AAEP Publishes Lawsonia intracellularis Guidelines
Edited Press Release
January 31, 2023
These new guidelines will help veterinarians diagnose and treat equine proliferative enteropathy.
These new guidelines will help veterinarians diagnose and treat equine proliferative enteropathy.
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Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
Officials reported diseases including African horse sickness, equine influenze, strangles, EHV-1, EIA, and more.
Confirmed diseases include influenza, EHV, strangles, nocardioform placentitis, piroplasmosis, EIA, and more.
Confirmed diseases include equine herpesvirus, West Nile virus, African horse sickness, strangles, influenza, and more.
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Diseases reported include African horse sickness, influenza, EHV, EIA, rabies, and more.
Confirmed diseases include vesicular stomatitis, EHV, influenza, Hendra virus, equine infectious anemia, and more.
Confirmed diseases include vesicular stomatitis, herpesvirus, influenza, Getah virus, and strangles, among others.
Study findings included that colts were at a higher risk than fillies for developing disease, and foals weaned after August were at lower risk for developing EPE than those weaned earlier.
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Protect your foal from three important causes of young horse illness: Rhodococcus equi, equine proliferative enteropathy, and adrenal insufficiency.
According to a March University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UKVDL) bulletin, the lab is seeing a statistically significant increase in positive Lawsonia intracellularis test results as compared to recent years.
Page’s work at UK has mainly focused on Lawsonia intracellularis, a bacterium causing a disease primarily of young horses, weanlings, and yearlings.
Researchers are observing an increasing trend of positive cases submitted in 2013 as compared to recent years.
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