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The gland is a horse disease and is also known as coryza contagiosa equorum or adenitis equorum .
This very contagious infectious disease affects the upper respiratory tract in horses . The gland is caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi ssp. equi . Infection occurs through direct contact with the mouth or nose area of an infected horse or indirectly through objects contaminated with bacteria, such as feed troughs or bridles . Humans can also pass the pathogen on from one horse to another. The incubation period is 3 to 14 days and the pathogen spreads in the animal via the blood and lymph .
In addition to a catarrh of the nose with mucopurulent nasal discharge, cough and high fever often leads to a suppuration of the associated head lymph nodes (v. A. Mandibular lymph nodes , Lnn. Mandibular and Kehl transition lymph nodes , Lnn. Retropharyngei ). If the pharyngeal lymph nodes are affected, the disease can spread to the air sac and lead to suppuration of the air sac. By spreading to the lungs, a can pneumonia develop. In rare cases, abscesses can spread to other organs such as the liver , spleen , kidneys , brain and intestinal lymph nodes . The disease is not infrequently fatal without treatment.
With timely treatment, the prognosis is good. Since it is a bacterial disease, antibiotics can be used. A preventive vaccination is also possible.
Historical names for the disease are throat addiction , stringy, and horse streak .
literature
- Hanns-Jürgen Wintzer (Ed.): Diseases of the horse. A guide for study and practice. 3. Edition. Parey Buchverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8263-3280-6 .
- Johann Nicolaus Rohlwes: Treatise on the internal diseases of horses for education for prospective veterinarians . Herald and electoral staff, Lüneburg 1797.
- Olof Dietz (Hrsg.): Handbuch Pferdepraxis. 3. Edition. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8304-1028-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Max Höfler: German book of names of diseases. Munich 1899, p. 920.
