Pigeon fever cases on rise in Texas – researchers
A scientific investigation supports anecdotal reports that dove fever is re-emerging inward the Texas Equus caballus population, according to researchers.
Texas researchers, reporting inward the latest lawsuit of the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, say the acre has seen a dramatic increment inward the pose out of clinical cases of dove fever infection inward horses.
The illness is caused past times the bacterium, Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.
Equine dove fever cases at Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratories were analyzed to hit upwards one's heed distribution as well as seasonal as well as annual trends of dove fever infection inward horses inward Texas betwixt 2005 as well as 2011. In doing so, the researchers identified high-risk areas.
Cases increased ten-fold betwixt 2005 as well as 2011, the researchers reported.
The annual cumulative incidence ranged from 9.3 to 99.5 cases per 100,000 horses at risk.
Seasonal peaks were noted inward June as well as inward December.
The query identified a high-risk expanse inward cardinal Texas. High-risk areas were equally good detected inward the panhandle as well as northern Texas.
“The epidemiological investigation supported anecdotal reports that dove fever is re-emerging inward the Texas Equus caballus population,” Barbara Szonyi as well as her beau researchers reported.
“This study provides a baseline for hereafter investigations of dove fever inward the Texas Equus caballus population as well as serves equally a reference for the illness distribution for veterinarians as well as Equus caballus owners.”
Re-emergence of Pigeon Fever (Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis) Infection inward Texas Horses: Epidemiologic Investigation of Laboratory-Diagnosed Cases
Barbara Szonyi, Amy Swinford, Alfonso Clavijo, Renata Ivanek
Journal of Equine Veterinary Science – 31 July 2013 (10.1016/j.jevs.2013.06.006)
The abstract tin endure read here.
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