Date Available

9-17-2018

Year of Publication

2018

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

College

Agriculture, Food and Environment

Department/School/Program

Animal and Food Sciences

Advisor

Dr. Mary Rossano

Abstract

Diagnosing disease in equine neonates poses a challenge for the equine industry because of the nonspecific manifestations of many diseases and the rapid deterioration that occurs. The differential diagnostic procedure requires many laboratory tests, whose results take days to receive. Serum amyloid A (SAA) is the only major acute phase protein identified in the horse; it exists in low levels in the healthy horse and increases over 100 fold in response to inflammatory stimulus 6-8 hours post stimulus. A point of care test allows veterinarians to obtain a SAA concentration within minutes that indicates the existence of infection. Being able to test and quantify this protein at the onset of illness may reduce the time before treatment is initiated and therefore increase the chance of survival for the equine neonate, which would greatly help a large problem in the industry.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2018.372

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