Our April focus is an open-access article appearing in the upcoming May issue: “Lesions and viral loads in racing pigeons naturally coinfected with pigeon circovirus and columbid alphaherpesvirus 1 in Australia” by Babu K. Nath, Shubhagata Das, Naomie Tidd, Tridip Das, Jade K. Forwood, Shane R. Raid.
J Vet Diagn Invest 2023;35(3). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10406387231156839
Varioius diseases affect domestic and wild lagomorphs and challenge veterinary laboratory diagnosticians regularly. Domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) are bred for different purposes including meat or fur production, laboratory research investigation, or simply as companion animals. Neoplasms, infectious diseases, and several background lesions are important conditions in this group. Wild lagomorphs, including rabbits of different genera (Oryctolagus, Sylvilagus, Brachylagus), hares/jackrabbits (Lepus spp.), and pikas (Ochotona spp.), are very common in different parts of the world and are affected regularly by outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases or exposed to environmental toxins.
We are inviting submissions to a JVDI special section on Lagomorph disease investigations to be guest edited by Drs. Javier Asin, CAHFS, UC Davis; Denise Imai-Leonard, Comparative Pathology Laboratory, UCDavis; and Fábio Abade dos Santos, National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV), Oeiras, Portugal.
JVDI in Focus
Our February focus 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.
