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Additional Campus Affiliations
Clinical Associate Professor, Veterinary Diagnostic Lab
Clinical Associate Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Affiliate, Illinois Natural History Survey
Recent Publications
Daleo, M. J., & Allender, M. C. (2025). Developing and validating a multiplex hydrolysis probe-based quantitative PCR assay for the detection of four pathogens in chelonians. Journal of Virological Methods, 332, Article 115077. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2024.115077
Davidson, A., Kendall, M. W., Ryan, M., Ladez, K., Bradley, S., Lionetto, C., Graser, W., Glowacki, G., Thompson, D., King, R. B., Golba, C. K., Moorhead, K., Adamovicz, L., & Allender, M. C. (2025). Hematology, Plasma Biochemistry, Protein Electrophoresis, and Pathogen Surveillance in Headstarted and Wild-Reared Populations of Blanding’s Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Three Northern Illinois, USA, Counties. Journal of wildlife diseases, 61(1), 30-45. https://doi.org/10.7589/JWD-D-23-00194
Liszka, N. C., Adamovicz, L., Moorhead, K. A., Daleo, M. J., Grochowski, K., & Allender, M. C. (2025). Evaluating the Efficacy of Disinfectant Methods against Emydomyces testavorans, a Fungus Associated with Shell Disease in Freshwater Aquatic Turtles. Journal of wildlife diseases, 61(1), 234-240. https://doi.org/10.7589/JWD-D-24-00094
Singh, N., Miller, M. R., Nemser, S. M., Tkachenko, A., Uhlig, S., Frost, K., Hettwer, K., Ulaszek, J., Kmet, M., Wang, L., Allender, M. C., & Reddy, R. (2025). Proficiency test of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant detection in diagnostics samples by veterinary diagnostic laboratories. Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 30(1), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-024-01622-w
Daleo, M. J., Adamovicz, L. A., & Allender, M. C. (2024). Development and analytical characteristics of a quantitative real-time PCR assay for detection of spheniscid alphaherpesvirus 1 in penguins. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, 36(2), 187-191. https://doi.org/10.1177/10406387241228869