A sheep disease exercise

Authors: Martinovich D
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 25, Issue 6, pp 150,158, Jun 1977
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant, Sheep
Subject Terms: Diagnostic procedures
Article class: Scientific Article

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Abstract: This simulated exercise is based on actual cases handled at Whangarei Animal Health Laboratory. It is not intended as an example of good or bad investigational technique, but is designed to provoke thought and discussion on several aspects of flock medicine including selection of specimens for laboratory examination, interpretation of laboratory results, and application of newer knowledge to the better understanding of the field-disease situation. Certain details of flock history and of advice given by the practitioner to the owner have been omitted deliberately since such details are frequently not known to the veterinarian in the laboratory. Part I consists of a series of reports from the “submitter” to the laboratory and vice versa and collectively constitutes a serial case history. Each report is followed by a number of questions. Answers to these should assess the value of the report as an aid to the diagnosis of the problem. A general discussion of the simulated problem is presented in Part II. The exercise commences with receipt by the laboratory of specimens and form AgL 47. (Note that each submission to an Animal Health Laboratory by a veterinarian must be accompanied by the form AgL 47 setting out the history and the details of the examinations requested.)…

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