Selective treatment strategies can combat antimicrobial resistance while protecting foals from R. equi. Read more in The Horse‘s Spring 2025 issue.
Antimicrobial-resistant infections continue to challenge veterinarians and compromise horse health. Here’s what practitioners are doing to curb it and how you can help.
Researchers are developing novel drugs as an alternative to antibiotics to improve foal health and welfare.
Use this visual guide to learn about lower respiratory problems that can affect your horse.
An equine internist explains how she makes testing decisions and interprets results.
This inflammation of the lungs most commonly affects foals, but that doesn’t mean your mature horse isn’t at risk.
Butterfly Network and The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health Care have partnered for equine pneumonia education Sept. 4-9.
Eliminate the feces of R.-equi-infected foals on the farm, which reduces the bacteria the earthworms consume.
Breeding farm managers want zero foal deaths, but at what greater cost?
Two important bacteria cause lung infections in foals; here’s how the body and your vet battle these pathogens.
Rhodococcus equi can cause significant economic losses, but researchers are still working to understand how and why it develops and how to prevent it.
Seven emerging researchers will receive awards to support clinical advances in equine medicine.
Find out how to prevent equine upper respiratory tract infections from spreading throughout your barn.
Newborn foals are easy targets for every kind of bacterium, virus, and other pathogenic organism. Here are some steps you can take to maximize your foal’s immunity from gestation to weaning.
Rhodococcus equi is the most serious cause of pneumonia in 1- to 4-month-old foals. Learn more about this potentially deadly pathogen and how to protect your foals with these resources on TheHorse.com.
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
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