Mycotoxicosis induced in horses by toxic strains of Fusarium sporotrichioides

Kokhtyuk, F. P.; Tsimbal, I. K.; Ivanova, L. G.; Dashkevich, P. D.

When a herd of horses were put out to pasture in a sheltered meadow, some began to show symptoms of toxicosis: depression, rapid pulse and respiration, profuse diarrhoea. Two stallions died, in spite of treatment with saline, glucose, sodium bicarbonate and procaine; six others recovered. The grass in the meadow was covered with a dry, brown mould. Nine different species of fungi were isolated from it, Mucor hiemalis, and especially Fusarium sporotrichioides predominating.