Septic arthritis in horses is a serious disease which can become life-threatening. In case the infection can be eliminated before irreversible joint damage occurs, complete recovery is possible. This article gives an overview of the literature concerning etiology, diagnosis and strategies of therapy in cases of septic arthritis in adult horses, with special reference to novel options of treatment.
In the present study field strains of equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV 1) were compared by restriction enzyme analysis. The strains were isolated from aborted fetuses in a horse stud during an abortion outbreak in 1993/1994. We found that all isolates had the same electrophoretic patterns of EHV 1 type, very similar to the pattern of the reference Ab-4 strain of EHV 1. We confirmed also the usefulness of DNA fingerprinting method for differentiation of EHV 1 and EHV4 viruses.
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