Lyme Disease Testing for Horses
Eric Lockwood Swinebroad, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM
July 20, 2018
Equine internal medicine specialist Dr. Eric Swinebroad offers an overview of testing available for Lyme disease.
Equine internal medicine specialist Dr. Eric Swinebroad offers an overview of testing available for Lyme disease.
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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