INTAS POLIVET

Open Access
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue: 2

Blood Smear Examination-A Powerful Tool for Clinical Diagnosis

  • Author:
  • Ch. Sudha Rani Chowdary1,, Y. Chaitanya2, K. Rajesh3, K. Sai Krishna2, N. Lakshmi Rani4
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 284 to 287

1Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology

2Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine

3Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine

4Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Department of Veterinary Clinical Complex, NTR College of Veterinary Science, Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU) Gannavaram-521102 (Andhra Pradesh)

*Corresponding author. E-mail: drsudha84@gmail.com

Online published on 4 May, 2019.

Abstract

1200 Blood smears of canines and 800 of bovines were analysed via microscopic examination. The diseases diagnosed were leukemias and parasitemias. Apart from diseases, the conditions with clinical and prognostic significance recorded were regenerative shift to left, degenerative shift to left, neutrophilia, eosinophilia, lymphocytosis, toxic neutrophilia, relative thrombocytosis, relative thrombocytopenia and anaemia characteried by presence of target cells, howell jolly bodies, immature nucleated RBCs, spherocytes, anisocytes, poikilocytes, microcytes and hypochromasia.

Keywords

Anaemia, blood smear, leukemia, parasitemia