Animal and Veterinary Science

Illustrated Handbook of Veterinary Clinical Pathology

Illustrated Handbook of Veterinary Clinical Pathology

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  • About the Editor
    • This book provides wide-ranging information about common clinical laboratory assays that are used to evaluate domestic mammals.
    • Provides essential, practical information for reviewing pathology commonly encountered in clinical situations.
    • This book is a helpful revision aid for those in training as well as for those in practice who are pursuing continuing education.

Clinical pathology deals with the use of laboratory methods for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Blood parameters play a critical role in diagnosis, assessing progression, and in the characterization of disease and phenotypes in clinical and research situations. The accuracy and reliability of the whole blood parameter analysis depends on identification and control or elimination of variables that may affect these results. Different blood collection and handling strategies represent source of variability that can be controlled in many instances. Basic hematological procedures such as the complete blood count are frequently conducted to help physicians and veterinarians arrive at a diagnosis and prognosis, also to evaluate treatment.
This Illustrated Handbook of Veterinary Clinical Pathology presents insight into laboratory procedures concerning to small animals, horses and cattle. It provides information on hematology, hemostasis, clinical chemistry, urinalysis, parasitology, and fecal testing with high-quality images.


The increased importance of molecular diagnostics means that diagnostic pathologists need to understand basic principles of diagnostic test validation and accuracy, as well as the strengths and weakness of individual assays. For their part, molecular biologists who are willing to work on natural diseases can use diagnostic pathologists as a bridge to spontaneous outbreaks. Vibrant long-term investigative/experimental partnerships can be forged between molecular biologists and diagnostic pathologists, as occurred in bovine neosporosis. It helps when diagnostic pathologists understand what academic collaborators in the basic sciences need when they accept the challenge of working on an emerging disease: extramural grants, ideas for graduate students, veterinary input, and proof from the field that the problem matters.


This Illustrated Handbook of Veterinary Clinical Pathology is devoted to all aspects of veterinary laboratory diagnostic science, including clinical pathology, epidemiology, immunology, laboratory information management, molecular biology, parasitology, public health, toxicology, and virology.