Botulism Reviewed for World Equine Vets

by: Kimberly S. Brown, Editor
An overview of botulism was given at the 2009 WEVA Congress by Nathan M. Slovis DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, CHT (certified in hyperbaric oxygen therapy), director of the McGee Critical Care and Medical Center at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky. He described botulism as a neuromuscular disease characterized by flaccid paralysis and caused by neurotoxins produced by strain ...


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