Enhancing the Daily Routines of Equine Veterinarians using Mobile Technology: The m-Equine Case

Survey of Australian equine veterinarians evaluating their biosecurity training and perceptions and opinions about the management of the 2007 equine influenza outbreak.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the level of biosecurity training among Australian equine veterinarians and to assess their perceptions of biosecurity and infectious disease risk and their opinions about the management of the 2007 equine influenza (EI) outbreak. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. METHODS A survey was conducted among equine veterinarians attending the 2010 annual conference of the Equine ...

Equine marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells: isolation, differentiation and culture optimization

Most studies regarding the marrow-derived equine mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have mainly focusedon the cell transplantation without considering the capacity of differentiation and in vitro requirements of thecells. These concerns were investigated in the present study. Equine MSCs were isolated from the sternalmarrow aspirates and expanded through two successive subcultures. Passage-2 equine ...

Evolution in the Production and control of Equine Tetanus Antitoxin During the last 3 decades in Iran.

Isolation and molecular identification of Mycoplasma equigenitalium from equine genital tracts in northern India

Although Mycoplasma equigenitalium has been implicated in equine reproductive problems, its prevalence is largely unexplored due to the lack of specific diagnostic tests. To address this limitation, the authors developed and optimized species-specific primer pairs that target M. eguigenitalium rpoB (RNA polymerase B subunit) gene sequences. The specificity of the PCR assay developed in this stu...

Reduction of Purification Time of Polyspecific Equine F(ab´)2 Antivenom against Scorpion Envenomation

Background and Aims: In this study we improved the purification of immunoglobulins from equine antiserum raised against the venom of 6 types of scorption species. Caprylic acid (octanoic acid), a fatty acid, was found to have no effect on the activity of the enzymes pepsin, which is used in antivenom purification to digest Fc fragment of immunoglobulins to obtain F(ab´)2. Materials and Methods...