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

References