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The Veterinary Record, Vol 140, Issue 15, 388-391
Copyright © 1997 by British Veterinary Association

An outbreak of respiratory disease in horses associated with Mycoplasma felis infection

J. L. N. Wood BSc, BVetMed, MSc, MRCVS1, N. Chanter BSc, PhD1, J. R. Newton BVSc, MRCVS1, M. H. Burrell BVMS, MVM, MRCVS2, D. Dugdale MA, VetMB, MRCVS3, H. M. Windsor BSc4, G. D. Windsor BSc, PhD4, S. Rosendal DVM, PhD5, and H. G. G. Townsend DVM, MSc6

1 Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, PO Box 5, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 7DW
2 Priory Veterinary Surgery, 10 Evesham Road, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9DF
3 Greenwood, Ellis and Partners, Reynolds House, High Street, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9AQ
4 Mycoplasma Experience, 1 Norbury Road, Reigate, Surrey RH2 9BY
5 Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
6 Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

Lower respiratory tract disease developed in a group of race-horses in training between two and six years of age. Disease was observed in 22 of 25 horses for which full records were available. Seroconversion to Mycoplasma felis was demonstrated by indirect haemagglutination assay in 19 of 22 paired sera and high titres (ge64) were found in convalescent sera from the three remaining horses. Evidence of respiratory viral infection was confined to seroconversions to equine herpes-virus-4 in two of the horses. Tracheal wash samples, taken from four horses with visibly increased tracheal mucopus, contained more than 104 colony forming units/ml M felis and high proportions of neutrophils. This is the first description of an outbreak of lower respiratory tract disease in horses in training associated with M felis infection.




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