Advanced Animal Diagnostics, Inc.

Mitchell Hockett

Jasper N Pollard

Joy Parr Drach

David Alan Calderwood

Rodolfo R Rodriguez

Demetris Young

Stefano Bresolin

John Richard Sink

Tobias M Heineck

Deborah Asion

Stephen G Miggels

David Newcomb

Henry J Mack, Jr

John Groelke

Chris Paul

Robert L Cheek

Christopher G Paul

Jorge Carlos Correa

Randall Marcuson

Erik J Jensen

Reha O Azizoglu

Martha Payne

Duane Olsen

Gustavo Pena

Norah Gerow Bate

The present invention provides a method of identifying an animal for which antibiotic treatment, anti-infective treatment, probiotic treatment, immunostimulant treatment, additional monitoring and/or a separate or alternative management strategy is appropriate, comprising: a) collecting a sample from said animal; b) performing a leukocyte differential cell count on said sample; c) comparing said leukocyte differential cell count of (b) with an index of infection; and d) initiating antibiotic treatment, anti-infective treatment, probiotic treatment, immunostimulant treatment, additional monitoring and/or a separate or alternative management strategy of said animal on the basis of said comparing step.

Methods and compositions for reducing antibiotic administration to farm animals

An apparatus useful for the rapid collection of blood from a subject (e.g., a blood vessel, such as the vein, artery or capillary bed of a bovine subject) and dispensing the blood therefrom into a test or collection device. In general, the apparatus comprises: (a) a body having a chamber formed therein, said chamber having an inlet and outlet, with said chamber configured to draw blood therein; (b) a hollow barrel connected to said chamber outlet; (c) an ejector operatively associated with said barrel; (d) a hollow needle connected to said body, with said hollow needle in fluid communication with said chamber through said inlet, so that blood can be rapidly drawn into said chamber through said needle. The needle is optionally removed and blood dispensed from the body into a test or collection device by actuating the ejector.

Apparatus for rapid collection of blood from livestock

A device for detecting at least one analyte in a liquid sample generally comprises (i) a support having a chamber for receiving a biological fluid (e.g., milk) therein, wherein said chamber is an elongate chamber having a length axis; (ii) a (stationary or movable) carrier (in some embodiments in the form of an end cap, or connected to an end cap; in other embodiments in the form of an agitator in said elongate chamber).

Rapid detection of analytes in liquid samples

Sample collection device assembly

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Mitchell Hockett