Standard sanitary protocol for embryo washing does not decontaminate equine embryos previously exposed to equine herpes virus-1
Résumé
"European and French sanitary regulations for the inter- and intra-European trade of equine embryos recommend that embryos be washed 10 times in accordance with the standardized procedure described by Seidel (1987). Detection of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) by PCR in an equine embryo immediately after recovery from a donor mare has been reported by Carvalho et al. (2000) and clearly indicates that natural infection of equine embryos with herpes virus can occur." [...]