Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
A negative serological relationship between cases of grass sickness in Scotland and Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin.
- Journal:
- Equine veterinary journal
- Year:
- 1981
- Authors:
- Gilmour, J S et al.
- Species:
- horse
Abstract
In an attempt to compare the equine grass sickness as reported in Europe with that described in the Republic of Colombia, sera from horses experiencing grass sickness in Scotland were used in neutralisation tests with Clostridium perfringens type A enterotoxin. The sera, from acute and chronic cases of the disease, failed to neutralise either crude or partially-purified enterotoxin. Neither were precipitin lines formed when the sera were treated against the toxin in immunoelectrophoresis. These results suggest that grass sickness in Europe and the equine disease in Colombia have a different aetiology.
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