BACKGROUND: Bartonella spp. are emerging zoonotic agents that have been found in a wide variety of domestic animals and wildlife and cause a number of clinical syndromes. Bartonella sp. infection has been identified in a growing number of animal species, including cats, rodents, porpoises, and canids, but has not been reported in horses. OBJECTIVE: To document the presence of Bartonella sp. in the blood of horses. ANIMALS: One horse with chronic arthropathy and 1 horse with presumptive vasculitis. METHODS: Blood samples were tested for the presence of Bartonella sp. by a combination of multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction and enrichment culture technique. RESULTS: Bartonella henselae was isolated or detected in the blood of both horses. CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Bartonella henselae infection should be investigated as the cause of disease in horses.
BACKGROUND: Bartonella spp. are emerging zoonotic agents that have been found in a wide variety of domestic animals and wildlife and cause a number of clinical syndromes. Bartonella sp. infection has been identified in a growing number of animal species, including cats, rodents, porpoises, and canids, but has not been reported in horses. OBJECTIVE: To document the presence of Bartonella sp. in the blood of horses. ANIMALS: One horse with chronic arthropathy and 1 horse with presumptive vasculitis. METHODS: Blood samples were tested for the presence of Bartonella sp. by a combination of multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction and enrichment culture technique. RESULTS:Bartonella henselae was isolated or detected in the blood of both horses. CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Bartonella henselae infection should be investigated as the cause of disease in horses.
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