton says. When the next pandemic rolls around, their facility could play a part in preventing it, he says.
“It could provide a supporting role in future public health crises with relation to the basic animal research that's done, and diagnostics and countermeasure development in addition to training and response,” Burton says.
Experts like Mazet think government facilities like NBAF play a role in preventing diseases, but there needs to be early monitoring and action to prevent diseases.
“We should have been ready and been watching for all these coronaviruses that we know can jump species earlier,” Mazet says. “But even when it happens, then we waited ... before the international community jumped in. So we need to have that early flag, respond quickly and largely, and then scale back when we get it under control or if it’s not a real problem.”
Mazet says this will require a change in mindset.
“What I've seen throughout my career, we had … to stop working on Ebola and funding got shifted to Zika. So that's the way humans behave,” Mazet says. “And we need to figure out how we can adjust our own behavior to be better prepared.”
NBAF is expected to open in October and be fully operational by 2023. Burton says disease labs now have a better roadmap for how to help during the next pandemic.
“Collaborations not only within the agricultural community, but also the crossover between the human side and the animal side is going to be extremely important going forward,” Burton says.
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Animal Disease Labs Stepped Up During COVID-19 And Could ...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, animal disease labs across the country stepped up to expand testing capacity, and they could play a role in preventing the next pandemic. Spillover events, animal diseases that jump to humans, happen often, ...
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The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has changed the method used for two of its endocrine assays. Effective April 16, 2021, the measurement of endogenous adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) will be performed using a chemiluminescent immunometric assay. The previous radioimmunoassay assay method has been discontinued. In addition, the previously validated whole-molecule PTH immunoradiometric assay used by the Laboratory since May 2010 has been discontinued by the manufacturer. Effective May 26, 2021, the MSU VDL transitioned to a new automated intact PTH chemiluminescent immunometric assay. Both of these assay transitions also help to reduce the amount of radioactive waste generated by the Laboratory. |
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The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (MSU VDL), a service unit in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is a premier, full-service, fully accredited veterinary diagnostic laboratory for all species. We are the diagnostic...
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Our June focus is the Review article in JVDI’s upcoming July issue:
“Review of methods for the detection of Lawsonia intracellularis infection in pigs,”
by Marta Campillo, Sionagh H. Smith, David L. Gally, Tanja Opriessnig.
Abstract. Lawsonia intracellularis is an obligate intracellular bacterium associated with enteric disease in pigs. Clinical signs include weight loss, diarrhea, and, in some cases, sudden death. The hallmark lesion is the thickening of the intestinal mucosa caused by increased epithelial cell replication, known as proliferative enteropathy. The immune response to L. intracellularis is not well defined, and detection of the infection, especially in the early stages, is still a significant challenge. We review here the main approaches used to identify this important but poorly understood pathogen. Detection of L. intracellularis infection as the cause of clinical disease is confounded by the high prevalence of the pathogen in many countries and that several other pathogens can produce similar clinical signs. A single L. intracellularis–specific ELISA and several amplification assays are available commercially to aid detection and surveillance, although histopathology remains the primary way to reach a conclusive diagnosis. There are major gaps in our understanding of L. intracellularis pathogenesis, especially how the host responds to infection and the factors that drive infection toward different clinical outcomes. Knowledge of pathogenesis will increase the predictive value of antemortem tests to guide appropriate interventions, including identification and treatment of subclinically affected pigs in the early stages of disease, given that this important manifestation reduces pig productivity and contributes to the economic burden of L. intracellularis worldwide.
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Figure 1. Lawsonia intracellularis infection and associated lesions. A. Pig ileum from a case of acute proliferative enteropathy (PE). The lumen is filled with clotted blood, and the exposed mucosa is markedly thickened and corrugated. B. Pig ileum from a case of acute PE. The blood clot has been removed to expose the highly corrugated mucosa. A severe case of chronic PE would appear similar grossly, lacking only the intraluminal blood clot. C. Dramatic enterocyte hyperplasia in an intestinal crypt from a case of PE, in which there is also goblet cell depletion. H&E. 400×. D. PK15 cells infected with L. intracellularis, which is labeled with a specific monoclonal antibody and detected with AlexaFluor594 (red; arrows). PK15 actin is labeled with phalloidin-495 (green), and nuclei are labeled with DAPI (blue). Immunofluorescence with confocal microscopy. 400×.
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AAVLD New Member Benefit MC l LMS is now here! |
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Take a look, the MC l LMS is now here!
AAVLD has brought you a new membership benefit that is sure to peek your interest. The MC l LMS is a Learning Management System. The MC l LMS will keep certification and training materials in one place. Members can view training videos, scientific presentations and much more. AAVLD is offering the current packages to AAVLD members as a membership benefit.
Some of the MC l LMS features:
- Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Oasis
- Content Upload and Management
- Customized Certificates
- Continuing Education Tracking
- Group-based Permissions
- Progress and Usage Reporting
View 2020 Annual Meeting materials NOW!
- Recordings of Scientific Sessions
- Procceedings booklet (abstracts)
- Plenary Speaker lectures from the 2020 meeting
All are available to AAVLD members at no cost.
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AAVLD Membership Drive Competition – Earn a Free Lunch for yourself or your Lab!! |
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Dear AAVLD Members:
We hope you and your loved ones are staying safe during this unprecedented crisis. We want to reach out to you on behalf of AAVLD as co-chairs of the membership committee. The strength of AAVLD as a corporate body largely depends on the commitment of its members and we want to heartily thank you for support of the organization over the years.
