Caseous lymphadenitis

I am really excited about today's guest.

I just realized it has been four years since we talked about caseous lymphadenitis here on the show, and last time it was with Dr. Claire Burbick, who was also from Washington State University, and that was in episode number 88, and she talked about biosecurity testing in general.

And this is actually an extension of that talk.

We're gonna really get into the nitty-gritty here because Dr. McConnell was one of the researchers who looked at 10 years of CL test results at Washington State's diagnostic lab, which is where I personally send all of my tests.

Yeah, I'll do my best.

Now, to be fair, I have become a non-clinical vet over the last few years and am now really buried in research here at WSU in Vet Med Extension.

But basically, caseous lymphadenitis is an organism that causes abscesses, and those abscesses in small ruminants, or other animals to be fair, but typically we think of it in terms of small ruminants, can be either superficial or internal.

And so therefore, they have some production limitations, but they also can end up impacting things like meat quality or wool quality in sheep, and ultimately become problematic from the standpoint of spreading throughout a herd, throughout a flock, and possibly leading to, like I said, production losses, but also just general impacts on wellbeing.