Past Proceedings of the CAHLN-RCTLSA Annual Meetings

2021 CAHLN Proceeding




• 2021 proceeding




CAHLN Proceeding 2021

2019 CAHLN Proceeding




• 2019 proceeding




CAHLN Proceeding 2019

• 2017 proceedings

2017 CAHLN Presentation Titles and Authors

• Toluwalope Ajayi, Zvonimir Poljak, Rozita A. Dara.
  Near real-time processing, analysis, and reporting of incidence and prevalence of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and porcine deltacoronavirus in Ontario swine herds




• Christa Arsenault, Grant Maxie, Paul Innes, George Charbonneau, Chris Byra
  Overview of the Ontario Animal Health Network swine surveillance network to improve disease emergency preparedness and its linkage to the Canadian Swine Health Information Network




• Debbie Barr
  Bovine Tuberculosis in Canada




• Theresa Bernardo
  Technological trends: transforming health data into intelligence




• Andrew Brooks, Jan Shapiro

  Postmortem evaluation in cases of suspected humane transport violation




• Doug Campbell

  Using laboratory techniques to answer wildlife disease questions




• Adam Campigotto, Theresa Bernardo, Zvonimir Poljak, Elizabeth Stone, Deborah Stacey

  Determining average cat weights through the use of big data




• Marcia Chiasson, Véronique LePage, Steve Naylor

  Antimicrobial resistance in Ontario aquaculture




• Dianna Chinnery

  Mental health in the workplace: practical tools to recognize issues and help colleagues




• Matt Cochran

  From data to intelligence- AgConnect laboratory data in decision support




• Gwendolyn Conant, Margaret Stalker, Jeff L Caswell

  Canine pulmonary hyalinosis




• Josepha DeLay, Bruce Duncan, Adam Chambers

  Racehorse mortality in Ontario: postmortem procedures and results




• Todd Duffield
  Cull cows at auction and provincial slaughter plants in Ontario




• Jim Fairles, Josie Given

  Overview of a milk bacteriology QA program for veterinary clinics




• Jim Fairles

  Intake of laboratory submissions during a disease outbreak – the trials and tribulations and the need to upgrade our “new” facility




• Catherine Filejski

  One Health in action: the critical role of laboratory-based animal disease intelligence to public health




• Russell S. Fraser, Hein N. Snyman, Jutta D. Hammermueller, Ann Meyer, John S. Lumsden, Luis G. Arroyo, M. Tony Hayes, Brandon N. Lillie

  Unravelling the genetics of infectious disease susceptibility in livestock with the use of high throughput technology




• James P. Goltz, L. Robbin Lindsay

  Passive tick surveillance in New Brunswick: translating data into information and intelligence




• Sarah Gresch, Benjamin Miller, Nitipong Homwong, Douglas G. Marthaler

  Analytical verification and use of a multiplex real time RT-PCR to identify porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, transmissible gastroenteritis virus, and porcine deltacoronavirus




• Murray Hazlett, Emily Brouwer, Josepha DeLay, Amanda Mansz, Durda Slavic
  Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus meningoencephalitis and septicemia in goats




• Alexander Heim

  Mapping of the Ontario IBV outbreak




• Rachel Imai, John R. Barta

  Prevalence of potentially zoonotic and non-zoonotic parasites in domestic dogs in rural, urban and First Nations communities across Ontario, Canada




• Carl Johnson

  Bovine tuberculosis investigation in western Canada: a case study of the role of an animal health diagnostic laboratory




• Dave Kelton

  Incorporating lab data into dairy herd management: a vision




• Elijah Kiarie, Emily Kim, Haley Leung, John Barta

  Nutritional strategies for enhancing gut function in broiler chickens challenged with coccidiosis




• Paul Kozak, Pat Bell-Rogers

  From mammals and birds to bees: Adapting veterinary testing protocols for honey bee diagnostics




• Roger Maes, Patrick Bronson-Doherty, Mike Chumbley, Annabel Wise, Suzanne Kull-Mason, Vittoria Miller, Daland C. Herrmann, Carsten Schroeder

  Detection of bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) virus in ear skin tissue samples: evaluation of a combination of QIAGEN MagAttract 96 cador pathogen extraction and virotype BVDV RT-PCR-based amplification




