Veterinary diagnostic testing -- Basic techniques and procedures -- Point-of-care testing -- Test performance -- Enzymes -- Kidney function tests -- Carbohydrates -- Lipids -- Blood gases -- Electrolytes -- Miscellaneous solutes -- Cardiac troponin -- Vitamin and mineral assessment -- Toxicologic diagnostics -- Therapeutic drug monitorings -- Red blood cells -- Leukocytes -- Platelets -- Blood proteins and acute phase proteins -- Clotting times (aPTT and PT) -- Antithrombin -- Fibrin and fibrinogen degradation products (FDPs) -- Coagulation factors -- Equine infectious anemia virus -- Equine influenza virus -- Alpha-herpesviruses (EHV-1, EHV-4) -- Equine rhinitis viruses (ERAV, ERBV) -- Interpretation of testing for common mosquito transmitted diseases : West Nile Virus and eastern and western equine encephalitis -- Streptococcus equi ss equi -- Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis -- Neorickettisa risticii -- Anaplasma phagocytophilum -- Lawsonia intracellularis -- Borrelia burgdorferi -- Clostridium difficile -- Leptospira spp. -- Fungal pathogens -- Sarcocystis neurona and Neospora hughesi -- Babesia caballi and Theileria equi -- Assessment of vaccination status and susceptibility to infection -- Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia -- Equine neonatal isoerythrolysis -- Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia -- Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia -- Cellular immunity -- Immunoglobulins -- Equine blood groups and factors -- Bacteriology and mycology testing -- Antimicrobial susceptibility testing -- Parasite control strategies -- Molecular diagnostics for infectious pathogens -- Equine genetic testing -- Genetic tests for equine coat color -- Peritoneal fluid -- Respiratory secretions -- Pleural fluid -- Urine analysis -- Synovial fluid -- Cerebrospinal fluid -- Laboratory testing for endocrine and metabolic disorders -- Endocrine testing for reproductive conditions in horses -- Foaling predictor tests.