A survey of equine abortion and perinatal foal losses in Hungary during a three-year period (1998-2000).
Cases of equine abortion and perinatal foal losses were investigated in Hungary during a three-year period (1998-2000). Samples from aborted equine fetuses and newborn foals (total n = 96) were examined using bacteriological, virological, pathological, immunohistochemical (IHC), molecular biological and serological methods. The cause of abortion and perinatal foal loss was identified in 67/96 cases (70%); viral infection was found in 22 (23%), viral and bacterial coinfection in 1 (1%), bacterial infection in 23 (24%), protozoan infection in 1 (1%) and fungal infection in 2 cases (2%). Morphological lesions suggestive of infection were recorded in 2 (2%) and non-infectious causes in 16 cases (17%).
Szeredi
Levente
L
Central Agricultural Office Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate, H-1149 Budapest, Tábornok u. 2, Hungary. szeredil@oai.hu
Tenk
Miklós
M
Jánosi
Szilárd
S
Pálfi
Vilmos
V
Hotzel
Helmut
H
Sachse
Konrad
K
Pospischil
Andreas
A
Bozsó
Miklós
M
Glávits
Róbert
R
Molnár
Tamás
T
D037881:Aborted Fetus / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D000034:Abortion, Veterinary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D006736:Horses; D006814:Hungary / Q000453:epidemiology; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000662:veterinary; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000662:veterinary*