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EHV as a cause of respiratory disease

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Pusterla N.
In: BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018 by British Equine Veterinary Association
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SEP 15, 2018
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Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) and EHV-4 are doublestranded DNA a-herpesviruses, with EHV-4 being considered one of the leading respiratory viruses associated with upper airway infections. Following a short incubation period, infected horses develop fever, lethargy, anorexia, mandibular lymphadenopathy and profuse serous nasal discharge that later becomes mucopurulent. A dry cough secondary to rhinotracheitis is occasionally observed but is not a consistent feature of the disease. Contemporary information on the frequency of EHV-4 detection in 3,028 horses with acute onset of fever and respiratory signs showed that 12.3% of them tested qPCR-positive for EHV4 [1] ...

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Pusterla, N. (2020) “EHV as a cause of respiratory disease”, BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/beva/beva-annual-congress-birmingham-2018/ehv-as-a-cause-of-respiratory-disease (Accessed: 14 September 2024).

Affiliation of the authors at the time of publication

Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA.

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  • Pusterla N.

    DVM PhD Dipl ACVIM
    Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis
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