February 2021 - Davis_members

One week left to sign up for next Tuesday's virtual day-seminar on Bovine Viral Diarrhea!
by Bruce Williams Feb. 9, 2021

Feb. 9, 2021

It's a disease that continues to be of major import to all forms of bovine practice, and whose epidemiology, pathogenesis, treatment and prevention continues to evolve rapidly over time. You don't want to miss this seminar! Full day webinar Registration fee: $50 USD Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z0x9ukUkTeOFNWv8Vvmx8g?fbclid=I… 7-9 am**: Bovine viral diarrhea virus. Frank van der Meer, University of Calgary 9-9:30 am: Break 9:30-10:30 am: Clinical aspect of bovine viral diarrhea. Eugene Janzen, University of Calgary 10:30-11:30 am: Pathology of bovine viral diarrhea. Part 1. Ted Clark, University of Calgary 11:30-12:30 pm: Long break 12:30-1:30 pm: Pathology of bovine viral diarrhea. Part 2. Ted Clark, University of Calgary 1:30-2:30 pm: Control of bovine viral diarrhea. Part 1. Paul Walz, Auburn University 2:30-3 pm: Break 3-4 pm: Control of bovine viral diarrhea. Part 2. Paul Walz, Auburn University 4-5 pm: General discussion. Frank van der Meer, Eugene Janzen, Ted Clark, Paul Walz Learning objectives: Frank van der Meer: What is Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus and how does it behave in its natural hosts What is the clinical presentation of BVD and discuss the diagnostic options What is the current status of BVDV eradication and what are the opportunities for North America Ted Clark: Learning objectives for my presentation on the pathologic findings of BVD: 1. Recognizing the lesions of primarily transient infections utilizing good herd histories, gross lesions and selection of tissues for histopathology and immunohistochemistry (IHC). 2. Stressing the importance of IHC relative to the histopathologic lesions to gain confidence in your final diagnosis and / or comments in your final reports. 3. If present, vasculitis and perivasculitis in select tissues are hallmark features of transient BVD infections, at least in beef feedlot cattle of Western Canada. Paul H. Walz At the completion of this program, the learner will be able to: 1. Identify optimal testing methods for BVDV persistent infection and interpret test results. 2. Explain the merits of modified-live and killed viral vaccines in BVDV control and determine where these vaccines can provide the optimal response. 3. Discuss biocontainment and biosecurity principles as they relate to disease and infection control for BVDV. *-This seminar is preapproved by the ACVP Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Committee for 4 credits -This program has been approved for 8 hours of continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval. **: all times in PST

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Davis Thompson Foundation Newsletter -February 2021 issue
by Francisco A. Uzal Feb. 1, 2021

Feb. 1, 2021

Dear all Welcome to the February issue of the Davis-Thompson Foundation newsletter, with the compliments of our great managing editors: Stephanie Shrader and Javier Asin. In this issue of the newsletter, you will find a heartfelt welcome to our incoming President, Dr Jey Koehler. Jey will take over her role as president officially on March 2001, but she is, and has been for a while, already hard at work helping with countless activities in the Foundation. While COVID vaccination is starting everywhere, and we hope that we can go back to offering at least some of our teaching activities on a face-to-face mode, we are still planning and offering our regular virtual activities. In this issue, you will also find the Foundation's new calendar for the first semester of 2021 (and a bit more). As always, our courses and seminars are reaching thousands of colleagues around the world, and they come at no cost or low cost and with great CE credits. Our General Pathology Review Course is been given this week to an unusually large audience by an outstanding group of organizers and faculty. If you missed it this week, you can always watch, for a reduced fee, the rebroadcasted version for several weeks to come. Looking forward to seeing you at one or more of our upcoming seminars. Paco Uzal Davis/Thompson Foundation CEO Francisco A. Uzal, DVM, MSc, PhD, Dipl. ACVP Professor of Veterinary Diagnostic Pathology Branch Chief California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab School of Veterinary Medicine University of California, Davis 105 W Central Ave. San Bernardino, CA 92408 Ph 909-383-4287 Fax 909-884-5980 E-mail fauzal(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:fauzal@ucdavis.edu>

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Diagnostic Exercise #159 January AS 2021
by claudio barros Feb. 1, 2021

Feb. 1, 2021

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Diagnostic Exercise #159 February QS 2021
by claudio barros Feb. 1, 2021

Feb. 1, 2021

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