Taylorella equigenitalis MCE9

Taylorella equigenitalis (strain MCE9) is a slow-growing microaerophilic, Gram-negative bacterium isolated in 2005 from the urethral fossa of a 4-year-old stallion from a stud farm in the Haute-Savoie (France). It is the causative agent of contagious equine metritis (CEM), a sexually transmitted infection of horses. CEM is characterized in infected mares by abundant mucopurulent vaginal discharge and a variable degree of vaginitis, endometritis, and cervicitis that usually result in temporary infertility or early abortion. Although no clinical signs have been observed in stallions, the infection is most frequently transmitted by carrier stallions, which are the main vector for the infection. (Adapted from PMID: 21278298). (EBI Integr8)