This was last year after Denise's post:
Dr. Flanagan is the owner of Studio City Animal Hospital, he said they have not submitted a sample of any kind for bearded dragon AV to be sent out for testing. He spoke to all of his employees and said none of his employees pulled a sample for bearded dragon AV to be sent out. Dr. Flanagan is also the reptile specialist..he said his hospital has not taken a sample for this test period and had never been asked to, but if he were that he would send the sample to U of FL. Their email address:
scah@aol.com
Dr. Flanagan said Denise is not a client, she is not in the database, he called in Darren the hospital manager to go back through records and she was not a client.
Another poster from that old thread Shannon from Bar None Reptiles was the person who thought CA Avian might do AV testing not Denise, Denise never mentioned this.
However, it was researched...CA Avian said that they do not do bearded dragon AV testing at their facility. They have never even received a sample if they did it would have to be sent to their outsource lab which is Veterinary Molecular Diagnostics in Ohio (
www.vmd.com) Dr. Wellahan (assoc. of U of FL) did his inhouse research for the 2007 symposium here and no Denise did not test here. Sarah at VMD said she had not received any samples from outside Ohio for bearded dragon AV, nothing from CA Avian. VMD is a lab that is fully set up to receive samples for PCR testing at this time.
At the time Denise posted her results, the only PCR lab operating and accepting outside samples was U of FL.