Death of a horse infected experimentally with Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Abstract

A 19-year-old horse that was one of a group of six horses infected experimentally with Anaplasma phagocytophilum for a study of the pathogenesis of equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis died suddenly two days after first showing clinical signs of disease. The clinical signs and laboratory findings observed before its death were similar to all those of the other infected horses, and to previous reports of this disease. A postmortem examination revealed widespread haemorrhaging in its internal organs, and vasculitis and thrombosis in the kidneys. These changes are consistent with disseminated intravascular coagulation, which has previously been reported in human beings infected with the presumably identical agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis.

Published in

Veterinary Record
2007, volume: 160, number: 4, pages: 122-125
Publisher: BRITISH VETERINARY ASSOC

SLU Authors

• Pringle, John

  • Department of Clinical Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Aspán, Anna

  • No organisation

UKÄ Subject classification

Animal and Dairy Science
Veterinary Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.160.4.122

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