Reduced interferon-gamma production is associated with increased risk for intracellular bacterial infections.
Dr. Chris Sanchez reviews recent top research papers published focusing on foal health.
S. zooepidemicus is frequently isolated in the respiratory tract of weanling and yearling horses.
Confirmed diseases include contagious equine metritis, strangles, EHV, influenza, and more.
The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation approved funding of 12 new projects in 2013.
Rhodococcus equi is well known for its ability to cause severe pneumonia in young foals, but it can also cause septic arthritis (infection of joints), osteomyelitis (infection of bones), neonatal diarrhea (enterocolitis), and more.
Sun is evaluating the regulation of interferon gamma expression in foals and its role in R. equi resistance.
Many horses recover from pleuropneumonia with medical therapy, but some require surgery to prompt healing.
Understanding ailments older foals can develop and treatment options increases the patient’s survival chances.
Treatment of mares with oral gallium nitrate significantly reduced fecal concentrations of virulent R. equi but had no detectable impact on airborne concentrations, one researcher concluded.
Treatment of mares with oral gallium nitrate significantly reduced fecal concentrations of virulent R. equi.
Seven ponies have died at an equestrian center located on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte.
Without proper post-treatment management and some husbandry adjustments pneumonia can recur.
Topics covered included pleuropneumonia, equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis, and lower airway inflammation
Researchers in the Netherlands have completed further research into developing an effective vaccine for the bacteria Rhodococcus equi, which is known to cause pneumonia and other sometimes fatal infections in young foals.
There’s nothing more heart-wrenching than watching a newborn foal fight for his life.
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