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)

      Affiliations

    • 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

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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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