Avoid a Scare with Preventive Care
This is the ultimate goal of preventive care.
What is helping pets live longer, healthier lives?
The preferred tube when submitting Serum.
What is a White Top (non-additive)?
It is recommended to remove the serum from the serum sep tube to avoid any interference with results.
IDEXX Fecal Dx antigens detect these 5 most common intestinal parasites.
What are Hookworms, Roundworms, Whipworms, Fleatape worms, and Coccidia?
Preventive care diagnostics can help detect disease at this stage, before symptoms are present.
What is subclinical?
Research shows that even seemingly healthy dogs and cats may have clinically relevant abnormalities on preventive care lab work.
The recommended clot time before spinning a Serum separator tube.
What is 20 minutes
This diagnostic test can detect live parasitic infections in the absence of egg shedding.
What is IDEXX Fecal Antigen?
Fecal Ag is the detection of a protein associated with a live, adult parasite and is often seen even in the absence of ova.
When a parameter indicates automatic additional testing at IDEXX Reference Lab.
What is reflex testing?
Example - Protein found on UA (when sediment is inactive, a UPC is automatically preformed and included)
The additive and it's purpose in a lavender top tube.
What is EDTA anticoagulant?
All tubes have a recommended fill volume which is manufacture specific.
The time between parasitic infection and shedding eggs.
What is pre-patent period?
Whipworms have up to ~10wk pre-patent period.
According to the Human Animal Bond Research Institute, this % of people consider their pet part of their family.
What is 95%?
HABRI also found that
- 86% of pet owners will pay whatever it takes when pet needs extensive veterinary care
-59% of pet owners are willing to spend more money on their pets health when they understand the correlation between veterinary care and their emotional bond
The best place for samples to stay awaiting pickup.
What is the Refrigerator?
According to the Companion Animal Parasite Council, combining these two tests is the most sensitive and specific way to detect fecal parasites.
What is flotation by centrifugation paired with fecal antigen?
1 out of 7 young (age 1-4), seemingly healthy dogs had clinically significant abnormalities when evaluating these diagnostic tests at an annual wellness exam
What are Chem, CBC, UA?
1 in 5 (ages 1-6) seemingly healthy cats had a clinically relevant abnormality found
The number of days you have to submit portions of a bundle (urine or fecal).
What is 28 days?
We know urine and fecal samples are not always available at the time of the blood draw & submission. You will use completion codes to submit remaining portions of a bundle.
Number at which positive rate of parasite detection has increased when going from floatation only methods to IDEXX Fecal Dx with the recent addition of Flea Tapeworm & Coccidia antigen.
What is 5x?