| review of 40 cases of lung abscesses in foals and adult horses. | a retrospective study of 40 horses with primary lung abscesses without pleuropneumonia showed that lung abscesses occurred predominantly in young horses, usually in foals aged < or = 6 months. hyperfibrinogenaemia was present in all but 2 horses, and other common clinical and haematological findings were hyperthermia, tachycardia, polypnoea, and neutrophilic leucocytosis. the most common bacterial species isolated from transtracheal aspirates were streptococcus zooepidemicus (20/34) and rhodococ ... | 1994 | 7988535 |