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Interim Report – May 2011 #1 (09.05.11)

SOUTH AFRICA

Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM)
An imported stallion was released from post-arrival quarantine in the State Quarantine Station in Johannesburg on 22nd February 2011 and went directly to a private equine semen collection and embryo transfer centre where semen was collected from the stallion for artificial insemination of mares for embryo transfer.  A total of eight mares were inseminated with semen collected from the stallion and at the time of embryo collection mucoid fluid was obtained during the embryo flushing procedure.  Swabs were collected from the stallion and one of the mares and submitted to a private laboratory (IDEXX Laboratory, Johannesburg) for bacteriological examination which revealed colonies suspicious for Taylorella equigenetalis and which also conformed with the biochemical characteractistics of Taylorella equigenetalis.  The isolates were sent for confirmation to the OIE CEMO Reference Laboratory at the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Bury St Edmunds, UK.  The isolate was subsequently confirmed as being Taylorella equigenetalis.  Trace forward investigations, laboratory testing and treatment is ongoing and South Africa intends to eradicate this disease

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International Collating Centre