{"id":7190,"date":"2016-10-06T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:50:56","slug":"getting-to-the-bottom-of-equine-lyme-neuroborreliosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/getting-to-the-bottom-of-equine-lyme-neuroborreliosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to the Bottom of Equine Lyme Neuroborreliosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equine Lyme disease in itself can be challenge for veterinarians to diagnose, not only because of its variable clinical signs, but also because not all \u201cinfected\u201d animals develop disease. Even more challenging is Lyme neuroborreliosis (NB), which occurs when the causative agent\u2014<em>Borrelia burgdorferi<\/em>\u2014infects horses\u2019 nervous tissue. Not every horse infected with\u00a0<em>B. burgdorferi<\/em>\u00a0will develop NB; many horses show no signs of disease; and, even if they do, there\u2019s no reliable way to diagnose it.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/38255\/getting-to-the-bottom-of-equine-lyme-neuroborreliosis\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to better understand how to diagnose the condition, Laura Johnstone, BVSc, MVSc, of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s School of Veterinary Medicine at New Bolton Center, lead a team of researchers to review the clinical signs and pathologic findings from horses diagnosed at necropsy with NB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,14,40,31],"tags":[604,603,602,605,606],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-industry","category-thehorse","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-b-burgdorferi","tag-borrelia-burgdorferi","tag-equine-lyme-disease","tag-laura-johnstone","tag-university-of-pennsylvanias-school-of-veterinary-medicine-at-new-bolton-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","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=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}