UK DIAGNOSTIC LAB NEWS From the Director’s Desk Craig Carter, DVM PhD Dipl. ACVPM
UK Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UKVDL) Lexington, KY
From everyone here at the UKVDL, happy fiscal year 2022 to you!
Each new fiscal year brings the challenge for the UKVDL to decide about possible increases in fees--no fun at all--yet as we all know, very necessary in today’s business climate. After consulting with the UKVDL Ad- visory Committee, UKVDL section leaders, faculty, business office and the Office of the State Veterinarian, we have gained approval to increase fees on 29 individual tests projected to yield about 4% in additional fee income effective July 1, 2021. Te good news is this our smallest increase over the last several years. Te rises this year are designed to cover projected inflation in medical supplies, reagents, and needed equipment. Te new test fees are currently displayed on our web site home page (see the big orange button). All fee changes will be reflected in the formal web site test listing on July 1.
www.vdl.uky.edu
In our spring article, I reported an outbreak of idiopathic diarrhea syndrome in young foals around
the Bluegrass region. Dr. Emma Adam, professor of internal medicine and surgery in the Department of Veterinary Science, did an outstanding job of acquiring specimens from affected farms for testing at UK- VDL. We were puzzled that several rounds of routine diagnostic testing were unable to identify a definitive etiological diagnosis. Te UKVDL worked closely with the Gluck Equine Research Institute and conducted some advanced diagnostics on the specimens. Tis led to the identification of a novel Rotavirus which has never been seen in very young foals. Tis explained why our existing testing methods could not identify the virus and why the currently available commercial vaccine was not effective. Please follow this link for the story:
https://news.ca.uky.edu/article/uk-gluck-center-and-vdl-preliminarily-identify-novel-rotavirus
Dr. Erdal Erol, Head, Diagnostic Microbiology at UKVDL, is excited to report that the LMU cooperative teaching agreement funding is en- abling our laboratory to fund a New Methods Laboratory (NML). Te NML will be in 1000 sq ft of fully renovated vacant laboratory space at UKVDL. A three-year pilot project has been designed to develop and test Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and metagenomics methods to help identify potential new pathogens that are causing diseases in animals. Te UKVDL is currently recruiting a post-doctoral scholar with NGS and metagenomics training and experience as part of the project.
It is hoped that within
three years, the NML will enable UKVDL to offer new advanced fee-based tests to our clients and becoming self-sustaining.
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