Researchers at UofNH's New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (NHVDL) and Hubbard Center for Genome Studies may have made significant progress in better understanding a respiratory syndrome that has affected hundreds of #dogs 🐕 throughout the country and has thus far confounded veterinarians. “A finding like this is potentially pretty exciting, even though we still have to see how it develops to a place where we are comfortable saying this is a pathogen in the syndrome,” David Needle, pathology section chief at the NHVDL, says. The UNH researchers identified a small portion of the genome 🧬 of a previously uncharacterized bacteria that may be causing the illness. Cases of the illness have been reported in more than 10 states thus far, and the situation – and hunt for a solution – have garnered national attention. Symptoms of infection in dogs include a cough that can linger for several weeks, runny eyes and sneezing. There is still a lot of work to do to verify the discover...