Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic
Investigation
Volume 22, Number 2 March
2010
Table of Contents
REVIEW ARTICLES
Type A botulism in horses in the United States: A review of the past ten years (1998–2008). Amy L. Johnson, Susan C. McAdams, Robert H. Whitlock.
Equine primary liver tumors: a case series and review of the literature. Janet Beeler-Marfisi, Luis Arroyo, Jeff L. Caswell, Josepha DeLay, Dorothee Bienzle.
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Prevalence and antigenic differences observed between Bovine viral diarrhea virus subgenotypes isolated from cattle in Australia and feedlots in the southwestern United States. Julia F. Ridpath, Robert W. Fulton, Peter D. Kirkland, John D. Neill.
Diagnostic accuracy of methods for detecting Anaplasma marginale infection in lactating dairy cattle of Puerto Rico. Geoffrey T. Fosgate, José H. Urdaz-Rodríguez, Mark D. Dunbar, D. Owen Rae, G. Arthur Donovan, Pedro Melendez, Georgina L. Dobek, A. Rick Alleman.
F2-isoprostanes as markers of in vivo lipid peroxidation: a comparison of enzyme immunoassays with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry in domestic animal species. Carl Soffler, Vicki L. Campbell, Diana M. Hassel.
Optimization of a whole blood gamma interferon assay for the detection of sheep infected with Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis. Katrina L. Bosward, Navneet K. Dhand, Douglas J. Begg, Peter C. Thomson, David L. Emery, Richard J. Whittington.
Characterization of Fowl adenovirus serotype 4 isolated from chickens with hydropericardium syndrome based on analysis of the short fiber protein gene. Masaji Mase, Kikuyasu Nakamura, Tadao Imada.
Rapid polymerase chain reaction diagnosis of white-nose syndrome in bats. Jeffrey M. Lorch, Andrea Gargas, Carol Uphoff Meteyer, Brenda M. Berlowski-Zier, D. Earl, Green, Valerie Shearn-Bochsler, Nancy J. Thomas, David S. Blehert
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Development of in situ hybridization assay that differentiates between two genotypes of Porcine circovirus-2 in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues. Duyeol Kim, Yooncheol Ha, Yeonsu Oh, Kiwon Han, Seung Ho Noh, Cheolwoo Kim, Sung-Hoon Kim, Chanhee Chae.
Rapid and reliable genotyping technique for GM1 gangliosidosis in Shiba dogs by real-time polymerase chain reaction with TaqMan minor groove binder probes. Hye-Sook Chang, Toshiro Arai, Akira Yabuki, Mohammad A. Hossain, Mohammad M. Rahman, Keijiro Mizukami, Osamu Yamato.
Evaluation of a commercial real time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction kit for the diagnosis of Bovine respiratory syncytial virus infection. Edouard Timsit, Cyril Maingourd, Eric Le Dréan, Catherine Belloc, Henri Seegers, Alain Douart, Sébastien Assié.
A rapid assay for detecting antibody against Bluetongue virus with a latex agglutination test using recombinant VP7 antigen. Junxing Yang, Qunyi Hua, Huanchun Chen, Jianqiang Lv, Bing Chen, Zhouxi Ruan.
Detection of Caprine herpesvirus 1–specific antibodies in goat sera using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and serum neutralization test. Mariarosaria Marinaro, Anna Lucia Bellacicco, Elvira Tarsitano, Michele Camero, Valeriana Colao, Maria Tempesta, Canio Buonavoglia.
Evaluation of formalin-fixed ileum as the optimum method to diagnose equine dysautonomia (grass sickness) in simulated intestinal biopsies. Elspeth M. Milne, R. Scott Pirie, Bruce C. McGorum, Darren J. Shaw.
Experimental validation of a nested polymerase chain reaction targeting the genetic element ISMAP02 for detection of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in bovine colostrums. Patrick Pithua, Scott J. Wells, Sandra M. Godden, Srinand Sreevatsan, Judith R. Stabel.
Stability of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus at ambient temperatures. Anna C. Jacobs, Joseph R. Hermann, Claudia Muñoz-Zanzi, John R. Prickett, Michael B. Roof, Kyoung-Jin Yoon, Jeffrey J. Zimmerman.
Quantitative detection of porcine Torque teno virus in Porcine circovirus-2–negative and Porcine circovirus–associated disease-affected pigs. Sung-seok Lee, Sunwoo Sunyoung, Hokyung Jung, Jungyeon Shin, Young S. Lyoo.
A quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for detection and quantification of Lawsonia intracellularis. Mary Drozd, Issmat I. Kassem, Wondwossen Gebreyes, Gireesh Rajashekara.
Prevalence of hemotropic mycoplasmas in healthy and unhealthy cats and dogs in Spain. Xavier Roura, Iain R. Peters, Laura Altet, Maria-Dolores Tabar, Emily N. Barker, Marta Planellas, Chris R. Helps, Olga Francino, Susan E. Shaw, Séverine Tasker.
