| contagious equine metritis eradicated from japan. | contagious equine metritis (cem), a contagious venereal disease of horses, invaded japan in 1980 and spread in the thoroughbred population of the hidaka-iburi district of hokkaido. to eradicate cem, we ran a program aimed at detecting taylorella equigenitalis, the causal agent, in carrier horses by using the pcr test, followed by culling or treatment. in 2001, the first year of the program, 12,356 thoroughbred racing stallions and mares were tested and 11 carriers were found. four, two, one, and ... | 2011 | 22123306 |
| genotyping of isolates of taylorella equigenitalis from thoroughbred brood mares in japan. | profiles of the genomic dna of 104 strains of t. equigenitalis isolated from brood mares with contagious equine metritis in hokkaido during the breeding seasons from 1980 to 1993, as well as those of five strains (ss28, eq56, eq59, eq70 and hh139) previously isolated in japan were examined after restriction digestion and crossed-field gel electrophoresis. these profiles were essentially identical to each other and the various isolates and strains appeared to have a common genotype, designated 'g ... | 1995 | 8540238 |