Chapter 40 Emergency Diseases Unique to Countries Outside the Continental United States

Australia and New Zealand

  1. Carroll AG, Swain BJ: Birdsville disease in the central highlands area of Queensland, Aust Vet J 60(10):316-317, 1983. PUBMED Abstract
  2. Cheeke PR: Endogenous toxins and mycotoxins and their effects on livestock, J Anim Sci 73:909-918, 1995. PUBMED Abstract
  3. Conner HE: The poisonous plants in New Zealand, Wellington, 1977, New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
  4. Field H, Schaaf K, Kung N et al: Hendra virus outbreak with novel clinical features, Australia, Emerg Infect Dis 16(2):338-340, 2010. PUBMED Abstract
  5. Hall RA, Scherret JH, MacKenzie JS: Kunjin virus: an Australian variant of West Nile? Ann N Y Acad Sci 951:153-160, 2001. PUBMED Abstract
  6. Hooper PT, Ketterer PJ, Hyatt AD, Russell GM: Lesions of experimental equine morbillivirus pneumonia in horses, Vet Pathol 34(4):312-322, 1997. PUBMED Abstract
  7. Hooper PT, Williamson MM: Hendra and Nipah virus infections, Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract 16(3):597-603, 2000. PUBMED Abstract
  8. Kim LM, Morley PS, McCluskey BJ et al: Oral vesicular lesions in horses without evidence vesicular stomatitis virus infection, J Am Vet Med Assoc 216(9):1399-1404, 2000. PUBMED Abstract
  9. Majak W, Benn M, McEwan D, Pass MA: Three nitropropanoyl esters of glucose from Indigofera linnaei, Phytochemistry 31(7):2393-2395, 1992.
  10. Marsh GA, Haining J, Hancock TJ et al: Experimental infection of horses with Hendra virus/Australia/horse/2008/Redlands, Emerg Infect Dis 17(12):2232-2238, 2011. PUBMED Abstract
  11. Matthews S, Dart AJ, Dowling BA et al: Peritonitis associated with Actinobacillus equuli in horses: 51 cases, Aust Vet J 79(8):536-539, 2001. PUBMED Abstract
  12. McCluskey BJ, Mumford EL: Vesicular stomatitis and other vesicular, erosive, and ulcerative diseases of horses, Vet Clin North Am Equine Pract 16(3):457-469, 2000. PUBMED Abstract
  13. McCormack JG, Allworth AM: Emerging viral infections in Australia, Med J Aust 177(1):45-49, 2002. PUBMED Abstract
  14. McKenzie RA: Toxicology for the Australian veterinarian (study notes). Copyright 2002, RA McKenzie.
  15. McKenzie JS, Gubler DJ, Petersen LR: Emerging flaviviruses: the spread and resurgence of Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, and dengue viruses, Nat Med 10(12):S98-S109, 2004. PUBMED Abstract
  16. O’Sullivan BM: Croften weed (Eupatorium adenophorum) toxicity in horses, Aust Vet J 55(1):19-21, 1985.
  17. O’Sullivan BM: Investigations into Croften weed (Eupatorium adenophorum) toxicity in horses, Aust Vet J 62(1):30-32, 1985. PUBMED Abstract
  18. Porter JK: Analysis of endophyte toxins and other grasses toxic to livestock, J Anim Sci 73:871-880, 1995. PUBMED Abstract
  19. Radostits OM, Blood DC, Gay CC, editors: Veterinary medicine, ed 8, London, 1994, Bailliere Tindall.
  20. Smith BP, editor: Large animal internal medicine, ed 3, St Louis, 2002, Mosby.

