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Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated effort by physicians, veterinarians, animal caretakers and agricultural producers to preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobial drugs.

The Society of Toxicology has named Tombros Early Career Professor Andrew Patterson of Penn State as the recipient of its 2021 Achievement Award, recognizing his significant contributions to the field of toxicology within 15 years of obtaining the highest earned degree.

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 – 10:03am Screen Shot 2021-02-09 at 9.59.36 AM.png Rob Swanda and Irma Fernandez Students’ Viral Videos Educate about Vaccines By Katya Hrichak Biomedical and biological sciences doctoral candidate Rob Swanda immediately understood how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines work. His non-scientist parents, on the other hand, did not. Rob Swanda Swanda answered his parents’ questions, […]

New research from North Carolina State University reveals that probiotic Lactobacillus bacteria use enzymes situationally to manipulate bile acids and promote their own survival in the gut. These findings further elucidate the complicated relationship between bile acids and gut bacteria and could eventually enable researchers to design lactobacilli with therapeutic properties, thereby engineering a healthier human gut […]

CLIA certification is underway to support University Park campus testing, ability to send results directly to individuals

For two decades, veterinary scientist, Dr. Emily Jenkins has been studying parasites and vector-borne diseases that cause illness in animals and people — and much of that work has been done in Canada’s North.

“It’s a top priority in human and veterinary diagnostic labs,” said Keith Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin veterinary diagnostic lab, which has been running COVID tests on farmed mink and people, operating from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. to keep up. Outbreaks on European mink ranches demonstrated the risks. If the virus managed to establish […]

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Zimba is a 7-year-old African lion who lives at The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. He came to the CSU James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital because he wasn’t eating well and seemed to have a pain in his neck. Dr. Miranda Sadar of the hospital’s Avian, Exotic, and Zoological Medicine service oversaw his […]

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