Venereal Diseases - Donkey
As in the horse, the most important venereal diseases are equine viral arteritis, EVA (Ramina et al, 1999), contagious equine metritis, CEM (Matsuda and Moore, 2003), and dourine (Turnbull et al, 2002). Infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae have also been suspected as possible causes of poor reproductive performances due to venereal transmission.
The asinine strain of equine arteritis virus (EAV) has been shown to behave similarly to the horse strain (Paweska et al, 1996; Ramina et al, 1999). The South African strain of EAV appears to be poorly transmissible to horses (Paweska et al, 1996; Paweska et al, 1997).
CEM organisms isolated from donkeys are different from Taylorella equigenitalis and a new nomenclature for the organism has been proposed, that is, T. asinigenitalis (Jang et al, 2001; Matsuda and Moore, 2003). These ‘atypical’ donkey Taylorella have been shown to cause the same syndrome as CEM in mares and remain in the urethral fossa for as long as 111 days (Katz et al, 2000).
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References
- Tibary, A., Sghiri, A. & Bakkoury, M. (2008) Reproduction In Svendsen, E.D., Duncan, J. and Hadrill, D. (2008) The Professional Handbook of the Donkey, 4th edition, Whittet Books, Chapter 17
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