California mare positive for exotic venereal disease

Scanning electron micrographs of T. asinigenitalis MCE3.

A 17-year-old Lusitano mare from California has been confirmed positive for the venereal disease, contagious equine metritis (CEM).

Testing past times the National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed the presence of Taylorella equigenitalis, the bacterium that causes the contagious bacterial infection.

It is spread betwixt mares as well as stallions during alive breeding or artificial insemination alongside infected semen. It tin plough over the axe equally good last transmitted on contaminated breeding equipment.

The illness is non known to infect other livestock or humans.

Infected stallions create non present whatever clinical symptoms, simply infection inward mares tin plough over the axe drive fertility problems.

“Our finish is to isolate this illness as well as bound its spread equally much equally possible past times quarantining as well as treating the infected mare as well as whatever other affected animals,” California soil veterinarian, Dr Annette Jones, said.

“We convey had success inward the past times inward tracking as well as eradicating this illness as well as nosotros are confident inward the measures nosotros are taking to protect our Equus caballus population.

“Peak breeding flavor is getting nether way, as well as then nosotros encourage Equus caballus owners to operate alongside their veterinarians if they convey whatever questions or concerns.”

The California Department of Food as well as Agriculture said the mare was presented to a mortal practitioner for infertility concerns as well as samples were submitted for culture.

The mare remains nether quarantine spell existence treated for the illness alongside antibiotics.

The investigation into the Equus caballus contacts made past times the positive mare is nether way. Information collected to appointment indicates that her breeding activities were limited, as well as no horses located exterior California are known to convey been exposed.

Contagious equine metritis is considered a unusual beast illness inward the United States. It was previously detected inward California inward 2009 as well as 2010 as well as apace eradicated.

There is no known human relationship betwixt the positive mare as well as whatever horses associated alongside previous US cases of the disease. Testing at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirms that this isolate does non check those of whatever other isolates from previous detections inward the US. Nor does it check whatever isolates e'er institute on post-entry CEM quarantine testing of horses entering the US from CEM-affected countries.

 

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