The gnotobiotic foal in the study of infectious diseases.
A method of rearing germ-free gnotobiotic foals is described. To date, four foals have been infected with rhinopneumonitis and the only clinical signs of infection have been a transient fever and leukopaenia; no detailed results are, as yet, available.
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D005856:Germ-Free Life; D006736:Horses; D007239:Infections