Mycotic endometritis in mares review and clinical observations

Abstract

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Mycotic infections of the nonpregnant equine uterus have become more frequent with the widespread use of antibiotics and the increasingly intensive management and manipulation of reproduction in mares. Although fungi and yeasts have often been blamed for uterine infection, their precise relations to clinical uterine disease are often unclear. These organisms are common in the environment and their recovery in routine culture swabs from mares' uteri may be considerably more frequent than their involvement in the aetiology of uterine disease.