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Pathology (Necropsy)

[image] This section is a modern, fully equipped,computerized, environmentally- safe, 320square metre area with adequate capacity to handle both large and small animals.Accompanying the main Necropsy suite are five additional rooms for sample processing, photography, and histology preparation. There are also two rooms with HEPA-filtered safety cabinets that may be used to examine animals or tissues with potential zoonotic or foreign animal disease agents. All specimens whether an entire animal, tissues,blood sample, or swabs, are received first by this section for evaluation by a pathologist. From Necropsy samples are often referred to other sections (e.g. bacteriology, virology, toxicology, and histology) for further testing. When all necessary tests have been completed, results are collated by the pathologist assigned to the case into a final written report that is mailed, faxed or emailed to the owner and/or the referring veterinarian.

E. Zabek, BSc, Senior Laboratory Scientist
K. Carlsen, BSc, RHT,RC, Laboratory Scientist
F. Downer,  RAHT, Laboratory Scientist