Strategic Laboratory Use
How to Use Hypothesis-based Laboratory Testing
Keywords:
hypotheses, Laboratory diagnosis, problem-solving, epidemiologic, herd disease investigationAbstract
Semantically speaking, "diagnosis" used in reference to microbiological and pathological findings is not what we are after in herd disease investigations. Problem solving in livestock operations requires epidemiologic diagnoses in which key determinants (critical control points) are identified. Laboratory diagnosis can be an important adjunct to problem-solving efforts, but only if used strategically to test hypotheses about key determinants.
