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Is the disease common?

Is infection or transmission within the shelter or community likely?

Is immediate treatment required?

Is the disease life‐threatening?

Is there a zoonotic risk?

Diagnosis of existing disease states can also protect the health and welfare of individual animals and, in the case of transmissible or zoonotic diseases, the health of the entire shelter population, both animal and human. In addition to those indications described for screening tests, when it comes to disease diagnosis, practitioners should also consider how the results of a particular diagnostic test will alter the treatment or management plan for the individual animal or the shelter population at large.