Equine herpesvirus -Biosecurity at home and at competition

摘要

Equine herpesvirus (EHV) infection is ubiquitous in horse populations across the world, with the ability to cause respiratory disease, abortion, neonatal foal death, and myeloencephalopathy syndrome (EHM). Two related but antigenically distinct viralcausative agents (equine herpesvirus type 1 |EHV-1J and type 4 IEHV-4]) are involved in the four different syndromes. EHV-4 is predominantly associated with the commonplace but low mortality respiratory syndrome; in contrast, EHV-1 has the ability to clinically impact on three systems: respiratory, reproductive and neurological.