Navicular disease is a common cause of chronic forelimb lameness in working and athletic horses.1 It involves inflammation or degeneration of the navicular bone and adjacent tissues. It is not to be...
The skin and coat of a horse is regularly exposed to a variety of ubiquitous fungal organisms through the air and soil. Like bacterial and viral infections, horses can fall prey to fungal infection...
Navicular disease (also known as navicular syndrome) in horses is the result of inflammation or degeneration of the navicular bone and its surrounding tissues, which usually occurs in the front feet...
Of the approximately 70,000 species of fungi, there are around 50 that can cause disease in horses.1 Among these, there are four classes:
Superficial— Affect the skin
Cutaneous— Affect the...
