Antimicrobial selection in the neonatal foal
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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 selection in the neonatal foal and the role of passive transfer of colostral antibodies. The definition of a neonatal foal varies in the literature but for the purposes of this article the focus is on the first 12 weeks of life.
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