Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

12/03/2025

Tis the season! Members from the KVDL joined together for the annual holiday card signing today! ✍️

11/26/2025

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Holiday hours:
Closed: Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28
Open: Saturday, November 29 (8 a.m. - noon)

11/21/2025

The November issue of Diagnostic Insights is now online! Content includes:

• Practical Uses of Bovine Genetic Sequencing at KVDL
• Rodenticide Poisoning in Companion Animals
• FedEx Discount Shipping Options
• Available: Clostridium perfringens type F testing
• and more!

November issue of Diagnostic Insights from the Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.

10/15/2025

KVDL continues to stay on the front lines of Theileria diagnostics!

A new tick appears in Kansas, but fighting it is a familiar mission for K-State. Researchers at the Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory are helping agricultural producers stay information on the Asian longhorned tick. For more information: https://bit.ly/47mB1jk

10/09/2025

Thank you to McCarty Family Farms for hosting this important training event for both AABP club members and students in the dairy production class for Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine!

10/02/2025

KVDL's Oscar Gonzalez Rosas and Jason DeFisher representing the rabies laboratory at the recent Southwest Veterinary Symposium!

09/30/2025

09/25/2025

Bats and skunks make up the majority of confirmed rabies infections in Kansas, but as we know, rabies can potentially infect all mammals.

VDL has weekly disease trend updates on our website, including new rabies positives. Find the link in our comments. ⬇️

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Bats, skunks, horses and more animals have tested positive for rabies in Kansas so far this year. Twenty positive cases of rabies have been recorded from the start of the year…

09/12/2025

Congratulations to our client, McCarty Family Farms for being chosen as a recipient of one of the prestigious World Dairy Expo Awards. Honorees will be celebrated at the expo awards banquet in October.

World Dairy Expo is proud to reveal the extraordinary individuals who have been chosen as the recipients of the esteemed 2025 Expo Recognition Awards

08/29/2025

We will be closed, Monday, September 1st to observe Labor Day! Have a great weekend, everyone!

08/27/2025

Meet Drs. Tatiana Paz, Mikkela Cabanillas, Talis Rehse and Irene Dobles — our new interns. Each will rotate through all 13 KVDL specialty sections, which provides a great foundation toward being accepted into a competitive clinical and anatomic pathology residency programs across North America.

Those specialty sections are bacteriology, histology, molecular service, molecular research and development, necropsy, next generation sequencing, parasitology, rabies, serology, toxicology and virology. Each intern spends time with the section heads learning diagnostic test result interpretation.

The Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has expanded its diagnostic medicine internship program to four interns in response to high demand. Over the course of a year, interns receive extensive clinical pathology training, provide after-hours testing support for veterinary clinicians and rotate t...

08/08/2025

Ensuring the health of livestock, companion animals and wildlife resources are primary missions at the KVDL. Our faculty and staff provide critical support for a wide range of biologic researchers and train the veterinarians, researchers and diagnosticians of tomorrow.

The Kansas Veterinary Diagnostic Lab drives $2.5 billion in economic value for the state and is set to grow with a new $128 million facility on the north end of K-State's Manhattan campus.