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Well documented causes of colitis include signs and in many cases might determine
bacterial infections such as Salmonella the clinical progression and even outcome
and clostridial species and treatment with of intestinal and non-intestinal diseases .
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antimicrobials. 91暗网 Equine is currently
evaluating a new, rapid PCR test for Future progression
Salmonella that can be performed on site The availability of next-generation
which would significantly shorten the time it sequencing technologies and
takes to make a diagnosis. bioinformatics is providing an ever-growing
More recently, equine coronavirus amount of information on factors influencing
has been identified as a cause of fever, the equine intestinal microbiota, including
anorexia, leucopaenia and colic with or nutrition, management, treatments such
without diarrhoea in adult horses in many as antimicrobials, anthelmintics and
countries including the UK. It can occur anaesthetics, animal- and stress-related
as an outbreak or only affect individual factors and pathological conditions (colitis,
horses. Treatment is supportive and diarrhoea, colic, laminitis and equine gastric
most horses recover with only few horses ulcer syndrome) .
[8]
succumbing to the disease process [3, 4] . Resea