• Emily Martin, Marina Brash, Margaret Stalker, Davor Ojkic

  Using phylogenetic analysis to examine the changing strains of infectious bronchitis virus infections in Ontario over time




• Michael Martin

  Asymmetric informatics – lessons from a decade of NAHLN messaging




• Kristen Mesires

  Evaluation of real-time PCR reagents for the identification of influenza virus RNA




• Ellie Milnes, Pauline Delnatte, Kevin May, Jennifer Ma, Frances B Jamieson, Durda Slavic, Dale Smith

  Mycobacterium epizootic in a zoo population of Chinese gliding frogs (Rhacophorus dennysi): investigation, management, and public health response




• Nicole Nemeth, Amanda MacDonald, Claire Jardine, Jeff Bowman, Evelin Rejman, John Barta, Hugh Cai

  Potential pathogens detected in wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) in Ontario




• Andrea Osborn, Harry Gardiner, Zana Dukadzinac, Archie Stewart, Ruth Tecle-Mariam

  Development of innovative surveillance methods with the community for emerging and zoonotic diseases




• Andrea Osborn, Cheryl James, Keith Murch, Francois Bedard

  The Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System achievements and opportunities




• Andrew Peregrine

  Emergence of Echinococcus multilocularis in dogs in Ontario: implications for public and wildlife health?




• Zvonimir Poljak

  Use of laboratory data for near-real time disease reporting, prediction, and understanding complex problems




• Felipe Reggeti, Nick Schrier

  Qualitative LC-MS/MS method for the detection of desmethylbromethalin in adipose tissue




• Alexandra Reid

  Mycoplasma synoviae in domestic meat-type geese




• Evelina Rog

  Navigating and leading change in a professional environment




• María C. Rosales Gerpe, Sarah K. Wootton

  Improving production of high titer lentiviral vectors for in vivo gene therapy applications




• Tanya M. Rossi, David L. Pearl, W. Glen Pyle, M. Grant Maxie, Peter A. Kavsak, Peter W. Physick-Sheard

  Analytical validation of cardiac troponin I assays for use in the horse




• Fernando Salgado-Beirman, Rachel Ouckama

  Infectious bronchitis virus: practical experience from broiler breeders in Ontario




• Joanna Sawicki, Jim Fairles

  An electronic solution for equine infectious anemia (EIA) submissions




• Courtney R. Schott, Geoffrey A. Wood

  An introduction to high-throughput immunohistochemistry




• Stacey Speagle

  Laboratory Ergonomics Training 




• Roz Stevenson, Melinda Raymond, Steve Lord, Lucy Mutharia

  Laboratory detection approaches to fish pathogen surveillance in Ontario




• Andrew Stolfi

  Injury prevention and return to work post-injury for desk- and lab-based work




• Leonardo Susta, Nancy Brochu, Marina Brash, Csaba Varga, Michele Guerin

  Ontario small poultry flock disease surveillance: year one




• Khaled Taha-abdelaziz, Douglas Hodgins, Tamiru Alkie, Wanderely Quinteiro-Filho, Alex Yitbarek, Jake Astill, Shayan Sharif

  Oral administration of PLGA-encapsulated CpG ODN and Campylobacter jejuni lysate reduces cecal colonization by C. jejuni in chickens




• Anatoliy Trokhymchuk, Musangu Ngeleka

  Routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing data generated by a public animal health diagnostic laboratory: challenges and opportunities to antimicrobial resistance surveillance




• Wendy Witbeck

  Choosing and interpreting laboratory testing in an environment of increasing technology



Pauline Zhang , Richard J. Reid-Smith, Durda Slavic, Anne E. Deckert, Patrick Boerlin

Antimicrobial resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins in Enterobacteriaceae from chickens and pigs in Canada 

• 2016 proceedings

• 2015 proceedings

• 2014 proceedings

• 2013 proceedings

2013 CAHLN Presentation Titles and Authors

• Josée Harel.
  GREMIP-CRIPA. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal
  CRIPA : Research and diagnostic




• Grant Maxie, Murray Hazlett and Josepha DeLay. Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph
  Quality assurance by and for veterinary pathologists




