Poultry Health Services Laboratory (PHSL)
Faculty
Contact Information
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Dr. Michael P. Martin, DVM, MPVM, ACPV
Assistant Professor, Poultry Health Management
Laboratory phone: 919.513.6574
Office phone: 919.513.6330
Cell phone: 919.218.5143
E-mail: michael_martin@ncsu.edu
Laboratory Staff
Paula Jay, Supervisor
Laboratory phone: 919.513.6574
E-mail: paula_jay@ncsu.edu
Downloadable Information
Fee Schedule (PDF)
Sample Submission Form (Word) / (PDF)
Please phone laboratory or email Paula Jay prior to submission of samples
Poultry Health Services Laboratory
The Poultry Health Services Laboratory (PHSL) is important in the day-to-day operations of our Poultry Health Management team. The lab is critical to the success of our group’s mission regarding extension and engagement, research, and teaching.
The PHSL is dedicated to the support of the poultry industry and provides pertinent diagnostics to evaluate avian health issues. The laboratory provides a wide range of diagnostic services directly to the poultry industry including serology, microbiology, fecal evaluation, and histopathology. The PHSL also provides diagnostic services that support the clinical work of the Poultry Health Management (PHM) team. Our PHM team makes well over 100 field visits per year to a wide range of sites including broilers, turkeys, and layers at the breeder, hatchery, feed mill, grow out, and processing levels.
The PHSL is integrally involved with our research program and has been essential to our work. This work includes evaluation of broiler breeder health issues including investigation of Impaired Mobility Syndrome (often referred to as Calcium Tetany) and Vertebral Osteoarthritis (epidemic spinal abscess in males) caused by Enterococcus cecorum. The PHSL has also been instrumental in our evaluation of Flip-Over Syndrome in turkey poults and evaluating health and microbial flora of growing turkey flocks based on specific management factors. A study on ovarian cancer is also supported in part by the PHSL.
The PHSL is integral to our educational program as well. With the mentorship of Paula Jay, students have ability to develop appropriate sample handling techniques, conduct their own diagnostics, and gain experience in interpretation and application of diagnostic data. The lab is used extensively during our senior veterinary rotations as well as numerous other veterinary student training opportunities throughout our curriculum.
Additionally, the PHSL provides support for other teaching, extension and research activities for multiple groups. These groups include other teams at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NCSU, other veterinary colleges across the country, Triangle Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic, and the NC Museum of Natural Science. Recently, the PHSL has been providing diagnostic support for the evaluation of Salmonellosis in songbirds and pets that predate on them in conjunction with the Triangle Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic, the North Carolina Department of Agriculture Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System, and local private practitioners such as Bowman Animal Hospital.
Paula Jay
Medical Technologist, ASCP
Poultry Health Services Laboratory Supervisor, 1984-Present
Paula Jay has been working for North Carolina State University at
the College of Veterinary Medicine for over 25 years. Paula has
been tremendously valuable to the success of our laboratory and to the success of our Poultry Health Management team. Because of her efficiency, professionalism, and constant hard work the PHSL is successful today. It is because of these attributes that Paula received the Population Health and Pathobiology (PHP) Employee Service Award in 2008.
Paula has been an outstanding representative for the College
of Veterinary Medicine regarding her extension and research work. Paula has been used as a resource for local poultry laboratories to help update their protocols and procedures based on her consultation. She is also directly involved in our field and research activities based on problems currently affecting the poultry industry.
Paula has contributed greatly to the clinical instruction within PHP for veterinary students and Poultry Health Management residents. She is an integral component of the microbiology and poultry senior clinic rotations, and has been innovative and extremely helpful in developing new approaches to our curriculum. We are very fortunate to have Paula as the Supervisor for the Poultry Health Services Laboratory.
The Poultry Health Services Laboratory is located near the northwest corner of the Main CVM building, near the large animal entrance. PHSL entrance is shown in the photo above on the right.
The laboratory provides a wide range of diagnostic services directly to the poultry industry including serology, microbiology, fecal evaluation, and histopathology.