Europe

Grass Sickness

  1. Hahn CN, Mayhew IG: Phenylephrine eyedrops as a diagnostic test in equine grass Sickness, Vet Rec 147:603-606, 2000. PUBMED Abstract
  2. Hunter LC, Miller JK, Poxton IR: The association of Clostridium botulinum type C with equine grass sickness: a toxicoinfection? Equine Vet J 31:492-499, 1999. PUBMED Abstract
  3. Mair TS, Kelley AM, Pearson GR: Comparison of ileal and rectal biopsies in the diagnosis of equine grass sickness, Vet Rec 168:266, 2011. PUBMED Abstract
  4. Milne E, Wallis N: Nursing the chronic grass sickness patient, Equine Vet Ed 6:217-219, 1994.
  5. Newton JR, Hedderson EJ, Adams VJ et al: An epidemiological study of risk factors associated with the recurrence of equine grass sickness (dysautonomia) on previously affected premises, Equine Vet J 36: 105-112, 2004. PUBMED Abstract
  6. Scholes SFE et al: Diagnosis of grass sickness by ileal biopsy, Vet Rec 133:7-10, 1993.
  7. Waggett BE, McGorum BC, Wernery U et al: Prevalence of Clostridium perfringens in faeces and ileal contents from grass sickness affected horses: comparisons with 3 control populations, Equine Vet J 42:494-499, 2010. PUBMED Abstract
  8. Wylie CE, Proudman CJ: Equine grass sickness: epidemiology, diagnosis, and global distribution, Vet Clinics N Am Equine Pract 25:381-399, 2009. PUBMED Abstract

African Horse Sickness

  1. Mellor P: African horse sickness (AHS), Equine Vet Ed 6:200-202, 1994.
  2. Rodriguez M, Hooghus H, Castono M: Current status of the diagnosis and control of African horse sickness, Vet Rec 24:189-198, 1993.

Equine Encephalosis

  1. Guthrie AJ, Pardini AD, Howell PG: Equine encephalosis. In Mair TS, Hutchinson RE, editors: Infectious diseases of the horse, Newmarket, 2009, Equine Veterinary Journal Ltd, pp 132-137.

Glanders

  1. Wernery U: Glanders. In Mair TS, Hutchinson RE, editors: Infectious diseases of the horse, Newmarket, 2009, Equine Veterinary Journal Ltd, pp 253-260.

Borna

  1. Herden C, Richt JA: Equine Borna disease. In Mair TS, Hutchinson RE, editors: Infectious diseases of the horse, Newmarket, 2009, Equine Veterinary Journal Ltd, pp 113-127.

Dourine

  1. Van den Bossche P, Geerts S, Claes F: Equine trypanosomiases. In Mair, TS Hutchinson RE, editors: Infectious diseases of the horse, Newmarket, 2009, Equine Veterinary Journal Ltd, pp 354-365.

Louping Ill

  1. Hyde J, Nettleton P, Marriott L et al: Louping ill in horses, Vet Rec 160:532, 2007. PUBMED Abstract
  2. Timoney PJ, Donnelly WJ, Clements LO et al: 1976. Encephalitis caused by louping ill virus in a group of horses in Ireland, Equine Vet J 8:113-117, 1976. PUBMED Abstract

Atypical Myoglobinuria

  1. Van Galen et al: European outbreaks of atypical myopathy in grazing equids (2006-2009): Spatiotemporal distribution, history and clinical features, Equine Vet J 44(5):614-620, 2012.
  2. Van Galen et al: European outbreaks of atypical myopathy in grazing horses (2006-2009): Determination of indicators for risk and prognostic factors, Equine Vet J 44(5):621-625, 2012.
  3. Whitwell KE, Harris P, Farrington PG: Atypical myoglobinuria: an acute myopathy in grazing horses, Equine Vet J 20:357-363, 1988. PUBMED Abstract

Foal Immunodeficiency Syndrome

  1. Scholes SFE, Holliman A, May PDF et al: A syndrome of anaemia, immunodeficiency and peripheral ganglionopathy in Fell pony foals, Vet Rec 142:128-134, 1998. PUBMED Abstract
  2. Fox-Clipsham LY, Carter SD, Goodhead I et al: Identification of a mutation associated with fatal foal immunodeficiency syndrome in the Fell and Dales pony, PLoS Genet 7 e1002133 Epub July 7, 2011. PUBMED Abstract

South Africa

  1. Botha CJ, Naudé TW: Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of importance in horses in southern Africa, J S Afr Vet Assoc 71(4):1-7, 2000.
  2. Van Eeden C, Williams JH, Gerdes TGH et al: Shuni Virus as a cause of neurological disease in horses, Emerg Infect Dis 18(2):318-321, 2012. PUBMED Abstract
  3. Venter M, Human S, van Niekerk S et al: Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile virus, South Africa, Emerg Infect Dis 17(8):1534-1536, 2011. PUBMED Abstract
  4. Venter M, Swanepoel R: West Nile Virus lineage 2 as a cause of zoonotic neurological disease in humans and horses in Southern Africa, Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 10(7):659-664, 2010. PUBMED Abstract