• Farouk El Allaki and Julie Paré. Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Validity of conclusions in population-based surveillance




• Julie Paré and Christine Power. Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, Animal Health Science Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  The role of diagnosticians in terrestrial animal disease surveillance




• Julie Paré, Véronique Parent and Farouk El Allaki. Epidemiology and Surveillance Section, Animal Health Science Division, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Estimating diagnostic sensitivity ans specificity using the published Literature – a terrestrial animal disease example-bovine brucellosis




• Jette Christensen and André Vallières. Epidemiology and Surveillance Section,Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Surveillance, scenario tree models and claim of disease freedom at the national level




• Jette Christensen, Farouk El Allaki and André Vallières. Epidemiology and Surveillance Section,Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Estimating disease freedom using scenario tree models – Canadian Notifiable Avian Influenza Surveillance System and NAI




• Maria Spinato and Kevin McLeod. Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph
  A benefit/cost financial management spreadsheet for veterinary laboratory emergency preparedness




• Matheus Costa. Western College of Veterinary Medecine, University of Saskatchewan
  Determining the gold standard ante-mortem sample type for detection of Brachyspira in pigs




• Janet Sunohara-Neilson, Éva Nagy, Susy Carman and Patricia V Turner. University of Guelph
  Development of an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of serum antibodies to leporid herpesvirus-4




• Sonia Lacouture and Marcelo Gottschalk. Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal
  Detection of Actinobaccillus pleuropneumoniae (App) serotype 1 in pigs by real-time quantitative PCR




• Flavien Ndongo Kassé. Université de Montréal
  The virulence factors of Escherichia coli isolated from uterus could be used to predict metritis in the postpartum dairy cow




• Christian Bellehumeur. Université de Montréal
  Development of a new microarray-based diagnostic tool to detect novel viral pathogens involved in potentially devastating animal diseases




• Jane Christopher Hennings. University of South Dakota
  Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV) Diagnostics




• Marcelo Gottschalk. Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal
  Update Streptococcus suis and APP

• 2012 proceedings

2012 CAHLN Presentation Titles and Authors

• CONTENT

• Soren Alexandersen and Zhidong Zhang, National Centres for Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Emerging Pathogens of Veterinary Importance: Schmallenberg Virus
• Aruna Ambagala, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Lethbridge Laboratory National Centres For Animal Disease, Lethbridge, Alberta
  User-friendlly Microarray for Porcine Respiratory Disease Complex
• Shawn Babiuk, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Sheep and Goat Pox Viral Diagnostics and Vaccine Development Collaboration
• Joan Bourque and James P. Goltz, Provincial Veterinary Laboratory,Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Fredericton, New Brunswick
  Equine Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in a New Brunswick Horse
• Chris Green, Epidemiologist, CVO/Food Safety, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
  Using Spatial Epidemiological Techniques to Support One Health Investigation of Infectious Diseases
• Tamiko Hisanaga, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Molecular and Antigenic Characterisation of Reasortant H3N2 Viruses from Turkeys with a Unique Genetic Constellation
• Marilyn Jonas, Prairie Diagnostic Services Inc.
  CAHSN: Challenges, and Opportunities
• Harold Kloeze, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Data Sharing: Positive Aspects with Regards to Federal Provincial Movement of Data
• Wayne Lees, Chief Veterinary Officer, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
  Preparing for animal emergencies: a provincial perspective
• Marsha Leith, Yohannes Berhane, Matthew Suderman, and John Pasick, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Development of a Multiplexed Fluorescent Microsphere Immunoassay for Detection of Antibodies Against Avian Influenza Virus(NP,H5 and H7) and Newcastle Disease Virus (NP)
• Mingyi Li, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canadian Science Centre for Human and Animal Health
  A novel pen-side strip test for the detection off Nipah virus in swine
• Oliver Lung, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Lethbridge Laboratory
  Microarray Detection and Typing of Livestock and Poultry Viruses
• Heather Martens and David Hunt, Agri-Food Traceability Coordinators, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
  Manitoba Premises Identification Program: Minimizing the Impact of Animal Health Emergencies
• Charles Nfon1, Anders Leung2, Greg Smith1, Carissa Embury-Hyatt1, Gary Kobinger2,3,4 and Hana Weingartl1,3
  1 National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  2 Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  3 Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  4 Department of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
  Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease In Ebola Virus-Infected Pigs
• John Pasick, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease
  International Twinning of Reference Labs and Harmonization of Diagnostics
• Richard Rusk, Medical Officer of Health, Manitoba Health
  The Influence of Zoonotic Diseases on Human Health
• Maria Spinato, Jan Shapiro, University of Guelph, Laboratory Services, Animal Health Laboratory
  Lessons learned from conducting FAD emergency exercises in the veterinary necropsy laboratory
• Jason Struthers and Trent Bollinger, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan
  What’s killing the KCCC lambs? …and what role are domestic sheep playing?
• Thang Truong, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Evaluation of Cell Substrates and the Development of RT-PCR and Real-Time RT-PCR Assays for Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR)
• Hana Weingartl, Special Pathogens Unit, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Diagnostic Developments for High Consequence Zoonotic Animal Pathogens
• Wanhong Xu, Melissa Goolia, Ming Yang, Zhidong Zhang, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Winnipeg
  Swine Vesicular Disease Empty Capsid Particles: Characterization and Its Application as an Alternative Antigen for Serological Diagnosis
• Ming Yang, Melissa Goolia, VDU/NAFAD, Canadian Food Inspection Agency
  Development of mAbs against FMDV Asia 1 and application in rapid virus detection by lateral flow strip test

