Oral Infection of Weanling Foals with an Equine Isolate of <i>Lawsonia intracellularis</i> , Agent of Equine Proliferative Enteropathy

Abstract

Clinical EPE of variable severity was induced in all foals infected with L. intracellularis. Furthermore, L. intracellularis can be transmitted via the feco-oral route to susceptible herdmates.