All Veterinary Lab Tests with Sample Details

RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Leptospira RT-PCR

Leptospira RT-PCR is a test that looks for the genetic material (DNA) of Leptospira, the bacteria that cause leptospirosis, in the blood or urine of dogs, cats, cows and buffaloes. The chance of finding the germ is higher when the sample is taken before antibiotics are started.

Urine or whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Urine or whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Neospora caninum RT-PCR

Neospora caninum RT-PCR looks for the DNA of the Neospora parasite in blood or tissue. It is commonly used to look into abortion in cows and buffaloes, and nerve and muscle disease in puppies.

EDTA blood or tissue (for example an aborted calf)

Sample: EDTA blood or tissue (for example an aborted calf)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Cryptosporidium RT-PCR

Cryptosporidium RT-PCR looks for the DNA of Cryptosporidium, a very small gut parasite, in faeces. It can help your vet find a cause of diarrhoea in calves, dogs and cats, and the parasite can also infect people.

Faeces

Sample: Faeces
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Salmonella RT-PCR

Salmonella RT-PCR looks for the DNA of Salmonella bacteria in faeces or a swab. It can help your vet check whether Salmonella may be behind diarrhoea or fever in dogs, cats, cows and buffaloes. Salmonella can also infect people.

Faeces or swab

Sample: Faeces or swab
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

FMD Virus RT-PCR

FMD Virus RT-PCR is a test that looks for the genetic material (RNA) of foot-and-mouth disease virus in samples from blisters or the mouth of cows and buffaloes. A vet takes the sample, and owners should tell their vet or the animal husbandry department about suspected cases.

Vesicular fluid, epithelium, probang or swab

Sample: Vesicular fluid, epithelium, probang or swab
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Lumpy Skin Disease Virus (LSDV) RT-PCR

Lumpy Skin Disease Virus (LSDV) RT-PCR is a test that looks for the DNA of lumpy skin disease virus in skin lumps, scabs, swabs or blood of cows and buffaloes. It is commonly used to help confirm lumpy skin disease.

Skin nodule, scab, swab or EDTA blood

Sample: Skin nodule, scab, swab or EDTA blood
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

BVD Virus RT-PCR

BVD Virus RT-PCR is a test that looks for the genetic material (RNA) of bovine viral diarrhoea virus in serum, blood or an ear notch from cows and buffaloes. It can find animals with a current infection and persistently infected (PI) animals that spread the virus.

Serum, EDTA blood or ear notch

Sample: Serum, EDTA blood or ear notch
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Bluetongue Virus RT-PCR

Bluetongue RT-PCR looks for the genetic material (RNA) of bluetongue virus in a blood sample from cows and buffaloes. It can help your vet confirm infection, including in animals that look healthy.

Whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

IBR (BoHV-1) RT-PCR

IBR RT-PCR looks for the DNA of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1), the cause of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, in a nasal swab, semen or tissue. It can help your vet confirm IBR in cows, buffaloes and breeding bulls.

Nasal swab, semen or tissue

Sample: Nasal swab, semen or tissue
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Theileria annulata RT-PCR

Theileria annulata RT-PCR is a blood test that looks for the DNA of the tick-borne parasite that causes tropical theileriosis in cows and buffaloes. It can find much smaller amounts of the parasite than a blood smear, including in carrier animals that look healthy.

Whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Babesia bigemina / bovis RT-PCR

Babesia RT-PCR looks for the DNA of Babesia bigemina and Babesia bovis in a blood sample. It can help your vet confirm babesiosis, or redwater, a tick fever of cows and buffaloes, even when few parasites are in the blood.

Whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Anaplasma marginale RT-PCR

Anaplasma marginale RT-PCR looks for the DNA of Anaplasma marginale, a tick-borne bacterium that lives in red blood cells, in a blood sample. It can help your vet confirm anaplasmosis, a cause of anaemia in cows and buffaloes.

Whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Bovine Tick Fever RT-PCR Panel (Theileria, Babesia & Anaplasma)

The Bovine Tick Fever RT-PCR Panel is a blood test that looks for the main tick-borne blood infections of cows and buffaloes in one sample. It typically covers Theileria, Babesia and Anaplasma, and the exact list is confirmed when you book.

Whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (Pasteurella multocida) RT-PCR

HS RT-PCR is a test that looks for the DNA of Pasteurella multocida, the germ behind haemorrhagic septicaemia (HS, called galghotu in Hindi), a fast and often fatal disease of cows and buffaloes. It can help a vet confirm HS from blood, nasal swabs or tissue.

