Lyme Disease: Clinical Signs in Horses
Eric Lockwood Swinebroad, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM
July 18, 2018
Dr. Eric Swinebroad gives an overview of Lyme disease’s potential clinical signs.
Dr. Eric Swinebroad gives an overview of Lyme disease’s potential clinical signs.
Lyme disease is notoriously difficult to diagnose and has (or might not have) a myriad of vague (or not-so-vague) clinical signs in horses. Learn about this tick-borne disease and get your questions answered during our live Q&A.
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