Equine Journal Club - July 2023

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* 1. What is your first name?

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* 2. What is your last name?

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* 3. What is your email address?

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* 4. Equine Recurrent Uveitis (ERU) is one of the most significant equine ophthalmic diseases and is __.

Never correlated with blindness in the horse.

The foremost cause of blindness in the horse.

Rarely seen in Appaloosas.

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* 5. Which serovar was associated with a poor visual prognosis and the presence of active ocular disease?

L. pomona

L. icterohaemorrhagiae

L. bratislava

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* 6. According to this article, the highest chance of correlating Leptospira spp as an inciting factor for ERU is likely via which of the following protocols?

Aqueous humor PCR samples between the age of 6.5-12 years

Blood PCR samples within the first year of infection

Serum titers during or directly following the wet season

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* 7. A positive aqueous humor titer of any serotype was significantly correlated with what clinical finding?

Blindness at presentation

Anterior segment disease

Posterior segment disease

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* 8. Against which strain of Leptospira spp is the FDA approved equine vaccine directed?

L. bratislava

L. pomona

L. grippotyphosa