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Primary cause of multifocal, asymmetric, progressive CNS disease.  Can mimic any neurologic disease (Pasq)
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Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, or EPM, is a disease cause by a protozoal infection of the central nervous system of horses.  EPM is one of the most commonly diagnosed neurological diseases of the Western Hemisphere, accounting for around a qaurter of equine neurological cases admitted to two referrral centres in the United States; it has been reported in most of the contiguous 48 states of the USA, southern Canada, and several countries in Central and South America. In other countries, EPM is seen sporadically.   
 
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis, or EPM, is a disease cause by a protozoal infection of the central nervous system of horses.  EPM is one of the most commonly diagnosed neurological diseases of the Western Hemisphere, accounting for around a qaurter of equine neurological cases admitted to two referrral centres in the United States; it has been reported in most of the contiguous 48 states of the USA, southern Canada, and several countries in Central and South America. In other countries, EPM is seen sporadically.   
  
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