Botulism hos svenska hästar
Botulism is a serious disease with high mortality that can affect horses. Due to this about 20-30 percent of the horses in Sweden are vaccinated against botulism. The purpose of this study was to see how common botulism is in the Swedish horse population and to se if a connection between feeding...
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SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences (until 231231)
2007
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| author | Bergold, Jenny |
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| author_facet | Bergold, Jenny |
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| description | Botulism is a serious disease with high mortality that can affect horses. Due to this about 20-30 percent of the horses in Sweden are vaccinated against botulism.
The purpose of this study was to see how common botulism is in the Swedish horse population and to se if a connection between feeding with haylage and botulism could be seen. In addition to this, the study aimed to find how common vaccination against botulism is among Swedish horses and on what grounds the diagnosis botulism is made.
Medical records of horses being diagnosed with botulism at all the major large animal hospitals in Sweden between 1995-2005 were searched. In addition to this the database where general practitioners report their cases as well as the cases with botulism reported to the insurance companies were included.
The results of this study show that only 0,03 percent of the Swedish horse population has been diagnosed with botulism during the time period this study covers. In all the cases included in this study the diagnosis was made based on clinical signs and in none of the cases verification by isolating the toxin was possible.
In all cases where forage is noted in the journals the horse has been feed haylage which indicate that there is a connection between the use of haylage and botulism.
Three horses died despite being partially vaccinated against botulism type B which indicate that a correct vaccination has to be done before the horse get any protection or that the correct diagnosis was not botulism type B. |
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| institution | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
| language | swe Inglés |
| publishDate | 2007 |
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| spelling | RepoSLU116812017-11-24T08:58:33Z Botulism hos svenska hästar Botulism in Swedish horses Bergold, Jenny botulism sjukdom hos häst foder botulismvaccin Botulism is a serious disease with high mortality that can affect horses. Due to this about 20-30 percent of the horses in Sweden are vaccinated against botulism. The purpose of this study was to see how common botulism is in the Swedish horse population and to se if a connection between feeding with haylage and botulism could be seen. In addition to this, the study aimed to find how common vaccination against botulism is among Swedish horses and on what grounds the diagnosis botulism is made. Medical records of horses being diagnosed with botulism at all the major large animal hospitals in Sweden between 1995-2005 were searched. In addition to this the database where general practitioners report their cases as well as the cases with botulism reported to the insurance companies were included. The results of this study show that only 0,03 percent of the Swedish horse population has been diagnosed with botulism during the time period this study covers. In all the cases included in this study the diagnosis was made based on clinical signs and in none of the cases verification by isolating the toxin was possible. In all cases where forage is noted in the journals the horse has been feed haylage which indicate that there is a connection between the use of haylage and botulism. Three horses died despite being partially vaccinated against botulism type B which indicate that a correct vaccination has to be done before the horse get any protection or that the correct diagnosis was not botulism type B. Botulism är en sjukdom med hög mortalitet som drabbar häst. En riskfaktor för att insjukna i botulism är utfodring med hösilage. Då hösilage är ett grovfoder som ofta används till svenska hästar är profylax i form av vaccinering relativt vanligt förekommande. Syftet med den här studien var att studera hur vanligt förekommande botulism är hos den svenska hästpopulationen samt att se om en koppling till användning av hösilage gick att finna. Ett ytterligare syfte var att finna hur stor andel av hästarna i Sverige som vaccineras mot botulism. Resultatet av denna studie talar för att risken att drabbas av botulism är väldigt låg, enbart 0,03 % av Sveriges hästpopulation har drabbats under de granskade åren. I samtliga fall som inkommit till djursjukhus har diagnosen ställts kliniskt och inte i något av de fall där diagnosen har försökt verifierats genom påvisande av toxin har man lyckats. I samtliga fall där foder finns angivet i journalen har ägaren uppgivit att patienten utfodrats med hösilage vilket talar för att en koppling finns mellan utfodring med hösilage och den kliniska misstanken botulism. Tre individer dog trots att en grundvaccinering mot botulism typ B var påbörjad vilket talar för att en fullständig vaccinering krävs innan skydd uppnås eller att orsaken inte var botulinumtoxin typ B. SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences (until 231231) 2007 L3 swe eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/11681/ |
| spellingShingle | botulism sjukdom hos häst foder botulismvaccin Bergold, Jenny Botulism hos svenska hästar |
| title | Botulism hos svenska hästar |
| title_full | Botulism hos svenska hästar |
| title_fullStr | Botulism hos svenska hästar |
| title_full_unstemmed | Botulism hos svenska hästar |
| title_short | Botulism hos svenska hästar |
| title_sort | botulism hos svenska hästar |
| topic | botulism sjukdom hos häst foder botulismvaccin |