Nocardia asteroides infection in horses: a review.
From 1965 to 1983, Nocardia asteroides infection was diagnosed in 16 horses at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, University of California, Davis. In 2 of the cases, the infection was traumatic in origin and local in extent; the horses recovered without relevant antimicrobial therapy. Fourteen horses had pulmonary or disseminated infections that ended fatally. All 14 had various degrees of immunosuppression. Of these, 8 were Arabian foals with combined immunodeficiency disease and 3 were aged horses with hyperadrenocorticism secondary to ACTH-secreting pituitary tumors. Of the other 3, one had lymphosarcoma, another, hepatic disease presumed to be of toxic origin, and the third, a mixed disseminated bacterial infection.
D000818:Animals; D003480:Cushing Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D006736:Horses; D007153:Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes / Q000150:complications / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D009617:Nocardia Infections / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D009616:Nocardia asteroides / Q000302:isolation & purification