Neonatal Foal Diarrhea

Prevention and Outbreak Management of Foal Diarrhea

Diarrhea is among the most common clinical complaints in foals. According to the National Animal Health Monitoring System Equine ’98 study, diarrhea affected > 20% of foals within the first 6 months of age. Although diarrhea is common with enteritis(inflammation of the small intestine), diarrhea is not always associated with inflammation of the bowel. Before the veterinarian can consider a trea...

Antimicrobial selection in the neonatal foal

Infectious disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal foal with approximately 8% of foals affected by some form of infectious complication in the first 30 days of life in one recent study. Early recognition and treatment of infectious complications in the neonatal period is important to maximise outcome. The purposes of this article are to review antimicrobial sele...

Skin malformations in a neonatal foal tested homozygous positive for Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome

BACKGROUND Skin malformations that resembled manifestations of Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome were described in a variety of domestic animals during the last century as cutis hyperelastica, hyperelastosis cutis, dermatosparaxis, dermal/collagen dysplasia, dermal/cutaneous asthenia or Ehlers-Danlos-like syndrome/s. In 2007, the mutation responsible for Hereditary Equine Regional Dermal Asthenia (HERDA) ...

Immunity to Neonatal Calf Diarrhea

Genetic diversity and zoonotic potential of Cryptosporidium parvum causing foal diarrhea.

Cryptosporidium isolates from diarrheic foals in New Zealand (n = 9) were identified as C. parvum, subtyped at two polymorphic loci, and compared with human (n = 45) and bovine (n = 8) isolates. Foal C. parvum isolates were genetically diverse, markedly similar to human and bovine isolates, and carried GP60 IIaA18G3R1 alleles, indicating a zoonotic potential.