Contributor: Janina A. Krumbeck, PhD

Janina A. Krumbeck, PhD

Janina Krumbeck is the director of MiDOG LLC and is leading the efforts to bring novel diagnostic tools to veterinarians to improve the diagnosis of infectious diseases in companion animals. Using molecular DNA sequencing to understand the animal microbiome, Dr. Krumbeck has published several peer-reviewed manuscripts on the microbiome of pets in health and disease. She earned her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in cell and molecular biology with an emphasis on microbial gastrointestinal ecology. Dr. Krumbeck has been studying the interaction between microbes and their hosts for over 10 years in order to understand how they specifically affect health and disease…

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The Importance of Next-Generation Sequencing in Avian Veterinary Medicine

Effective treatment of diseases requires accurate diagnose, and infectious diseases in avian medicine present special diagnostic challenges. Molecular diagnostic tools, such as DNA sequencing, are available to aid the urgent medical need to detect and identify all culprits that cause infections. Next-generation DNA sequencing offers the ability to diagnose infections using microbial DNA as the analyte, thus bypassing culture testing along with its deficiencies. This article briefly explains this useful laboratory technique as well as its applications in avian medicine…