Aggressive early treatment can help horses recover from wounds afflicted with these persistent bacterial conglomeration … Packed with well-protected pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria, biofilms can form spontaneously on wound surfaces and in deeper wound layers, creating significant challenges for both the equine patient and the treating veterinarian … A biofilm’s resistant matrix makes it tough to treat with antimicrobials and allows it to evade the body’s immune response, resulting in wounds that get larger instead of healing, said Lynn Pezzanite, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl. ACVS-LA, assistant professor of equine emergency and critical care at Colorado State University’s … read more
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