title: An overview of infection control strategies for equine facilities, with an emphasis on veterinary hospitals.
abstract: Infection control entails preventing or minimizing exposure to infectious agents or optimizing resistance to infection at the individual and population levels should exposure occur. The degree to which each of these strategies is applied varies according to the attributes of the disease agent and the population at risk. In developing an infection control, biosecurity, or biocontainment plan, it is important to decide which agent or agents are to be controlled, the method by which they might be introduced to the individual or population, and methods by which they might spread once at a farm or veterinary clinic.
authors.affiliation: Animal Population Health Institute, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. jtraub1@colostate.edu
authors.forename: Josie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Traub-Dargatz
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Dargatz
authors.forename: Paul S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Morley
authors.forename: Magda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dunowska
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D000818:Animals; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006736:Horses; D006762:Hospitals, Animal / Q000592:standards; D006920:Hygiene; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*