Enteric Pathogens and Coinfections in Foals with and without Diarrhea

Table 1

Distribution of total foals per farm; sampled foals with (56) and without diarrhea (60) per farms, range of age, and number of dead foals.

Farm	Total foals/farm	Diarrheic foals	Nondiarrheic Foals	Age, days	Dead foals
	N	N	N	(range)	N (%)
1	10	7	3	(12–90)	ND
2	14	7	6	(24–90)	ND
3	10	1	3	(60–90)	ND
4	14	2	0	5 and 60	ND
5	U	1^†	0	9	1
6	U	1	2	(68–90)	ND
7	40	1	1	1 and 25	ND
8	60	7^†	1	(30–90)	1 (7)
9	30	2^†	1^†	(60–90)	2 (7)
10	12	2^††	1^†	(40–90)	3 (25)
11	22	7	9	(19–90)	ND
12	62	9	19	(1–90)	ND
13	10	3	0	(60–90)	ND
14	11	3^†	4	(1–60)	1 (9)
15	20	0	10	(21–90)	ND
Total		56	60		8

N = number of foals; ND = nondetected; N (%) = number of dead foals/farm; U = uninformed; † = one dead foal; †† = two dead foals.