Clinical advice service for Mycobacterial diseases moving online
Free resources will soon be available 24/7 for veterinary professionals
The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies’ Hospital for Small Animals is home to the only specialist clinical advice service for companion animal Mycobacterial diseases, including tuberculosis.
Professor of Feline Medicine, Danièlle Gunn-Moore, who has over 25 years of internationally recognised expertise in diagnosing and managing these cases, first established the service in 2018.
The service has now expanded to include more clinicians from our Small Animal Internal Medicine team who have a particular interest and expertise in these infections in both cats and dogs.
In the five years that the service has been operational, the number of animals helped has increased dramatically as awareness of mycobacterial disease has improved, and diagnostics have become more widely available. This is great news for affected patients as it has allowed the Hospital to dramatically improve clinical outcomes based on a wealth of experience and cases.
Online resources
As a result of the growing number of advice requests the Hospital is in the process of moving the service into an online format, so that all the information about mycobacteria, the clinical signs, diagnostics, treatment, prognosis, plus so much more, will be readily available to clinicians at the click of a button.
It will still be possible for clinicians to contact clinicians at the Hospital directly about particularly challenging or complex cases, but going forward, this will incur a small fee to allow the Hospital to fund continued research and clinical improvements in this field.
For more information, please contact companion.animalTB@ed.ac.uk
About the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies is a one-of-a-kind centre of excellence in clinical activity, teaching and research. Our purpose-built campus, set against the backdrop of the beautiful Pentland Hills Regional Park, is home to more than eight hundred staff and almost fourteen hundred students, all of whom contribute to our exceptional community ethos.
The School comprises:
The Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Systems
The Hospital for Small Animals
The Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education
We represent the largest concentration of animal science-related expertise in Europe, impacting local, regional, national and international communities in terms of economic growth, the provision of clinical services and the advancement of scientific knowledge.