PathoSense

20/11/2025

Beyond Guesswork: Why single-pathogen testing is a serious headache for swine vets. 🤯

Respiratory and enteric issues rarely have a simple cause. You're constantly solving for complex viral and bacterial co-infections—often with incomplete data.

Stop wasting time and budget on limited assays! Join PathoSense specialists Dr. Sebastiaan Theuns and Dr. Rosalie Swimberghe on 27 November to see how one test can give you the complete diagnostic picture for your most challenging swine cases. 🧬

What’s in it for you?

See the technology that identifies co-infections simultaneously.

Gain insights from demanding real-world swine cases presented by the experts.

Get the 'helicopter view' needed to move beyond guesswork.

Live Webinar Details:

Hosts: Dr. Sebastiaan Theuns & Dr. Rosalie Swimberghe

📅 Date: 27 November

⏰ Time: 19h - 20h CET

Ready to solve your most challenging cases?

Register now! https://buff.ly/cYz6FMM

19/11/2025

🐔 Stop Guessing, Start Diagnosing: Poultry Case Roundup
Diagnosis shouldn't be a guessing game. Get an insightful look at what's really driving flock health issues with accurate, targeted testing.

Take a look at these interesting cases:

Case 1: 🐔 Chickens with muscle stomach lesions
Moderate to high levels of Gallivirus and Avian orthoreovirus (Reovirus) were identified in the tissue, guiding effective treatment strategies.

Case 2: 🦆 Duck herd growing apart
This herd showed high levels of Duck hepatitis B virus and Escherichia coli, requiring a two-pronged approach.

Case 3: 💀 Chickens dying at high rates
The high dropout rate was linked to medium levels of Fusobacterium, Escherichia sp., and Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), allowing for precise intervention.

PathoSense gets you past the clinical signs and straight to the root cause! 🎯

Stop wasting time and start implementing targeted treatment plans. Order your PathoSense Sampling Kit today! https://buff.ly/Px11jNg

19/11/2025

Still wondering how viral whole genome sequencing can help you? ✋🏼 Stop doubting. Viral genomes are tiny and diverse, from 1.5kb circo to 150kb herpes, making them a huge challenge.
In our upcoming webinar, we'll show why identifying mutations , recombination, and reassortment is critical for epidemiology and biotech.

Register today! 👇
https://hubs.la/Q03TXG0D0

18/11/2025

🎙️ New Podcast Episode about Exotic Animals with guest Dr. Tom Hellebuyck 🐍🦎🐢

How do you diagnose disease in a species that evolved to hide everything?

In this essential episode, we sit down with Dr. Tom Hellebuyck, a leading expert in exotic animal medicine and Head of the Exotic Animals Clinic at Ghent University. Dr. Hellebuyck shares the reality of reptile pathology, moving past classic texts to confront emerging global threats.

Listen now! 🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1V5kY9JkfLnrX6PNKYZ9X8?si=cd31e76ac08f47b5

17/11/2025

When standard protocols fail, it's time to dig deeper 🧐

This 40-cat URI outbreak had multiple pathogens , but treatments weren't working. Read our new blog article to see the diagnostic pivot that revealed the true primary culprit.

🐱 Link to blog article: https://blog.pathosense.com/pathosense-news-and-articles/solving-refractory-feline-upper-refractory-infection-a-diagnostic-deep-dive

14/11/2025

🔬 Beyond the Basics: Diagnosing Refractory Feline Upper Respiratory Infection
Tired of seeing the same feline URI case walk back through the door?

Refractory FURI demands a sophisticated diagnostic approach. Our professional, insightful guide cuts through the noise to detail the advanced steps needed to identify atypical pathogens, coinfections, and complex underlying conditions.

Stop the cycle of relapse. It's time to leverage high-value diagnostics for permanent resolution.

Read the full blog article now to master the comprehensive diagnostic roadmap for solving refractory FURI! 💡🐈
https://buff.ly/0HrXRze

For Vets: When feline URI treatment fails, what's next? Explore a 40-cat outbreak case study that pivots from FHV to Mycoplasma for resolution.

14/11/2025

Getting viral sequence data is one thing. Knowing how to analyze it is the real game-changer. 🧬

Join our webinar where we will walk through our bioinformatics pipeline: from de novo assembly and polishing to variant calling , recombination analysis , and phylogenetics. Get the full picture, not just fragmented data.

