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Packiam said the mission was special because of the agent and sample type. Army photo by Joseph Nieves, USAMRIID Public Affairs. Army team contributed to an investigation into the cause of death of a Red Panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) and the findings will ultimately help to protect the endangered species. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases on Fort Detrick, Maryland. The USAMRIID’s genomics team extracted the DNA from FFPE brain sections and performed sequencing and identified the protozoa to the species level, said Packiam, who earned his doctoral degree in Microbiology and Immunology from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. The USAMRIID’s pathology team conducted transmission electron microscopy studies on Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded (FFPE) tissue from the Red Panda’s brain in an effort to identify and speciate the protozoa in the brain tissue. Learning the specific genus and species of pathogens that affect Red Pandas will help conservation medicine at the wildlife domestic animal interface and wildlife human interface." “Their primary threats are habitat loss and degradation, human interference and poaching. "Red Pandas are endangered and legally protected in India, Bhutan, China, Nepal and Myanmar,” said Dr. Neel Aziz, a veterinary pathologist at NZCBI on the investigation. Facemire from the USAMRIID Department of Pathology and Dr. Kugelman and Raina Kumar from the Center for Genomics Dr. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), worked with Maj.

Mathanraj Packiam, PhD, from the 1st Area Medical Laboratory and U.S. The findings will ultimately help to protect the endangered species. Army medical team contributed to an investigation into the cause of death of a Red Panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI).

Army medical team contributed to an investigation into the cause of death of a Red Panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and the findings will ultimately help to protect the endangered species.