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Trial reportCanadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire2018

Does antimicrobial therapy improve outcomes in horses with severe equine asthma and a positive tracheal wash bacterial culture?

Michelle L Husulak, Stephen T Manning, Melissa D Meachem, Hilary J Burgess, Tasha Y Epp, Julia B Montgomery

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Glucocorticoid treatment in horses with asthma: A narrative review.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2021
    Review
  5. Tracheal microbial populations in horses with moderate asthma.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michelle L HusulakDepartment of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Husulak, Manning, Epp, Montgomery) and Department of Veterinary Pathology (Meachem, Burgess), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Stephen T ManningDepartment of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Husulak, Manning, Epp, Montgomery) and Department of Veterinary Pathology (Meachem, Burgess), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Melissa D MeachemDepartment of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Husulak, Manning, Epp, Montgomery) and Department of Veterinary Pathology (Meachem, Burgess), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Hilary J BurgessDepartment of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Husulak, Manning, Epp, Montgomery) and Department of Veterinary Pathology (Meachem, Burgess), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Tasha Y EppDepartment of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Husulak, Manning, Epp, Montgomery) and Department of Veterinary Pathology (Meachem, Burgess), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
Julia B MontgomeryDepartment of Large Animal Clinical Sciences (Husulak, Manning, Epp, Montgomery) and Department of Veterinary Pathology (Meachem, Burgess), Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
University of Saskatchewan · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to observe the outcomes of adding an antimicrobial treatment to a conventional treatment regime in horses with severe equine asthma in a clinical setting. Eleven client-owned horses with a history consistent with severe equine asthma, increased respiratory effort and nostril flaring, ≥ 20% neutrophils on bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and a positive tracheal wash (TW) bacterial culture were treated with environmental management, corticosteroids, and bronchodilators. Six horses were also treated with an antimicrobial (principal group), while the other 5 were administered saline as a placebo (control group). Treatment with antimicrobials significantly improved the post-treatment clinical score of the principal group compared with the pre-treatment score, whereas no significant difference occurred in the control group. The principal group also had significantly less neutrophil myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity post-treatment than pre-treatment, with a median difference of -0.39 units/[protein] in the principal group and a median difference of -0.21 units/[protein] in the controls. There was no difference in MPO activity pre-

Indexed as

AnimalsAsthmaBronchoalveolar LavageBronchoalveolar Lavage FluidFemaleHorse DiseasesHorsesInterleukin-8MaleNeutrophilsPeroxidaseTracheaTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaInterleukin-8PeroxidaseTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID30026642
PMCPMC6040016
OpenAlexW2970811840

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