Molecular characterization of ovine zygomycosis in central western Brazil. Daphine Ariadne Jesus de Paula, João Xavier de Oliveira Filho, Maria Cristina da Silva, Edson Moleta Colodel, Leonardo Broetto, Paulo Marcos Pinto, Augusto Schrank, Luciano Nakazato, Valéria Dutra.
The interlobular distribution of copper in the liver of beef calves on a high-copper diet. Marta Miranda, José Luis Benedito, Betiana Gutiérrez, Marco García-Vaquero, Isabel Blanco-Penedo, Marta López-Alonso.
CASE REPORTS
Natural fatal Sarcocystis falcatula infections in free-ranging eagles in North America. Arno Wünschmann, Daniel Rejmanek, Patricia A. Conrad, Natalie Hall, Luis Cruz-Martinez, Samuel B. Vaughn, Bradd C. Barr.
Non–West Nile virus-associated mortality in a population of American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos): a gross and histopathologic study. Andrew D. Miller, Andrea K. Townsend, Kevin J. McGowan, Anne B. Clark, Amy L. Glaser, Lisa A. Patrican, Elizabeth Dobson, Elizabeth L. Buckles.
Hepatitis and enteritis caused by a novel herpesvirus in two monitor lizards (Varanus spp.). Jennifer M. Hughes-Hanks, Susan K. Schommer, William J. Mitchell, Daniel P. Shaw.
Pseudoangiomatous squamous cell carcinoma in the oral cavity of a dog. Tim Cushing, Sandra Barnard, Rebekah Fleis, Rachel Peters.
Polyglucosan inclusions (Lafora bodies) in a gray-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus). Les J. Gabor, Mukesh Srivastava.
Lipid-rich carcinoma in the mammary gland of a Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus). Hisashi Yoshimura, Norie Kimura, Rei Nakahira, Masaki Michishita, Kozo Ohkusu-Tsukada, Kimimasa Takahashi.
Localized pleural mesothelioma causing cranial vena cava syndrome in a dog. Luciano Espino, Sonia Vazquez, Daniel Faílde, Andres Barreiro, Natalia Miño, Ana Goicoa.
Plasma and brain cholinesterase in methomyl-intoxicated wild pigeons (Columba livia f. domestica). David Villar, Dubel Balvin, Carlos Giraldo, Miguel Motas, Marta Olivera.
A gastric neuroendocrine carcinoma expressing somatostatin in a bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps). Jeremiah A. Lyons, Shelley J. Newman, Cheryl B. Greenacre, John Dunlap.
An outbreak of Canine coronavirus in puppies in a Greek kennel. Vasileios Ntafis, Viviana Mari, Stefania Danika, Eftychia Fragkiadaki, Canio Buonavoglia.
A retrospective study of disease in captive kangaroos from Oklahoma State University, 1995–2009. Adam W. Stern.
An intra-abdominal malignant mesenchymoma associated with non-absorbable sutures in a ferret (Mustela putorius furo). Claudio Petterino, Marco Bedin, Marta Vascellari, Franco Mutinelli, Alessandra Ratto.
Association
of vt1c with verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli from goats and sheep. Pilar Horcajo, Gustavo Domínguez-Bernal,
Ricardo De
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Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic
Investigation
Volume 22, Number 3 May
2010
Table of Contents
FULL SCIENTIFIC
REPORTS
Evaluation of diagnostic tests for Johne’s disease (Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis) in New Zealand dairy cows. Solis Norton, Wesley O. Johnson, Geoff Jones, Cord Heuer.
Antigenic categorization of contemporary H3N2 Swine influenza virus isolates using a high-throughput serum neutralization assay. Ben M. Hause, Tracy A. Oleson, Russell F. Bey, Douglas L. Stine, Randy R. Simonson.
Experimental infection of pigs with Border disease virus isolated from Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica). Oscar Cabezón, Rosa Rosell, Marina Sibila, Santiago Lavín, Ignasi Marco, Joaquim Segalés.
Comparison of genotypic and phenotypic characterization methods for Pasteurella multocida isolates from fatal cases of bovine respiratory disease. Jared D. Taylor, Robert W. Fulton, S. Mady Dabo, Terry W. Lehenbauer, Anthony W. Confer.
Jellyfish as vectors of bacterial disease for farmed salmon (Salmo salar). Hugh W. Ferguson, Christian M.J. Delannoy, Stephen Hay, James Nicolson, David Sutherland and Margaret Crumlish .
Optimized processing of fine-needle lymph node biopsies for automated immunostaining. Adam D. Aulbach, Cheryl L. Swenson, Matti Kiupel.
Immunohistochemical investigation of PNL2 reactivity of canine melanocytic neoplasms and comparison with Melan A. Chiara Giudice, Ceciliani Fabrizio, Marco Rondena, Stefanello Damiano, Grieco Valeria.
