Laboratory Guide
Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction (PPID) remains the most commonly diagnosed endocrinopathy in the horse. Dopaminergic neurons in the hypothalamus...
Laboratory Guide
Diagnosis of insulin dysregulation can be a real challenge in equine practice. As our understanding of the underlying disease...
Laboratory Guide
Key points This disease of young foals is characterised by a foal that is normal at birth rapidly becoming...
Laboratory Guide
(1) Skin Scraping: For the identification of burrowing mites (uncommon in horses) Using a 22 scalpel blade areas are directly...
Laboratory Guide
While a postmortem diagnosis of equine grass sickness (EGS) can often be made from samples of the ileum, in...
Laboratory Guide
Collecting a nasopharyngeal swab: Adequately restrain the horse Pass swab at least 15 cm into the horse’s nasopharynx via...
Laboratory Guide
A biopsy can be obtained under general anaesthesia or, less commonly, via flank laparotomy or laparoscopy, which may be...
Laboratory Guide
It is particularly important to rule out Equine Herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1, see HBLB Code of Practice). The whole carcass...