• 2011 proceedings

Abstracts for CAHLN/RCTLSA,
June 5-8, 2011

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Monday, June 6, 2011

• 0900 – Toward a Canadian laboratory “Network of networks”
  Martine Dubuc




• 1100 – The role of the provincial veterinary lab in NAI outbreaks: the BC experience
  Victoria Bowes, Paul Kitching, John Robinson, Bill Cox




• 1130 – Fore-CAN project: foresight for Canadian animal health
  Shane Renwick




• 1330 – The National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN): lessons learned
  Terry F. McElwain, Barbara M. Martin




• 1430 – The role of the Animal Health Laboratory in forensic investigations
  Beverly McEwen, Margaret Stalker, Josepha DeLay, Murray Hazlett, Brent Hoff, Emily Martin




• 1600 – Molecular epidemiology to refine diagnostics in bacteriology: Does it help?
  Patrick Boerlin

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

• 0830 – Enhanced Surveillance Project, broilers – Epidemiological study of viral and bacterial pathogens in Ontario broiler chickens
  Michael Eregae*, Eric Nham*, Hind Kasab-Bachi*, Michele Guerin, Scott McEwen, Cate Dewey, Davor Ojkic, David Pearl, Andreas Beocker, Durda Slavic




• 0900 – Salmonella Enteritidis in people and poultry – cooperative outbreak investigation and management
  William Cox




• 0915 – Salmonella vaccination and serological testing in poultry
  Teresa Cereno




• 0930 – A temporal study of Salmonella serovars in breeder flocks and hatcheries in Ontario between 1998 and 2008
  Theva Sivaramalingam*, Michele T. Guerin, Scott A. McEwen, David L. Pearl, Davor Ojkic




• 0945 – Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT) control in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia
  William Cox




• 1045 – Characterization of plasmids in Clostridium perfringens type A associated with NE
  Valeria R. Parreira*, John F. Prescott




• 1100 – Feed-borne Fusarium mycotoxins induce morphologic changes in the intestine of broiler breeder pullets
  George N. Girgis, John R. Barta, Marina Brash, Trevor K. Smith




• 1115 – Detection of chicken parvovirus in broilers and broiler breeders in Ontario, Canada
  Jacqueline Fountain, Marina Brash, Laszlo Zsak, Éva Nagy




• 1130 – Genetic analysis of fowl adenovirus fiber genes
  Helena Grgić*, Davor Ojkić, Bruce Hunter, Éva Nagy




• 1145 – Development of a system to detect anti-hemagglutinin (HA) antibodies in chickens using 3 recombinant baculoviruses expressing HA
  Alexandra Elliott*, Jeffery Hodgson, Éva Nagy, Peter Krell




