This useful handbook describes in detail the entire process of diagnosis, collection and sending of samples to the laboratory, the interpretation of findings, and the description of the basic laboratory techniques. It goes deeper into the knowledge of the different swine pathologies and clearly exposes the different pathologies using flow charts that will guide veterinary surgeons through the diagnostic process. At the end of each chapter there is a clinical case that completes the information offered.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction
2. Sample collection
Sampling at necropsy
Sampling of an animal population
3. Submission of samples forlaboratory diagnosis
4. Diagnostic methods
Histopathological techniques
Bacteriological techniques
Virological techniques
Molecular biology techniques
Serological techniques
Parasitological methods
5. Laboratory diagnosis ofrespiratory disorders
Introduction
Clinical examination
Pathological assessment
Differential diagnoses
Clinical case
6. Laboratory diagnosis of enteric disorders
Introduction
Clinico-pathological examination and epidemiology of enteric diseases in pigs
Differential diagnoses
Clinical case
7. Laboratory diagnosis of systemic disorders
Introduction
Clinical examination
Pathological assessment
Differential diagnoses
Clinical case
8. Laboratory diagnosis ofreproductive disorders
Introduction
Data analysis and clinical examination
Pathological assessment
Differential diagnoses
Collection of samples
Clinical case
9. Laboratory diagnosis of nervous and locomotor disorders
Introduction
Clinical examination
Pathological assessment
Differential diagnoses
Clinical case
10. Laboratory diagnosis of cutaneous disorders
Introduction
Clinical and pathological examination
Differential diagnoses
Clinical case
11. Conclusions
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