West Nile virus (WNV) is an important zoonotic flavivirus responsible for mild fever to severe,
lethal neuroinvasive disease in humans, horses, birds, and other wildlife species. Since its …

Simple Summary Bacterial infections continue to cause ongoing health problems in the
global equine industry, resulting in substantial loss of valuable economic contributions …

Aims: To develop and evaluate a TaqMan‐based internal amplification control (IAC) that can
be used as DNA in real‐time PCR (qPCR) or as RNA in reverse transcription real‐time PCR …

Reasons for performing study Diarrhoea caused by infectious agents is common in foals but
there is no comprehensive molecular work‐up of the relative prevalence of common agents …

The prevalence and epidemiology of important viral (equine influenza virus [EIV], equine
herpesvirus type 1 [EHV‐1] and EHV‐4) and bacterial (Streptococcus equi subspecies equi) …

Digeneans are endoparasitic flatworms with complex life cycles and distinct life stages that
parasitize different host species. Some digenean species harbour bacterial endosymbionts …

Equine coronavirus (ECoV) is a Betacoronavirus recently associated clinically and
epidemiologically with emerging outbreaks of pyrogenic, enteric, and/or neurologic disease …

Featuring contributions from specialists in related research areas, this book presents expert
summaries on state-of-the-art diagnostic approaches for major animal viral pathogens, with …

Influenza is a well-known and ancient disease. In fact, a disease resembling influenza was
described by Hippocrates in 412 BC. Yet hardly a month goes by without a new headline …

Actively shedding healthy horses have been indicated as a possible source of respiratory
pathogen outbreak, transmission, and spread. Using nasal swabs from clinically healthy …