Laboratory Services

Farm Animal Parasitology


Test Description	Method	Sample	Turnaround Time (Working Days)	Accredited*	Price (excl. VAT)
Cryptosporidium	MZN staining	Faeces, 3g. minimum	3	N	£20
Ectoparasites	Microscopic examination	Skin scrape, hair, wool	3	N	£22
Fluke egg examination	Sedimentation	Faeces, 40g. minimum	3	N	£18
Fluke egg examination: composite, herd screen	Sedimentation	Faeces, 10 x individual samples from a single group, 5g. minimum each sample	3	N	£35
Lungworm larvae examination	Baermann technique	Faeces, min 10g	<5	N	£18
Worm egg and Coccidial oocyst count	McMaster	Faeces, 3g. minimum	3	N	£13
Worm egg and Coccidial oocyst count: Camelids	McMaster	Faeces, 6g. minimum	3	N	£23
Worm egg count: composite, monitoring	McMaster	Faeces, 10 x individual samples from a single group, 3g. minimum each sample	3	N	£25
Worm egg count and fluke egg examination	McMaster & Sedimentation	Faeces, 43g. minimum	3	N	£30

Microbiology (other smears may be available on request)


Test Description	Method	Sample	Turnaround Time (Working Days)	Accredited*	Price (excl. VAT)
Detection of acid alcohol fast bacilli:	MZN/Kinyoun staining	Placenta, faeces	3	N	£12.50
Brucella spp.
Chlamydophila spp.
Mycobacterium spp.

Serology/Virology (please label blood tubes individually, if appropriate)


Test Description	Method	Sample	Turnaround Time (Working Days)	Accredited*	Price (excl. VAT)
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea: Antibody	ELISA	Clotted blood, 2ml. minimum; Serum, 1ml. minimum	5	Y	£4.20
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea: Antigen	ELISA	Clotted blood, 2ml. minimum; Serum, 1ml. minimum	5	Y	£5.70

* Our laboratory is a UKAS accredited testing laboratory No. 9934. Those tests indicated with ‘Y’ above are carried out to the international standard ISO/IEC 17025:2017 (‘General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories’). This international standard for testing and calibration laboratories is a set of requirements for laboratories to show that they operate a quality management system and that we are technically competent to do the testing. Please click the link to see our current 2019 Schedule of Accreditation.