Topics in Companion Animal Medicine
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 199-208, November 2009

Infectious Disease Diagnostic Assays

  • Michael R. Lappin, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Internal Medicine)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to: Michael R. Lappin, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, The Kenneth W. Smith Professor in Small Animal Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1678

Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO USA

Dogs and cats are commonly exposed to infectious disease agents. The following article is an update on the most common infectious disease assays used in small animal practice. In some situations, results of pathogen-specific molecular diagnostic assays can be used to assist the practicing veterinarian in the management of patients with infectious diseases. However, with some infectious disease agents, the assays are positive in healthy and ill animals and can be falsely negative and so the predictive values of the assays vary.

Keywords: infectious diseases, assay, polymerase chain reaction, antibody response

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 This document was adapted in part from Lappin MR: Laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases, in Nelson RW, Couto CG (eds): Small Animal Internal Medicine. St Louis, Mosby-Elsevier, 2009, pp 1281-1290.1

PII: S1938-9736(09)00076-2

doi:10.1053/j.tcam.2009.07.004

Topics in Companion Animal Medicine
Volume 24, Issue 4 , Pages 199-208, November 2009

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