Serological investigations connected to an outbreak of equine infectious anaemia in Hungary

Abstract

Equine infectious anaemia (EIA) is an infectious and potentially fatal viral disease of solipeds, and is called a “blood-borne” disease, because it is transmitted usually either through insects (natural way of infection) or via contaminated needle (iatrogenic infection). In this thesis work an outbreak and the following epizootiological investigations are described. The case was connected to an unusual way of transmission, when aerosolisation of blood (sneezing and snoring out blood during nasal bleeding) or blood-contamination of contact horses resulted infection.