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Botulism
- Clostridium botulini
- Clx: creeping
- paralysis that usually begins at the head and moves caudally (CNS signs)
- Transx: bacterial overgrowth, wound contamination
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Lyme Disease
- Borrelia burgdorferi
- Vector: deer tick
- Clx: mostly ms
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Potomac horse fever
- Neorickettsia risticii
- Seen mostly in the fall
- Clx: depression, diarrhea, fever,
- toxemia, abortion, and laminitis
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Salmonella
- Primarily GI effects
- Zoonotic
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Strangles
- Streptococcus equi
- "shipping fever"
- Transx:highly contagious, nasal secretions, inanimate objects
- Clx: upper respiratory signs
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Tetanus
- Clostridium tetani
- "lockjaw"
- Transx: infection
- commonly occurs from infected puntcure wounds
- Clx: primarily ms
- Px: toxoid
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Equine Proliferative Enteropathy
- Lawsonia intracellularis
- Clx: severe GI
- disease of foals and long yearlings
- Seasonal
- spikes in occurrence from October- Feburary
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Encephalomyelitis
- "sleeping sickness, EEE,WEE,VEE"
- Equine alphaviruses
- Transx: mosquito
- ClX: CNS
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Equine Viral Arteritis
- Arteritis virus
- Transx: Highly
- contagious, respiratory or semen transmission
- Clx: upper respiratory, abortion
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Equine infectious anemia
- Retroviridae family
- Clx: CNS signs
- Transx: horseflies
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Influenza
- Orthomyxoviridae family
- Clx: upper respiratory
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Rabies
- Enveloped ribonucleic acid rhabdovirus
- Transx: primarily through wildlife
- Clx: CNS, GI
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Rhinopneumonitis
- Respiratory, reproductive, neurologic
- Equine Herpesvirus I (EHV-1) and Equine Herpesvirus 4 (EHV-4)
- Aerosol and indirect transmission
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Rotavirus
- Seen in foals 2-4 months old.
- GI disease
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Vesicular Stomatitis
- Rhabdoviridae family
- Transx: black fly, house fly, mosquito, insects
- Can be confused with foot & mouth disease.
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West Nile
- Flaviviridae family
- Transx: mosquito bourne
- Clx: CNS
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Equine Rhinitis A Virus
- Aphthovirus
- Clx: upper and lower respiratory
- Transx: nasal secretions, aerosol
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EPM
- Sarcocystis neurona
- Transx: opossum
- Clx: CNS
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Piraplasmosis
- Babesia equi or Babesia caballi
- Tick bourne protozoal disease- RBC
- Clx: pyrexia,
- depression, anemia, thirst, and eye problems
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Canker
- Fusobacterium necrophorum or Bacteroides spp.
- moist pododermatitis
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Thrush
- Fusobacterium necrophorum
- Sulcus of the frog
- Clx/Dx: Odor, black
- discharge, and lameness
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White Line Disease
- Bacteria, fungus, or yeast (cause)
- Clx/Dx: Cheesy
- material and air pockets that pack with debris, laminitis, lameness, and black,
- foul smelling material
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Rain Rot
- Causative
- agent: Dermatophilus congolensis
- Common in spring during shedding
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Dermatophytosis
- "ringworm"
- Trichophyton, microsporum
- Highly contagious through direct and indirect contact, persists in the environment
- Primarily ventral half of body
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Core equine vaccines
- Tetanus
- EEE,WEE
- West Nile
- Rabies
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Four sites to administer IM vaccines.
- Neck
- Chest
- Rear leg- foals
- Hip
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