Earthworms And Rhodococcus Equi: What’s The Connection?

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Rhodococcus equi is a bacterium that can cause severe pneumonia in foals. Shed in the feces of infected horses, pigs, and wild boars, it can survive in the soil and is often acquired when foals inhale it, reports The Horse. A group of scientists in Japan thought there might be one additional critical reservoir that […]

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