Save your spot! 👇
https://hubs.la/Q03T9f-B0

12/11/2025

Soon ➡️ 🎙️ New Podcast Episode about Exotic Animals with guest Dr. Tom Hellebuyck 🐍🦎🐢

Reptiles are master minimalists when it comes to expressing illness. 🦎 Our guest, Dr. Tom Hellebuyck, breaks down the core challenge of exotic animal diagnostics:

"Classically in reptiles, these animals often show very vague symptoms. We mostly have to rely on reduced activity, anorexia. And then as a veterinarian, you still have to try to make a diagnosis."

Witty, insightful, and absolutely not fluffy—this episode is the strategic deep dive your exotics practice needs.

The full episode is coming soon to Spotify! Catch up on all previous episodes and subscribe to our Pathogens in the Spotlight podcast today. ▶️ https://buff.ly/QMD6JuR

12/11/2025

🔬 Stop Guessing, Start Diagnosing!

Complex cases? Skip the guesswork. Our assay delivers the clarity you need to save lives. Here are three recent breakthroughs solved by the PathoSense assay:

Case 1: Sudden Death of Litter of Young Puppies 💔 Rapid demise in a litter was confirmed by Thoracic Fluid analysis as Canine alphaherpesvirus 1 (Cahv-1).

Case 2: Impounded Maine C***s with Infection 🐈 Persistent respiratory issues in Maine C***s were solved by the PathoSense Dx test, identifying Mycoplasma felis and enabling targeted treatment.

Case 3: Several Nests of Puppies Dying at Breeder 🐾 Multiple puppy deaths were traced by the PathoSense assay to a deadly mixed infection, featuring high loads of Canine parvovirus (CPV) alongside significant bacterial co-infections.

Know the Pathogen. Know the Solution.

👉 Order your PathoSense assay sampling kits today!
https://buff.ly/Px11jNg

05/11/2025

Complex presentations in the calf shed require advanced surveillance, not assumptions. PathoSense peels back the layers on common calf diseases to provide actionable results.

Take a look at these challenging cases:

Case 1: 💩 Enteric Problems in a Young Calf
Rotavirus A was detected at high levels alongside Escherichia sp. and Streptococcus sp., identifying the complex viral and bacterial causes of the reduced appetite and watery diarrhea.

Case 2: 🐮 Calves with Diarrhea
Beyond the usual suspects, precision diagnostics detected Nebovirus and Norovirus GIII—two members of the Caliciviridae family—along with Astrovirus. Stopping these multi-viral outbreaks requires data this deep.

Case 3: 🤒 Calf with Fever and a Cough
This respiratory case wasn't just one pathogen. The BALF sample revealed several different respiratory players, including Bovine coronavirus, Mycoplasma species, and even Bovine Papular Stomatitis Virus (BPSV), demanding a comprehensive, targeted treatment plan.

Stop guessing, start diagnosing. Precision diagnostics make all the difference in managing these complex, often co-infected, bovine cases. 💡

Order your PathoSense Sampling Kit today!
https://www.pathosense.com/pathosense-dx-your-country-0

05/11/2025

🎤 Excited to announce our new webinar!

Our CEO, Dr. Sebastiaan Theuns, is teaming up with our bioinformatician, Sieglinde Coppens, to dive into "Tiny viral genomes". They’ll cover it all: from untargeted metagenomics for virus discovery to in-depth variant calling. Learn how to get meaningful data from the most complex samples. 🤓

📅 Live Webinar Date: 9th of December ⏰ Time: 12h30 - 13h30 CET

Want to learn more about sequencing viral genomes? Sign up now! 👇
https://hubs.la/Q03RMDFn0

05/11/2025

🎂 5 YEARS OF PATHOSENSE! 🚀

How it started: 2 founders in a university lab with an idea (and a prototype swab that may have involved pantyhose... true story).

How it's going: A team of 10 in our own state-of-the-art sequencing facility, a patented sampling kit, and a cloud platform helping vets get answers for all animal species!

It's been 5 years of incredible growth. We've scaled our team, our tech (hello, PromethION!), and most importantly, our coffee machine. 😉

We are so proud of this journey and so grateful for our amazing team and community. Watch the video to see our 5-year evolution!