| monitoring and investigating natural disease by veterinary pathologists in diagnostic laboratories. | many emerging diseases in animals are initially recognized by diagnostic pathologists in animal health laboratories using routine laboratory submissions, in conjunction with clinical veterinarians and wildlife biologists. familiar recent examples are chronic wasting disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, west nile encephalomyelitis in north america, and postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in pigs. the recognition of new diseases in animals requires that the curiosity of diagnosticians ... | 2010 | 20080483 |