Grants awarded to study equine pigeon fever

A Equus caballus amongst Pigeon Fever. © University of Florida

Two grants convey been awarded to report equine dove fever, too known equally dryland distemper.

The affliction is caused yesteryear the bacterial organism Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis. It is considered endemic inwards California in addition to another western U.S. states.

Infection results inwards large abscesses typically inwards the pectoral percentage of horses, simply inwards other sites equally well. Internal abscesses, if they form, assay fatal inwards virtually forty per cent of cases.

The organism that causes dove fever tin alive for months to years inwards the soil in addition to it may infect the Equus caballus through a injure or broken skin.

Flies tin transmit the organism from the environs to horses.

There is no commercial vaccine.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica has awarded 2 $US25,000 grants that volition fund inquiry into the disease.

The grants volition become to Roberta Pollock, a biological scientific discipline professor at Occidental College inwards Los Angeles, in addition to Allison Stewart, a professor of equine internal medicine at Auburn University inwards Alabama.

 

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