College Station and Canyon labs will be closed Thursday, November 28. Center and Gonzales labs will be closed Thursday, November 28 and Friday, November 29. Please ship samples with these hours in mind.
Detection of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) to determine pregnancy. This test is only available for domestic horses; the referral lab will not perform the test for samples from zebra or donkeys.
Detection of antibodies to Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and Western equine encephalitis (WEE) viruses using the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT). Addition of Venezuelan equine encephalitis is optional. This test is used to assess vaccine titers in horses or to test non-equine species for antibodies to EEE/WEE.
Detection of equine herpesvirus (EHV-1) and differentiation between neuropathogenic and non-neuropathogenic / respiratory / wild type strains by real time PCR.