Learning Lawsonia's Habits: High Exposure Rates, Low Morbidity

by: Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
It appears most young foals born on farms with endemic Lawsonia intracellularis could be protected from equine proliferative enteropathy (EPE), a spreading intestinal disease caused by the bacterium, provided they ingest colostrum containing antibodies. Nicola Pusterla, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, associate professor in the department of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of ...