[Acute diarrhea in horses with special regard to salmonellosis and typhlocolitis]

Casuistics of 200 patients with acute diarrhea (72 horses with salmonellosis, 55 horses with typhlocolitis, 73 horses with unspecific diarrhea) have been analyzed. It was shown, that horses with salmonellosis have been fallen ill with a primary disease for a longer period of time before the beginning of diarrhea than those with typhlocolitis and that in cases of salmonellosis antibiotics very often were used during the preliminary treatment. Frequently a primary illness of the colon was seen with typhlocolitis. Besides the frequent use of butylscopolamin during the pretreatment was noticed. The clinical and laboratory parameters showed many differences between the three groups of patients as well as a dependency on the course of healing. Particularly it was important, that horses with salmonellosis had fever and a leukopenia at the beginning of diarrhea, while in horses with typhlocolitis a leukopenia without fever at the beginning of diarrhea was seen, whereas fever only appeared a few days later in moribund patients. Finally an evaluation of the therapies was carried out.