Book chapter
Diagnostic Medicine: The challenge of differentiating infection from disease and making sense for the veterinary clinician
Advances in Veterinary Medicine, pp.25-38
Elsevier Inc
1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/112195
PMCID: PMC7149316
PMID: 9890007
Abstract
This chapter discusses the challenge of differentiating infection from disease and making sense for the veterinary clinician. Veterinary diagnostics—like their human counterparts—are already directing efforts toward more sensitive assays, which are capable of detecting infections very early (within hours of initial infection); subclinical infections that are the result of persistent infections acquired during gestation and masked by immune tolerance; latent infections because of herpesviruses and retroviruses; and infections that pose a public health risk. The evolution of diseases and the emergence of newly recognized pathogens have placed considerable pressure on new diagnostic technologies. The newer assays assist in tracking the emerging infections, as well as linking causal association with disease to a firm cause and effect of the disease. The future of veterinary diagnostics is now. There are at least five directions to be pursued, none of which is new, but continuing to evolve as the needs mandate the detection of infection earlier and the diagnosis of disease at a manageable stage.
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- Title
- Diagnostic Medicine: The challenge of differentiating infection from disease and making sense for the veterinary clinician
- Creators
- James F Evermann - Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences and Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USAInge S Eriks - Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
- Publication Details
- Advances in Veterinary Medicine, pp.25-38
- Academic Unit
- Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Department of
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Identifiers
- 99900547683401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter