Volume 2, Number 2

The International Journal of Applied Research in Veterinary Medicine

Table of Contents

79 Experimental Infection of Horses with Culture-Derived Sarcocystis
neurona Merozoites as a Model for Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis
Siobhan P. Ellison, Ellis Greiner, Karen K. Brown, and Tom Kennedy

90 Pharmacologic Treatment of Equine Self-Mutilation Syndrome
Nicholas H. Dodman, Louis Shuster, Gary J. Patronek, and Linda Kinney

99 Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiovascular Sequelae in 54 Dogs
R. Lee Pyle, Jonathan Abbott, and Heidi MacLean

110 Echocardiographic Evaluation of Mitral Annulus Excursion in
Normal Horses
Carlos Lightowler, Giuseppe Piccione,Maria Laura Cattaneo, and Elisabetta Giudice

115 Effect of Teat Hyperkeratosis on Somatic Cell Counts of Dairy Cows
David E. Gleeson,William J. Meaney, Edmond J. O’Callaghan, and Myles V. Rath

123 Sarcoptes scabiei infection in a Bonnet Monkey (Macaca radiata)
Perumal Nagarajan, Ramasamy Venkatesan, Jerald Mahesh Kumar, and
Subeer S. Majumda

126 Spontaneous Clinical Regression of Johne’s Disease in a Holstein Cow:
A Case Report
Claus D. Buergelt, Joseph E.Williams, and Giles R.G. Monif

130 Identification of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis
by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Blood and Semen of a Bull with
Clinical Paratuberculosis
Claus D. Buergelt,G. Arthur Donovan, and Joseph E.Williams

135 Detection of pap, sfa, afa, and fim Adhesin-Encoding Operons in
Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli
Terezinha Knöbl, Tânia A. Tardelli Gomes, Mônica A. Midolli Vieira, José A. Bottinoa,
and Antônio J. Piantino Ferreira

142 The Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome and the Eastern Tent
Caterpillar II: A Toxicokinetic/Clinical Evaluation and a Proposed
Pathogenesis: Septic Penetrating Setae
Thomas Tobin, J. Daniel Harkins, John Ford Roberts, Patricia W.VanMeter,
and Tara A. Fuller