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.