10th Equine Infectious Diseases Conference Scheduled
The 10th International Equine Infectious Diseases Conference (IEIDC X) will convene April 4-8 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Several faculty and graduate students from the University of Kentucky (UK) Gluck Equine Research Center and UK Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory will present research at the conference.

The Gluck Center serves as the conference’s international headquarters. David Horohov, PhD, chair of the Department of Veterinary Science at UK, director of the Gluck Center, and Jes E. and Clementine M. Schlaikjer Endowed Chair, serves as the conference’s international chair. Gluck Center faculty members Martin Nielsen, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVL, Dipl. EVPC, assistant professor at the Gluck Center, and Peter Timoney, MVB, MS, PhD, FRCVS, Frederick Van Lennep Chair in equine veterinary medicine at the Gluck Center, are part of the international committee that oversees the scientific program. Horohov, Nielsen, and Timoney will all serve as moderators of sessions throughout the conference. Jenny Evans, MFA, interim executive director of the Gluck Equine Research Foundation and marketing/promotion specialist senior at the Gluck Center, serves as the international coordinator.

The conference kicks off with a Practitioners’ Day and is followed by a second Practitioners’ Day session and the beginning of the “full conference” with the first day of oral abstract presentations. Two-hundred and nineteen abstracts were received from 34 countries. Oral and poster presentations will focus on these 10 topics: biosecurity, diagnostics, emerging and re-emerging diseases, gastrointestinal, neurologic, other system diseases, parasitology, reproduction, respiratory, and working equids. A special session on the international movement of horses, chaired by Timoney, is also part of the schedule

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