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Interpretation of equine laboratory diagnostics /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pusterla, Nicola, 1967- (Editor), Higgins, Jill, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
Subjects:
Veterinary medicine.
Veterinary clinical pathology.
Horses > Diseases.
Veterinary Medicine.
Horse Diseases > physiopathology.
Horse Diseases > diagnosis.
Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > veterinary.
Clinical Laboratory Techniques > methods.
Horses.
Table of Contents:
  • Veterinary diagnostic testing
  • Basic techniques and procedures
  • Point-of-care testing
  • Test performance
  • Enzymes
  • Kidney function tests
  • Carbohydrates
  • Lipids
  • Blood gases
  • Electrolytes
  • Miscellaneous solutes
  • Cardiac troponin
  • Vitamin and mineral assessment
  • Toxicologic diagnostics
  • Therapeutic drug monitorings
  • Red blood cells
  • Leukocytes
  • Platelets
  • Blood proteins and acute phase proteins
  • Clotting times (aPTT and PT)
  • Antithrombin
  • Fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products (FDPs)
  • Coagulation factors
  • Equine infectious anemia virus
  • Equine influenza virus
  • Alpha-herpesviruses (EHV-1, EHV-4)
  • Equine rhinitis viruses (ERAV, ERBV)
  • Interpretation of testing for common mosquito transmitted diseases : West Nile virus and Eastern and Western equine encephalitis
  • Streptococcus equi ss equi
  • Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
  • Neorickettisa risticii
  • Anaplasma phagocytophilum
  • Lawsonia intracellularis
  • Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Clostridium difficile
  • Leptospira spp.
  • Fungal pathogens
  • Sarcocystis neurona and Neospora hughesi
  • Babesia caballi and Theileria equi
  • Assessment of vaccination status and susceptibility to infection
  • Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia
  • Equine neonatal isoerythrolysis
  • -- Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia
  • Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
  • Cellular immunity
  • Immunoglobulins
  • Equine blood groups and factors
  • Bacteriology and mycology testing
  • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
  • Parasite control strategies
  • Molecular diagnostics for infectious pathogens
  • Equine genetic testing
  • Genetic tests for equine coat color
  • Peritoneal fluid
  • Respiratory secretions
  • Pleural fluid
  • Urine analysis
  • Synovial fluid
  • Cerebrospinal fluid
  • Laboratory testing for endocrine and metabolic disorders
  • Endocrine testing for reproductive conditions in horses
  • Foaling predictor tests.