Dr. Johnson is a small animal internist with a special focus in respiratory diagnostics and respiratory diseases of dogs and cats. She has a 50% clinic appointment in the VMTH and a research laboratory in Tupper Hall with capabilities for western blotting, polymerase chain reaction, microdissection, and vascular phyiosiology. Recent projects have focused on infectious and inflammatory nasal diseases of dogs and cats and respiratory endoscopy in dogs, cats, and rabbits. I would love to talk with students who have an interest in clinical medicine or in basic science research related to respiratory medicine.
Contact me at lrjohnson@ucdavis.edu.
Recent publications:
LR Johnson, TL Drazenovich, MA Herrera, ER Wisner. Results of rhinoscopy alone or in conjunction with sinuscopy in dogs with aspergillosis: 46 cases (2001-2004). Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association in press.
RC Windsor, LR Johnson, JE Sykes, TL Drazenovich, CM Leutenegger, HEV De Cock. Molecular detection of microbes in nasal biopsies of dogs with idiopathic lymphoplasmacytic rhinitis. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine in press.
LR Johnson, JE Foley, HEV De Cock, HE Clarke, DJ Maggs. Assessment of infectious organisms associated with chronic rhinosinusitis in cats, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 227(4): 579-585, 2005.
LR Johnson, HE Clarke, MJ Bannasch, HEV De Cock. Correlation of rhinoscopic signs of inflammation with histologic findings in nasal biopsy specimens of cats with and without upper respiratory tract disease. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 225(3): 395-400, 2004.
RC Windsor, LR Johnson, EJ. Herrgesell, HEV De Cock. Lymphoplasmacytic rhinitis in 37 dogs: 1997-2002. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 224(12): 1952-1957, 2004.