C-reactive protein as a prognostic indicator in dogs with acute abdomen syndrome. Angelica M. Galezowski, Elisabeth C. R. Snead, Beverly A. Kidney, Marion L. Jackson.
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Single-step multiplex conventional and real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assays for simultaneous detection and subtype differentiation of Influenza A virus subtypes in swine. Malliga M. Nagarajan, Geneviève Simard, Diane Longtin, Carole Simard.
Identification of atypical scrapie in Canadian sheep. Gordon B. Mitchell, Katherine I. O’Rourke, Noel P. Harrington, Andrei Soutyrine, Marion M. Simmons, Sandor Dudas, Dongyue Zhuang, Hubert Laude, Aru Balachandran.
Development of a peptide-based immunochromatographic strip for differentiation of serotype O Foot-and-mouth disease virus infected from vaccinated pigs. Gaiping Zhang, Suzhen Yang, Jifei Yang, Songlin Qiao, Xuannian Wang, Dong Zhao, Xuewu Li, Ruiguang Deng, Aimin Zhi, Leiming You, Sujun Chai, Man Teng.
Development of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of antibody against Caprine arthritis encephalitis virus using recombinant protein of the precursor of the major core protein, p55gag. Misako Konishi, Takehisa Yamamoto, Takako Shimada, Hiroaki Shirafuji, Ken-ichiro Kameyama, Hiroshi Sentsui, Kenji Murakami.
Isolation and partial sequencing of Equid herpesvirus 5 from a horse in Iceland. Lilja Thorsteinsdóttir, Einar G. Torfason, Sigurbjörg Torsteinsdóttir, Vilhjálmur Svansson.
Molecular detection of autosomal dominant feline polycystic kidney disease by multiplex amplification refractory mutation system polymerase chain reaction. Ya-Jane Lee, Hsin-Yu Chen, Min-Liang Wong, Wei-Li Hsu.
Improvement and optimization of a multiplex real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection and typing of Vesicular stomatitis virus. Kate Hole, Lauro Velazques-Salinas, Alfonso Clavijo.
Amplification of the second internal transcribed spacer ribosomal DNA of individual trichostrongylid nematode larvae by nested polymerase chain reaction. Kathrin A. Sim, Bryanne Hoar, Susan J. Kutz, Neil B. Chilton.
Flow cytometric analysis of peripheral blood and tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells in dogs with oral malignant melanoma. Makiko Tominaga, Yutaka Horiuchi, Mika Ichikawa, Masao Yamashita, Kumiko Okano, Yuri Jikumaru, Yoko Nariai, Tsuyoshi Kadosawa.
CASE REPORTS
An outbreak of lethal toxoplasmosis in pigs in the Gansu province of China. Xuerui Li, Yanhua Wang, Fenggang Yu, Tongxiang Li, Delin Zhang.
A case of generalized bovine tuberculosis in a sheep. Cinzia Marianelli, Noemi Cifani, Maria Teresa Capucchio, Michele Fiasconaro, Miriam Russo, Francesco La Mancusa, Paolo Pasquali, Vincenzo Di Marco.
Sudden death associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in an alpaca (Llama pacos). William G. Van Alstine, Ikki Mitsui.
Cottontail rabbit papillomavirus in Langerhans cells in Sylvilagus spp. Cristina M. Weiner, Matthew D. Rosenbaum, Karen Fox, Gary Mason, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, D. N. Rao Veeramachaneni, Sue Vandewoude.
Uterine endometrial polyp with severe hemorrhage and cystic endometrial hyperplasia–pyometra complex in a dog. Sanjeev Gumber, Nora Springer, Nobuko Wakamatsu.
Cystic echinococcosis due to Echinococcus equinus in a horse from southern Germany. Andreas Blutke, Dietmar Hamel, Marion Hüttner, Heidrun Gehlen, Thomas Romig, Kurt Pfister, Walter Hermanns.
Gastrointestinal leiomyosarcoma in an Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus). Carol Bradford, Ryan Jennings, José Ramos-Vara.
Lethal ricin intoxication in two adult dogs: toxicologic and histopathologic findings. Stefan Roels, Vera Coopman, Pascal Vanhaelen, Jan Cordonnier.
Malignant B-cell lymphoma with Mott cell differentiation in a ferret (Mustela putorius furo). Aradhana Gupta, Sanjeev Gumber, Rodney Schnellbacher, Rudy W. Bauer, Stephen D. Gaunt.
Urinary bladder agenesis in an alpaca (Vicugna pacos) cria. Raffaele Melidone, Nicola M. A. Parry, Alisha Gruntman.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug–associated renal papillary necrosis in a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Adam W. Stern, Jerry W. Ritchey, Brittany Hall, Cornelia J. Ketz-Riley, Suzanne G. Genova.
Congenital cervical bronchogenic cyst in a calf. Jae Y. Lee, In H. Yoon, Seong W. Cho, Seong M. Jeong, Chang S. Park, Myung C. Kim.
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In the next issue: Accepted manuscripts to be published in JVDI 22-4 (July 2010)