Josh Slater looks back at the past 125 years of developments in equine infectious disease, including landmark discoveries in microbiology and genomics, and considers what the future may hold.

INTRODUCTION ............................................................ ............................................ 42 INFECTIONS IN GENERAL .................................................................................... 42 Recorded Cases .......................................................................................................... 42 Institutional and common source outbreak...

B. pseudomallei and B. mallei can survive hostile conditions, becoming resilient to many antimicrobial agents, including antibiotics. In the paper by Rholl et al. (2011), the resistance to β-lactams, such as ceftazidime, was investigated. Genetic analysis of penA gene, encoding a putative twin arginine translocase (TAT)-secreted β-lactamase, demonstrated that PenA is secreted via the TAT system...