Table 1.
Reason for presentation and final diagnosis of the subcategory internal medicine-related disease in the sampled horses from the regions Berlin/Brandenburg (BE/BB/ panel A) and North Rhine–Westphalia (NRW/ panel B). Since the majority of typical WNV symptoms were found in the internal medicine-related disease (IM) category, only this one was further broken down into subcategories in the table.
| Presented For | BE/BB 2019 | BE/BB 2020 | BE/BB Total | NWR 2018 | NWR 2020 | NWR Total | Total 2018–2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal medicine-related disease (IM) | 51 | 139 | 190 | 36 | 52 | 88 | 278 |
| Musculoskeletal problem (MS) | 39 | 46 | 85 | 10 | 14 | 24 | 109 |
| Dental problem (Dental) | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| Health control (Healthy) | 7 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 8 | 29 | 38 |
| Total per year | 98 | 196 | 294 | 67 | 76 | 143 | 437 |
| Final diagnosis of internal medicine-related disease | |||||||
| Suspected or diagnosed infectious disease | 5 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 21 |
| Clinically diagnosed WNV infection | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Neurological disease | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| Gastrointestinal disease | 23 | 85 | 108 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 123 |
| Suspected or diagnosed intoxication | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Respiratory tract disease | 3 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 32 |
| Cardiovascular disease | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Anemia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Urogenital disease | 6 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Dermatological disease | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
| Endocrinological disease | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 34 | 34 |
| Suspected or diagnosed Neoplasia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Ophthalmological disease | 4 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 |
| Total per year | 51 | 139 | 190 | 36 | 52 | 88 | 278 |