{"id":4727,"date":"2011-04-26T22:46:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4727"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T21:13:24","slug":"rare-equine-skin-infection-spreads-to-new-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/rare-equine-skin-infection-spreads-to-new-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare equine skin infection spreads to new regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If your horse doesn&#8217;t live in a tropical or subtropical region, you&#8217;ve most likely never had to worry about equine pythiosis, a relatively rare and sometimes fatal skin infection that causes tumorlike masses and ulcerated lesions in horses. But researchers have noted recently that the disease is now also affecting horses in cooler, drier climates&#8211;indicating that it&#8217;s becoming more widespread and is an affliction more horse owners need to be aware of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=18146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Leonel Mendoza, MSc, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology at Michigan State University, who recently completed a review on the disease, equine pythiosis is a rare infection caused by a funguslike microorganism called\u00a0Pythium insidiosum. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","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=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8717,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions\/8717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}