Septic or infectious arthritis in healthy adult horses usually develops rapidly, creating significant lameness, but a recent case report found that septic arthritis might appear chronic rather than acute, and that it can be caused by an unusual bacterium.
Septic arthritis is almost always exquisitely painful, and the lameness it causes only gets worse until the infection is treated.
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