Equine respiratory panel

Tim Pasma, Davor Ojkic, Durda Slavic,

Animal Health Laboratory, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON. 

AHL Newsletter 2024;28(4):21.

AHL is pleased to announce a new equine respiratory panel that be available on January 1, 2025.  This panel will make it easier for equine practitioners to select appropriate tests to confirm or rule out the most important and current respiratory pathogens of horses. The panel will include testing for:

• Influenza A virus by PCR
• Equine rhinovirus A and B by PCR
• Equine adenovirus 1 by PCR
• Equid herpesviruses 1, 2, 4 and 5 by PCR
• Aerobic bacterial culture, including 1 minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) susceptibility

Any extra susceptibility testing requested on a bacterial isolate will be an additional charge.

Samples required for the test are a virus transport medium (VTM) swab and a bacterial swab or a piece of affected tissue. PCR tests can also be done on scrolls from formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) blocks. Please contact us for any questions regarding this new equine testing panel.