Respiratory disease in thoroughbred horses in training: The relationships between disease and viruses, bacteria and environment
Respiratory disease in thoroughbred horses in training: The relationships between disease and viruses, bacteria and environment
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DOI：
10.1136/vr.139.13.308
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发表时间：
1996-09-28
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Mumford, JA
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作者：
Burrell, MH;Wood, JLN;Mumford, JA
对赛马的呼吸道疾病进行了纵向研究，以评估其与不同传染因子的相关关系，并检查环境条件可能发挥的任何作用。还检查了咳嗽、流鼻水、发热和下呼吸道疾病之间的关系，为改进临床诊断，特别是下呼吸道疾病的诊断提供了信息。下气道疾病与动物流行链球菌感染密切相关。研究还发现，马疱疹病毒血清转化和肺炎链球菌感染与鼻分泌物的发展独立相关，咳嗽是一种特异性但不敏感的下呼吸道疾病测量方法（特异性84%，敏感性38%），然而，咳嗽的马很可能患有下呼吸道疾病超过一个月。被关在稻草笼里的马患下呼吸道疾病的可能性是那些关在撕碎的纸笼里的马的两倍。这项研究的规模还不足以评估罕见感染的重要性，但它确实改善了对赛马呼吸道疾病问题的定义，并揭示了病毒、细菌和环境之间在呼吸道疾病中的关系的一些趋势。
A longitudinal study of respiratory disease in racehorses was carried out to assess its relative associations with different infectious agents and to examine any role that the environmental conditions might play, The relationships between coughing, nasal discharge, pyrexia and lower respiratory tract disease were also examined to provide information for improving clinical diagnosis, particularly of disease of the lower respiratory tract, Lower airway disease was closely associated with infection with Streptococcus zooepidemicus. It was also found that equine herpesvirus seroconversions and S pneumoniae infections were independently associated with the development of nasal discharge, Coughing was a specific, but insensitive measure of lower respiratory tract disease (specificity 84 per cent, sensitivity 38 per cent), However, horses that coughed were very likely to have had lower airway disease for more than one month. Horses housed on straw in loose boxes were twice as likely to suffer from lower airway disease as those kept on shredded paper in American barns, The study was not large enough to assess the significance of rarer infections but it did improve the definition of the problem of respiratory disease in racehorses and revealed some of the trends in the associations between viruses, bacteria and the environment in respiratory disease.