Equine Genetics: Looking to the Future
Equine Disease Quarterly
January 2, 2015
One researcher explains why he believes a central repository is needed for equine gene expression information.
One researcher explains why he believes a central repository is needed for equine gene expression information.
Diagnosed diseases include strangles, influenza, vesicular stomatitis, hendra virus, salmonellosis, and more.
Despite all that is known, important questions still remain about wobbler syndrome.
One veterinarian shares her thoughts on what West Nile virus can teach us about exotic equine diseases.
In horses, leishmaniasis presents as nodules on the head, pinnae, scrotum, legs, and neck–the areas where sand flies commonly feed. These nodules can occur in groups or be solitary, and they often ulcerate.
Mycotoxins are harmful compounds that specific molds and fungi produce in soils, grains, and forages when moisture levels permit.
Learn how computed tomography (CT), MRI, and nuclear scintigraphy can help vets diagnose issues within horses’ bodies.
Reported diseases include African horse sickness, strangles, herpesvirus, piroplasmosis, salmonellosis, and more.
Get tips on how you and your horse can avoid contracting a tick-borne disease.
Learn how horses contract Lyme disease, what clinical signs to watch for, how to treat it, and more.
Infection of pregnant mares with pathogenic leptospires can result in abortion; stillbirth; live, nonviable foals; and, rarely, viable foals.
One veterinarian shares his thoughts on how we can mentor the horsemen and veterinarians of the future.
Reported diseases include strangles, equine herpesvirus, influenza, equine infectious anemia, and more.
The Thoroughbred foot’s relatively thin walls and sole make it more susceptible to trauma, injury, and hoof capsule distortion.
The strain has now been reported in horses in many European countries as well as in a single Canadian horse. Zoonotic infection from a horse has also been reported.
All 77,001 serum samples tested for equine infectious anemia (EIA) in Kentucky in 2013 were negative for the disease.
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