Clinical features and outcome of septic shock in dogs: 37 Cases (2008-2015).

Objectives: To describe patient characteristics of dogs with septic shock, investigate markers of disease severity, and assess treatment impact on outcome.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Single center, university veterinary teaching intensive care unit.

Effect of transportation, time of sampling, and lymphocyte numbers on gamma interferon response to Mycobacterium bovis in cattle at time of slaughter.

Adapting the gamma interferon (IFNγ) assay for tuberculosis screening at points-of-concentration of cattle would improve global efforts to eradicate bovine tuberculosis. Two separate studies were conducted to evaluate if transportation of cattle, the time of blood collection, and total lymphocyte count affects the retention of a positive IFNγ assay result during slaughter of cattle experimentally sensitized with inactivated Mycobacterium bovis. Study 1 evaluated IFNγ assay responses to M.