summer eczema in exported icelandic horses influence of environmental and genetic factors夏季湿疹出口冰岛马环境和遗传因素的影响.pdf

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Summer eczema in exported Icelandic horses: influence of environmental and genetic factors 1 1 2 Sigríður Björnsdóttir* , Jakobína Sigvaldadóttir , Hans Broström , 3 4 Birgitte Langvad and Ágúst Sigurðsson Address: 1Icelandic Veterinary Services, Dept Holar, 551 Saudarkrokur, Iceland, 2Dept Clin Sci, Sect Medicine and Surgery, Box 7018, SLU, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden, 3Valbyvej 42, 3200 Helsinge, Danmark and 4The Icelandic Farmers Association, Hagatorgi 1, Reykjavík, Iceland Email: Sigríður Björnsdóttir* - systa@holar.is; Jakobína Sigvaldadóttir - bina@dyralaeknastofan.is; Hans Broström - Hans.Brostrom@kv.slu.se; Birgitte Langvad - birgittelangvad@nypost.dk; Ágúst Sigurðsson - agust@lbhi.is * Corresponding author Published: 26 May 2006 Received: 11 April 2006 Accepted: 26 May 2006 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2006, 48:3 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-48-3 This article is available from: /content/48/1/3 © 2006 Björnsdóttir et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A cross sectional study was designed to estimate the prevalence of summer eczema (a chronic, recurrent seasona