Table 2. Syndromic groups, defined based on an evaluation of three years of diagnostic test requests.
| Syndromic group | Criteria for syndromic group creation | Number of test requests | Number of cases |
| Abortion | Clinical sign | 559 | 225 |
| Circulatory | Organ systems | 57 | 50 |
| Eyes and ears | 37 | 20 | |
| GIT | 8,733 | 2,564 | |
| Haematopoietic | 231 | 199 | |
| Hepatic | 135 | 119 | |
| Mastitis | 49,246 | 6,766 | |
| Musculoskeletal | 233 | 149 | |
| Nervous | 150 | 129 | |
| Reproductive | 857 | 192 | |
| Respiratory | 8,501 | 1,452 | |
| Skin and Tegument | 14 | 7 | |
| Systemic | 3,328 | 700 | |
| Urinary | 501 | 146 | |
| BSE* | Individual diseases with high number of testrequests | 5,306 | 158 |
| BLV | 34,468 | 3,321 | |
| BVD | 12,689 | 2,354 | |
| Johnes disease | 11,123 | 2,040 | |
| Neosporosis | 6,198 | 1,467 | |
| Clinical Pathology (hematology/biochemistry) | Other types of tests | 61,059 | 4,282 |
| Environmental samples | 655 | 58 | |
| Antimicrobial susceptibility | 140 | 33 | |
| Toxicology | 6,866 | 955 | |
| Nonspecific samples | Samples whose syndromic group could not be determined | 7,708 | 3,374 |
| Total | 218,795 | 30,760** |
GIT = Gastro-intestinal tract; BSE = Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; BLV = Bovine Leukemia Virus; BVD = Bovine Viral Diarrhea.
*
BSE test requests are large compared to counts of other test submissions that can be classified as “Nervous”.
**
The number of cases after classification is higher than the initial number of cases because multiple syndromes can be identified within a single submission.