{"id":1339,"date":"2008-01-23T02:30:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T19:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2008-01-23T02:30:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T19:30:36","slug":"new-epm-research-sheds-light-on-spread-of-causative-parasite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/new-epm-research-sheds-light-on-spread-of-causative-parasite\/","title":{"rendered":"New EPM Research Sheds Light on Spread of Causative Parasite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by: Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After years of studying equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), a serious neurological disease in horses, scientists have mapped the first steps in the migratory path of Sarcocystis neurona&#8211;the chief parasitic cause of EPM.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before now, it was unclear how the parasite gained entry to the horse&#8217;s central nervous system to cause disease,&#8221; explained study co-author William Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, chair of the Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine at The Ohio State University&#8217;s College of Veterinary Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>After feeding six ponies S. neurona sporocysts, the parasite was identified in abdominal lymph nodes, the liver, and lungs between Days 1 and 9 post-infection.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, microscopic evidence of EPM-like lesions was found in the horses&#8217; brains and spinal cords within seven to nine days of infection.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=11173\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by: Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc\u00a0 After years of studying equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), a serious neurological disease in horses, scientists have mapped the first steps in the migratory path of Sarcocystis neurona&#8211;the chief parasitic cause of EPM. &#8220;Before now, it was unclear how the parasite gained entry to the horse&#8217;s central nervous system to cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodhorse","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}