Discover the best way to interpret tick panel results and the utility of thromboprophylaxis in patients with immune-mediated disease in these two highlights from the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum in New Orleans, held May 30 through June 2,2012. Tick panels, or vector-borne disease panels, help to identify patients with tick-borne illness. But they have also likely led to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of disease. In her presentation "Use and misuse of diagnostic panels in canine vector-borne disease testing," Linda Kidd, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, described the benefits of and drawbacks to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and serologic testing.
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