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Symptoms

  • Nasal discharge
  • Containing abundant organisms
  • Tissue turns
  • Thickened
  • Firm
  • Fibrous
  • Lymphnodes
  • Swollen
  • Soft
  • Red

What the Disease Effects

  • It attacks:
  • Lymph Vessels
  • Neck and legs
  • Lymph nodes
  • Neck and legs
  • Wounds:
  • Inflate
  • Pop
  • Skin becomes hard

What It Is

Treatment

Chronic infectious granulomatous, or inflammation found in many diseases, of the skin

  • No commercial treatment
  • Testing vaccinations
  • If the horse survives
  • Immune

How It Spreads

Causes

  • Flies
  • Whenever they attack an open wound
  • Feed on it

Dimorphic fungus, which is a fungi that can reproduce as either a mycelial or a yeast-like state.

Mycelial or Yeast-like

  • Fungal colonies composed of mycelium are found in and on soil.
  • Mycelium, is like fungus
  • Non-invasive, sugar-fermenting organism is yeast-like. (Fly)

Infected Leg

Prevention

  • Take hygenic precautions
  • Anything contaminated should be burned

Treatment of clinical cases is not permitted, and destruction of affected horses is usually mandatory.

(Dirrect quote from http://www.phsource.us/PH/PALM/PDA/EPIZOOTIC%20LYMPHANGITIS.pdf)

Sources

  • http://www.phsource.us/PH/PALM/PDA/EPIZOOTIC%20LYMPHANGITIS.pdf
  • chestofbooks.com
  • vetericyn.com
  • www.horsebreedsinfo.com

Epizootic Lymphangitis

Bacteria

Epizootic Lymphangitis

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