Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 27.1.2006 9:31
Borrelioosia esiintyy enenevässä määrin hevosilla. Diagnoosin teko vain on yhtä onnetonta niin ihmisillä kuin hevosilla.
Vet Q. 2005 Dec;27(4):146-56.
Borrelia burgdorferi infections with special reference to horses. A review.
Butler CM, Houwers DJ, Jongejan F, van der Kolk JH.
Department of Equine Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. c.m.butler@vet.uu.nl
This review discusses the literature on B. burgdorferi infections in view of the rising incidence of this infection in general and the increasing concerns of horse owners and equine practitioners. Lyme disease, the clinical expression of Borrelia infections in man is an important health problem. The geographic distribution of B. burgdorferi infections in equidae should resemble that of human cases because the vector tick involved, Ixodes ricinus, feeds on both species and, indeed, the infection has been established many times in horses.
However, a definite diagnosis of the disease "Lyme borreliosis" in human beings as well as in horses and other animals is often difficult to accomplish.
Although a broad spectrum of clinical signs has been attributed to B. burgdorferi infections in horses, indisputable cases of equine Lyme borreliosis are extremely rare so far, if they exist at all.
PMID: 16402512 [PubMed - in process]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... list_uids=
16402512&query_hl=25&itool=pubmed_docsum
BORRELIOOSIA HEVOSILLA
Valvojat: Jatta1001, Borrelioosiyhdistys, Bb