"Strangles is probably the most important bacterial disease of the horse," explained John Timoney, MVB, PhD, DSc, MRCVS, of the University of Kentucky's Gluck Equine Research Center, "and one for which a safe and effective vaccine is so very badly needed. There are four or five good laboratories in the world that are desperately trying to improve existing vaccines, or develop a novel vaccine.

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