Endometritis: Diagnostic Tools for Infectious Endometritis

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  • Detection of infectious endometritis is challenging.

  • No single diagnostic test is capable of detecting all cases of infectious endometritis.

  • A guarded swab and cytology brush can be used as initial screening diagnostics to be analyzed by microbial culture and cytologic evaluation diagnosis of infectious endometritis.

  • If results from the initial screening testing are negative for mares with clinical signs suggestive of infectious endometritis, additional samples collected by small-volume lavage or

Summary

Detection of infectious endometritis, while challenging in certain cases, usually can be easily diagnosed or ruled out using a sample from a guarded swab and cytology brush, small volume lavage, or uterine biopsy. These samples are routinely submitted for microbial culture and cytologic evaluation. However, there is not a gold standard diagnostic sample or analysis of the sample that is quick to perform, is inexpensive, and returns rapid results.

In a clinical setting, an option for screening

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