This manual has been designed to cover the laboratory techniques that are useful for keeping track of the health status of cattle, pets and wildlife with the help of clinical samples. The tests and their interpretations provide important information that can assist in directing the care or treatment of animals.A veterinary clinical pathologist analyses the data in light of the animal’s anamnesis and makes recommendations on the diagnosis and, if necessary, further tests.

Veterinary clinical pathology is a specialty of veterinary pathology that examines blood, body fluids, secretions, and biopsy specimens to diagnose and monitor disease disorders and also foranalyzing chemical, morphologic and immunologic abnormalities in these specimens. To validate a diagnosis, monitor therapy and assessment of prognosis, a range of laboratory techniques and microscopic investigations are done in the field of hematology, urinalysis,cytopathology and clinical biochemistry.

This scientific text, which includes the most basic, yet crucial, procedures for laboratory analysis, protocols, and staining techniques, as well as advantages, disadvantages, and interpretation for each laboratory procedure, may be useful to undergraduate and graduate students, academics, and field veterinarians dealing with laboratory workthus supporting the disease diagnosis and treatment.