Lawsonia intracellularis associated equine proliferative enteropathy in Danish weanling foals.

Background: Lawsonia intracellularis, an obligate intracellular bacterium, causes equine proliferative enteropathy, mainly in horses around weaning. This disease is rarely reported in the Scandinavian countries.

Results: Five cases of equine proliferative enteropathy were diagnosed between 2008-2016 at the University of Copenhagen Large Animal Teaching Hospital.

Recovery of live immature cyathostome larvae from the faeces of horses by Baermann technique.

It was demonstrated in the present study that a simple Baermann technique using disposable materials, was successful in detecting living, motile cyathostome larvae in the faeces of horses.