Table 4.
Counts of total number of infections and number of mono‐ and coinfections for each infection agent found in 37 healthy foals and 51 foals with gastrointestinal (GI) disease in central Kentucky. Infectious agents were detected by either real‐time PCR (all) and culture (Salmonella spp. only)
| Group | Type of infection recorded | Real‐time PCR | Culture | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equine rotavirus | Equine coronavirus | C. difficile toxin A* | C. difficile toxin B* | Neorickettsia risticii | C. perfringens alpha toxin | Lawsonia intracellularis | Rhodococcus equi | Cryptosporidiu m spp. | Salmonella spp. | Salmonella spp. | ||
| Healthy | Monoinfection | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Coinfection | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total number of infection calls | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| GI‐diseased | Monoinfection | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Coinfection | 11 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1 | |
| Total number of infection calls | 18 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 4 | |
*Presence of C. difficile toxins A and B not considered a coinfection.
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