Our vibrancy as an organization depends on a strong involved membership base. In this regard, we remind you of the ongoing membership drive competition which due to COVID issues, we have now extended the competition to September 30, 2021.
Competition Timeframe: January 2020 through September 30, 2021.
How to submit: The competition is open to individual members and to Laboratories. The goal is to grow our organization’s membership through the recruitment of new members and bringing back previous members whose membership has lapsed by two or more years. Each time you successfully sponsor a new member who subscribes, send your name (personal or institution) and the name of the new member to rozuna@aavld.org and burrough@iastate.edu.
Prizes: Winners will be selected based solely on the number of new or renewing (after ≥ 2-year lapse) members recruited. The winners will be recognized at the AAVLD annual meeting during the Foundation Auction. There will be two prizes – one individual and one Lab:
· Individual prize: $100 Visa debit card: treat yourself for being an outstanding supporter!
· Laboratory prize: $500 Visa debit card: use these funds to celebrate with your lab mates!
We wish you continuous safety during the months ahead and look forward to meeting you online at the October annual meeting.
Debra Royal & Eric Burrough
Co-Chairs, Membership Committee
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2021 Hybrid AAVLD / USAHA Annual Meeting |
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There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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2022 Renewals are due by November 15!
'Membership is January to December'
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AAVLD membership is open to any individual interested in the disciplines and activities of veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Membership terms are by calendar year (January-December) and membership dues are payable by November 15th of the preceding year (to ensure inclusion in the annual membership directory, eligibility for committee involvement, and receipt of all six issues of the JVDI). Note: In order to receive a discounted rate for the Annual Meeting registration, you are required to be a current AAVLD Member. |
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Did your membership Lapse? |
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Please select 'Renew Now' to access the Lapsed Membership renewal form. www.aavld.org ->Quick Links->Renew Now->here you can access the Lapsed Membership Form.
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Frequently Asked Questions Regarding AAVLD Membership:
When are my dues fee due?
They are due November 15 for the next calendar year. Many members pay for the next year when they register for the annual meeting. Lead time is needed to finalize committee appointments for the new year.
Does it matter who pays for my dues?
No. Your status will be the same with their respective privileges whether you pay, your employer pays, or your Uncle Vinny.
Are Lab Accreditation dues different than Institutional/Agency membership dues?
Yes
· Laboratory Accreditation dues are different and separate and are related to accreditation only and go to fund the accreditation program only.
· Whether accredited or not, a Laboratory (or Institution/Agency) may additionally become an Institutional/Agency Member. By doing so they are supporting the broad mission of the AAVLD and these funds go to support CE and training and all other activities of the AAVLD. Institutional/Agency Members are highly valued members and are demonstrating leadership and belief in our organizational purpose.
Do Institutional/Agency Member labs have to pay for their employees individual dues?
No. A laboratory, institution, agency or department can become a member under this category even without signing up their employees. They are simply supporting the AAVLD mission with their dues payment. Some states are not allowed to pay for employee dues; and some states have budgetary restrictions.
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2021 Committee Appointments |
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If you wish to serve on a particular committee in 2021, contact the committee chairs now and express your interest. Thank you!
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AAVLD & News Worthy Events |
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- Executive Board Virtual Meeting, August 4, 2021-VIRTUAL
- Accreditation Committee, Meeting August 2-3, 2021-VIRTUAL
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AAVLD/USAHA Hybrid Annual Conference, Gaylord of the Rockies, Denver, Colorado, October 22-October 26, 2021 (Due to the uncertainty with Covid-19, their may be updates to the details of the meeting.)
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Do you have ideas to improve the AAVLD annual meeting? Contact David Zeman dzeman@aavld.org
Would you like to sponsor an event? Contact
What ever your contribution to the AAVLD mission, we need you!
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Thank You to our Exhibitors and Sponsors of the 2021 Annual Meeting!
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The generous contributions and participation by our Exhibitors and Sponsors is a huge part of our conference success year after year. On behalf of the AAVLD, we would like to thank these companies for their commitment to our organization and helping us to achieve our mission.
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Thank you
2021 Annual Meeting Sponsors
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Science and Technology - Clark & Enersen
Our specialized team of experts and thought leaders has been involved in the programming, planning, and design of more than $5 billion worth of science and technology facilities, and were recently ranked #15 on the 2020 Giants 400 rankings of the ...
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Zoetis, the largest global animal health company
At Zoetis, our work is guided by a simple vision - that our products, services and people will be the most valued by animal health customers around the world. Learn more Zoetis delivers quality medicines, vaccines and diagnostic products, which...
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AAVLD Foundation Committee
Brett Webb- Cochair
Francois Elvinger- Cochair
John M. Adaska
Donal O'Toole
Tim Baszler
David Zeman
Bruce Akey
Jerry Saliki
Christie Mayo
Kristy Pabilonia
Beate Crossley
François Elvinger
Pat Halbur
Brett Webb
Jamie Henningson
Kerry Sondgeroth
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The AAVLD Foundation is a non-profit foundation that raises funds for the advancement of veterinary diagnostic laboratory disciplines through scholarship programs, student travel support to our scientific meeting, guest lectures, seminars, professional awards and research programs. Contributions to the Foundation are tax-deductible 501(c)(3), and can be paid when you renew your AAVLD membership. Thank you for remembering your AAVLD Foundation!
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