Results of this study should alert clinicians in countries where proliferative enteropthy in horses has not been reported to consider this disease as a possible cause of enteric disease.
Lawsonia intracellularis is an obligate intracellular bacterium that is responsible for proliferative enteropathy, an enteric disease endemic in swine and
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