Förekomst av Lawsonia intracellularis och Brachyspira spp. hos häst i Sverige
Proliferative enteropathy (PE) caused by Lawsonia intracellularis has been reported in horses in the USA, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. Diarrhoea caused by Brachyspira antigen-containing spirochaetes has been diagnosed in a horse in Japan. The presence of Lawsonia intracellularis or Brachy...
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| Formato: | Otro |
| Lenguaje: | sueco sueco |
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2006
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| Acceso en línea: | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/11868/ |
| Sumario: | Proliferative enteropathy (PE) caused by Lawsonia intracellularis has been
reported in horses in the USA, Canada, Australia and Great Britain. Diarrhoea
caused by Brachyspira antigen-containing spirochaetes has been diagnosed in a
horse in Japan. The presence of Lawsonia intracellularis or Brachyspira spp. have
neither been investigated in healthy nor in sick horses in Sweden. The purpose of
this study was to survey the occurrence of the two bacteria in Swedish horses.
Faecal samples were gathered from 108 foals without any clinical signs of illness
in the age of four to eight months. The samples were collected from four different
stud farms. A nested PCR was used to detect Lawsonia intracellularis and culture
was used to detect the presence of Brachyspira spp. In this study neither of the
two bacteria were found. The explanations for the result might be that the bacteria
do not exist in the Swedish horse population, or that they do not exist in horses
from the examined area or that the horses did not shed a detectable number of
bacteria. |
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