VDL Manuscript Collaboration Earns Top Award

A recent NDSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory collaboration, a paper titled "Marked neurotropism and potential adaptation of H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4.b virus in naturally infected domestic cats," received the 2025 Best Paper Award from the Emerging Microbes and Infection Journal. North Dakota State University's Heidi Pecoraro and Brett Webb were co-authors of the paper. Read the paper here.

This article has been cited 36 times since it was published in December 2024 and was featured in a New York Times article.