Burkholderia mallei is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen of domestic equidae and humans that can cause severe, rapidly life-threatening pneumonic infections. Little is known regarding the role of chemokines and early cellular immune responses in protective immunity to pulmonary infection with B. mallei. Although the role of MCP-1 in gram-positive bacterial infections has been previously invest...

A survey was carried out on the neoplasms of horses, donkeys and mules which are recorded in the registration files of the Section of Pathology of the Veterinary Research Institute, Onderstepoort, in the Republic of South Africa, over a 40-year period from 1935 to 1974. A total of 378 tumours are recorded, 339 of which were in horses, 32 in mules and 7 in donkeys. Sarcoids (38%), squamous cell ...

Sleep patterns in the pony wlth obse~anons on partial perceptual depniva. ~ton. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 12(5) 789-796, 19"74.-Sleep characteristics were invest~ated m ponies under normal stall conditmns and during partial (visua~ and auditive) perceptual deprivation. Polygraphic recordings of slow waves sleep (SWS) and paradoxical sleep ('PS) including changes in hippocampal acnvity are described. A no...

BACKGROUND The Gambia has an increasing population of equidae largely used for agriculture and transportation. A review of cases at The Gambian Horse and Donkey Trust (GHDT) indicated that a common reason for presentation is a poorly defined medical condition often attributed to trypanosomosis. There are few reports describing the prevalence or the range of clinical signs associated with infect...

To the Editor: In 2012, a novel coronavirus termed Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERSCoV) emerged on the Arabian Peninsula; the virus has been responsible for >800 human cases. Recently, evidence of MERS-CoV infection in dromedaries was obtained from the Canary Islands, the Arabian Peninsula, and Africa (1– 3). Viral sequences from dromedaries and from humans infected with MERS-...