Archive for January 2014

Horse management tips for cold temperatures By Holly Wiemers LEXINGTON, Ky., (Jan. 23, 2014) – Bitter cold temperatures have been a theme this winter, and are now here again. Experts at the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment offer tips for managing horses during extremely cold weather. While the ideal time for…

Lawsonia intracellularis is an obligate intracellular gram-negative bacterium causing equine proliferative enteropathy (EPE) in mostly young horses. It causes proliferation of the affected enterocytes, resulting in thickening segments of small intestines, sometimes large intestines as well (Lawson and Gebhart, 2000). L. intracellularis does not grow in routine aerobic/anaerobic culture and can only be grown in…