Table 1.

The clinical symptoms, blood parameters and blood chemistry of the dourine-infected stallion

Clinical symptoms	Slight edema in the genital organ
	Slight paraphimosis
	A large amount of smegma around the penis
	Small skin lesion
	Slight anemia
Blood parameters	WBC: 12.9 ×103 cells/μl (slightly high)
	RBC: 6.32 ×106 cells/μl (slightly low)
	HGB: 10.6 g/dl (slightly low)
	HCT: 30.9 % (slightly low)
	Other parameters: normal (MCV, MCH, MCHC, PLT)
Blood chemistry parameters	Normal (ALP, ALT, AST, albumin, total protein, total cholesterol, bilirubin, BUN, creatinine, amylase)
Parasitemia	Swab of the urethral tract mucosa: a lot of trypanosomes
	Blood: < 2.5 × 105 cells/mla (1 trypanosome per 500 fields; magnification 400×)
	Cerebrospinal fluid: relatively a lot of trypanosomes in sediment

^aParasitemia was estimated using Herbert & Lumsden's method [14]