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Sale Price and Race Performance in Horses Previously Diagnosed with Lawsoni intracellularis Infection

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Frazer M.L.
In: AAEP Annual Convention - Las Vegas, 2009 by American Association of Equine Practitioners
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DEC 09, 2009
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1. Introduction
Although treated horses typically survive equine proliferative enteropathy (EPE), the long-term effects of the disease on the horse are unknown. The goal of this retrospective study is to evaluate how horses infected with Lawsonia intracellularis (LI) compared with non-infected horses after resolution of the disease.

2. Materials and Methods
Medical records of Thoroughbred horses diagnosed with LI infection between January 2002 and January 2008 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Kentucky were reviewed. Each horse included in the study had a clinical presentation characteristic for LI infection and hypoalbuminemia. Each horse included also tested positive for LI infection through fecal polymerase chain reaction, serum immunoperoxidase monolayer assay (IPMA), or both. The sale and race records from these horses were compared with the average sale and race records of all progeny by the same sire as the affected horse. [...]

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Frazer, M. L. (2009) “Sale Price and Race Performance in Horses Previously Diagnosed with Lawsoni intracellularis Infection”, AAEP Annual Convention - Las Vegas, 2009. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/aaep/aaep-annual-convention-las-vegas-2009/sale-price-and-race-performance-horses-previously-diagnosed-lawsoni-intracellularis-infection (Accessed: 30 November 2023).

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