• 1300 – Prevalence of pathogenic and non-pathogenic Brachyspira spp. in Ontario layer flocks and identification of risk factors associated with dirty eggs
  Genet A. Medhanie*, Michele Guerin, Durda Slavic, Scott McEwen, Lloyd Weber, Babak Sanei, Leanne Cooley, Scott Houghton




• 1330 – Pyogranulomatous pleuropneumonia and mediastinitis in ferrets associated with Pseudomonas luteola
  Jorge Martínez, A. Ramis, M.L. Abarca, J.M. Martorell, A. Moya, A. Olvera, C. Juan-Sallés, A. Riera, L. Woods, Norman Cheville, S. Soto




• 1400 – Trends of methicillin-resistant coagulase-positive staphylococci in Atlantic Canada
  Matthew Saab, Jan Giles, Lorraine Lund, Robert Page, J T. McClure, C. Anne Muckle




• 1415 – Role of Clara cell secretory protein in lung inflammation
  Olivier Côté*, Mary Ellen Clark, Dorothee Bienzle




• 1430 – Neutrophil chromatin deposition in septic lesions
  Krishna Yekkala*, Tony Hayes




• 1445 – A modified skin test for diagnosis of subclinical enteric paratuberculosis in cattle
  Brandon L. Plattner, Elise Huffman, Jesse M Hostetter




• 1530 – Cysticercus ovis infection and the Canadian sheep industry: an emerging problem
  Bradley D. De Wolf*, Paula I. Menzies, Andria Q. Jones, Andrew S. Peregrine, Jocelyn T. Jansen, Jennifer MacTavish




• 1545 – Prevalence of drench failure and anthelmintic resistance in Ontario sheep flocks
  Laura Falzon*, Krishna Shakya, Paula Menzies, John VanLeeuwen, Andria Jones, Jocelyn Jansen, Jacob Avula, Andrew S. Peregrine




• 1600 – Evaluation of the zoonotic potential of Giardia duodenalis in fecal samples from dogs and cats in Ontario
  Rebeccah M. McDowall, Andrew S. Peregrine, Erin K. Leonard, Christopher Lacombe, Mary Lake, Ana R. Rebelo, Hugh Y. Cai




• 1615 – Evaluation of methods for extraction of DNA from Encephalitozoon cuniculi
  Stephanie Reabel*




• 1630 – New swine H3N2 and pandemic H1N1 2009 influenza virus reassortant in two Canadian animal populations, mink and swine
  Donald Tremblay, Véronique Allard, Jean-François Doyon, Grant J. Spearman, Josée Harel, Carl A. Gagnon




• 1645 – The changing face of pneumonia in swine: diagnostic challenges
  Beverly McEwen, Josepha DeLay, Murray Hazlett, Margaret Stalker, Susy Carman, Durda Slavic, Maria Spinato, Tony van Dreumel, Hugh Cai

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

• 0900 – Veterinary syndromic surveillance based on diagnostic test submissions to the Ontario Animal Health Laboratory
  Fernanda C. Dórea*, Catherine A. Muckle, David F. Kelton, Beverly J. McEwen, W. Bruce McNab, Javier Sanchez, Crawford W. Revie




• 0915 – Diagnosis of abortion in small ruminants in Ontario
  Murray Hazlett, Hugh Cai, Josepha DeLay, Margaret Stalker, Tony van Dreumel, Maria Spinato, Rebeccah McDowall, Ana Rita Rebelo, Patricia Bell-Rogers, Brian Binnington, Beverly McEwen, Durda Slavic, Susy Carman




• 0945 – Forensic animal investigations
  David W. Silversides, Isabelle Daneau




• 1030 – Development of an Ontario Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Detection System for Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and its application to other non-reportable diseases of swine
  Jane Carpenter, Susy Carman, Jim Fairles




• 1045 – Emergency preparedness in the necropsy laboratory
  designing an operations-based exercise
  Maria Spinato, Jan Shapiro




• 1100 – Kaizen process applied at the Diagnostic Service, Faculté de médicine vétérinaire
  Estela Cornaglia, Véronique Boyer, Jean-François Brodeur, Guy Fontaine




• 1115 – Prevalence of pathogenic Escherichia coli in production animals in Québec, Canada, between 2008 and 2010
  John M. Fairbrother, C. Desautels, É. Nadeau

• 2010 Proceedings