American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians

08/26/2024

Here is a preview of the Table of Contents of our Special Issue on Lagomorph Disease Investigations, coming in September!

05/28/2024

The MAY 2024 issue is out and contains a special section on aquatic animal health and disease, with guest editors Eileen E. Henderson (CAHFS, San Bernardino branch), and Heindrich Snyman (University of Guelph, Canada). "...there is a significant need for veterinarians and diagnosticians within the field of aquatic animal medicine. We hope that this special section on aquatic animal health and disease will be helpful as we highlight several novel/emerging pathogens, new detection assays, and pathology within a wide range of aquatic species."
JVDI 36(3): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/vdia/36/3

07/07/2023

The JULY issue is online and features our new cover! Check out Dr. Grant Maxie's editorial on Personalizing Science—Who Did What When?, as well as a wide variety of topics: PM exams of equids with enterotyphlocolitis, a POC immunoassay for detection of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia antibodies in dogs, detection of bacteria/fungi in cat hair, congenital cardiac malformations in goats, multiple endocrine neoplasia in a sheep, and much more. We hope you enjoy it!
JVDI 35(4): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/vdia/35/4

04/10/2023

The April AAVLD newsletter is out! https://myemail.constantcontact.com/AAVLD-Latest-News-for-You.html?soid=1111382958528&aid=LZ4j6gtMM2Y

02/24/2023

February JVDI IN FOCUS. Our focus this month is an article appearing in JVDI’s March issue, “Immunohistochemical analysis of expression of VEGFR2, KIT, PDGFR-β, and CDK4 in canine urothelial carcinoma” by Laura C. Setyo, Shannon L. Donahoe, Patrick L. Shearer, Penghao Wang, Mark B. Krockenberger.
J Vet Diagn Invest 2023;35(2). https://journals.sagepub.com/.../10.1177/10406387221146247

01/03/2023

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023 AAVLD members. I hope you enjoyed a great holiday season and that you found some downtime from your busy professional activities. On behalf of the AAVLD leaders and staff, I wish to thank you for your Professional engagement with AAVLD; your organization that works diligently to advance the discipline of veterinary diagnostic laboratory science. Your work touches so many lives… healthy animals are a vital component of a healthy planet. From pets, to wildlife, to food security… your work makes a difference!

So, THANK YOU again and we all look forward to working together another year in 2023!

David Zeman, Executive Director
Reda Ozuna, Executive Business Partner
Grant Maxie, Editor in Chief JVDI
Holly Farrell, Managing Editor JVDI
Pat Lukens, Quality Manager Accreditation Committee
Kaylin Taylor, Meeting Planner Consultant

12/15/2022

Our November focus is an article in JVDI’s September issue, “Second round of an interlaboratory comparison of SARS-CoV2 molecular detection assays used by 45 veterinary diagnostic laboratories in the United States” by Kaiping Deng, Steffen Uhlig, Laura B. Goodman, Hon S. Ip, Mary Lea Killian, Sarah M. Nemser, Jodie Ulaszek, Shannon Kiener, Matthew Kmet, Kirstin Frost, Karina Hettwer, Bertrand Colson, Kapil Nichani, Anja Schlierf, Andriy Tkachenko, Mothomang Mlalazi-Oyinloye, Andrew Scott, Ravinder Reddy, Gregory H. Tyson.

J Vet Diagn Invest 2022;34(5):825–834.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/10406387221115702

12/14/2022

The January issue is out and full of recognition! We start with the AAVLD award recipients (see Dr. Francois Elvinger, the EP Pope award recipient on the cover) and conference sponsors, honoring their diligence and support in 2022, then a "Thank You" to our hardworking reviewers. An editorial from Dr. Grant Maxie is next, then a bevy of articles ranging from chickens to elephants and (almost) everything in between.

Table of contents for Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 35, 1, Jan 01, 2023

12/12/2022

Our November/December newsletter is out! Conference highlights, JVDI news, call for papers, and messages from our leadership. Check it out here: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/AAVLD-Latest-News-for-You.html?soid=1111382958528&aid=Qq1PxgVDfOo

12/12/2022

This is our most cited article in the last 3 years: Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile in animals by Scott Weese, first published 2020.01.06
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1040638719899081

10/21/2022

The November issue of JVDI is online! We start the issue with 2 letters to the editor, a review of cardiac blackleg in cattle, and then into our full scientific articles of liver atrophy in dogs, turkey coronavirus, a comparison of instruments for analysis of urine samples, then a wonderful mix of topics in our brief reports.
JVDI 34(6):

Table of contents for Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 34, 6, Nov 01, 2022

10/18/2022

Thank you to all AAVLD members that attended, presented and participated at our annual meeting in Minneapolis. It was a great successes only because of your involvement. Dr. Burrough put forth an outstanding scientific program, with a record 220 presentations and posters. Congratulations to all our award winners; to be formally announced in our next NEWSLETTER and Journal. Thank you Committee Chairs and members, and Moderators! Thank you for giving to the AAVLD Foundation. Thank your Kaylin, Reda, Sharon, Kelly and Ben for all the planning and operational details and many other office volunteers. Mark your calendars for next year at the Ga***rd National Harbor convention center (Washington DC area), October 12 – 16, 2023.



David Henry Zeman, DVM, PhD, DACVP

Executive Director

American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians

09/07/2022

The September issue of JVDI is online! We start the issue with a Review of diagnostic histologic features of cutaneous round cell neoplasms in dogs, then we explore adenoviral infection in hawks, investigate a common canine factor VII deficiency variant in dogs with unexplained bleeding on autopsy, learn about the ISU FLUture multisequence tool for swine influenza A virus, and much more.

JVDI 2022;34(5): https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/vdia/34/5