Whole blood, nasal swab or tissue

Sample: Whole blood, nasal swab or tissue
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Black Quarter (Clostridium chauvoei) RT-PCR

Black quarter (BQ) RT-PCR looks for the DNA of Clostridium chauvoei in affected muscle or a swab. It can help your vet confirm black quarter, a fast and often fatal muscle infection of young cattle and buffaloes.

Affected muscle or swab

Sample: Affected muscle or swab
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Bovine Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) RT-PCR

Bovine TB RT-PCR is a test that looks for the DNA of the tuberculosis germ in nasal swabs, milk or tissue from cows and buffaloes. It can help detect animals that are passing the germ, but a negative result does not rule TB out.

Nasal swab, milk or tissue

Sample: Nasal swab, milk or tissue
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Johne's Disease (MAP) RT-PCR - Faeces

Johne's disease RT-PCR is a dung test that looks for the DNA of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), the germ behind Johne's disease in cows and buffaloes. Animals pass the germ off and on, so one negative result does not rule infection out.

Faeces

Sample: Faeces
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Brucella abortus / melitensis RT-PCR

Brucella RT-PCR is a test that looks for the DNA of Brucella abortus or Brucella melitensis, the germs that cause brucellosis, in milk, vaginal discharge, aborted material or blood from cows and buffaloes. It can help confirm brucellosis as a cause of abortion.

Milk, vaginal swab, tissue or blood

Sample: Milk, vaginal swab, tissue or blood
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Trypanosoma evansi (Surra) RT-PCR

Trypanosoma evansi RT-PCR is a blood test that looks for the DNA of the parasite that causes surra in cows, buffaloes and dogs. It can find low-level infections that a blood smear can miss.

Whole blood (EDTA)

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA)
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Coxiella burnetii (Q Fever) RT-PCR

Coxiella burnetii RT-PCR looks for the DNA of the bacterium that causes Q fever in milk, a vaginal swab or placenta. It can help your vet look into abortion in cows and buffaloes, and Q fever can also infect people.

Milk, vaginal swab or placenta

Sample: Milk, vaginal swab or placenta
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Bovine Respiratory Disease RT-PCR Panel

The Bovine Respiratory Disease RT-PCR Panel is a swab test that looks for the genetic material of common pneumonia germs, both viruses and bacteria, in cows and buffaloes. It typically covers several germs at once, and the exact list is confirmed when you book.

Nasal or deep nasopharyngeal swab

Sample: Nasal or deep nasopharyngeal swab
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

Calf Diarrhoea RT-PCR Panel

The Calf Diarrhoea RT-PCR Panel is a dung test that looks for the common germs behind scours in cow and buffalo calves. It typically covers rotavirus, coronavirus, Cryptosporidium, E. coli K99 and Salmonella, and the exact list is confirmed when you book.

Faeces

Sample: Faeces
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests

A2 Beta-casein Genotyping (A1 / A2 Milk Gene Test)

A2 beta-casein genotyping is a DNA test that shows whether a cow or buffalo carries the A1 or A2 form of the beta-casein milk protein gene. It is a gene test, not a disease test, and is of interest to farmers who sell A2 milk.

Whole blood (EDTA) or hair root

Sample: Whole blood (EDTA) or hair root
Report time: Confirmed when you book

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RT-PCR / Molecular Tests tests

Leptospira RT-PCR

Neospora caninum RT-PCR

Cryptosporidium RT-PCR

Salmonella RT-PCR

FMD Virus RT-PCR

Lumpy Skin Disease Virus (LSDV) RT-PCR

BVD Virus RT-PCR

Bluetongue Virus RT-PCR

IBR (BoHV-1) RT-PCR

Theileria annulata RT-PCR

Babesia bigemina / bovis RT-PCR

Anaplasma marginale RT-PCR

Bovine Tick Fever RT-PCR Panel (Theileria, Babesia & Anaplasma)

Haemorrhagic Septicaemia (Pasteurella multocida) RT-PCR

Black Quarter (Clostridium chauvoei) RT-PCR

Bovine Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) RT-PCR

Johne's Disease (MAP) RT-PCR - Faeces

Brucella abortus / melitensis RT-PCR

Trypanosoma evansi (Surra) RT-PCR

Coxiella burnetii (Q Fever) RT-PCR

Bovine Respiratory Disease RT-PCR Panel

Calf Diarrhoea RT-PCR Panel

A2 Beta-casein Genotyping (A1 / A2 Milk Gene Test)

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