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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1823729" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>A full diagnostic workup on that aborted fetus & placenta - with accompanying acute & convalescent (3 wks later) serum samples from the dam would come closer to giving a diagnosis and whether it's a potential 'herd problem'. That said, over 30 years of doing diagnostic veterinary pathology, I'd say that my success rate in pinpointing a definitive cause of abortion in cattle was, at best, about 25%... but in most cases, all I got was the fetus and no other ancillary samples. </p><p>A single serum sample from the dam will give you almost no useful information. Paired with a convalescent sample, it *may* give some info, but rarely did I encounter cases where serology alone provided a diagnosis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1823729, member: 12607"] A full diagnostic workup on that aborted fetus & placenta - with accompanying acute & convalescent (3 wks later) serum samples from the dam would come closer to giving a diagnosis and whether it's a potential 'herd problem'. That said, over 30 years of doing diagnostic veterinary pathology, I'd say that my success rate in pinpointing a definitive cause of abortion in cattle was, at best, about 25%... but in most cases, all I got was the fetus and no other ancillary samples. A single serum sample from the dam will give you almost no useful information. Paired with a convalescent sample, it *may* give some info, but rarely did I encounter cases where serology alone provided a diagnosis. [/QUOTE]
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