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Which pathogen causes this lesion?

What lesion is seen?

A sow is found with skin lacerations in the pen. What is the cause of this condition?

Many sows have abscesses in the side of the neck. What is the cause of this lesion?

The whole litter of piglets is trembling and shacking. What is the cause of this condition?

A carcass is split in half and an abscess is found in the spine and burst. What is the cause of this lesion?

A number of finishing pigs have ulcerative pododermatitis on the lateral side of their feet which causes lameness. What is the cause of this lesion?

Some gilts and sows have died suddenly during the last few months with no apparent clinical signs of disease. There is haemoperitoneum and splecnomegalia at post-mortem examination. What is the cause of mortality?

Some finishing pigs are found with swelling of the tails with blood. What is the cause of it?

What does this person do?

Why the faeces must be removed during the pre-farrowing period?

What may have caused these lung abscesses found in pigs slaughtered at an abattoir?

The part of the heart pointed out by the arrow is:

Which germ was isolated from these lungs of a 15-kg piglet?

This serious haemorrhage was caused by:

Which germs were isolated from this lung of a 60-kg pig?

What happened to this spleen of a 100-kg slaughtered pig?

This intestinal haemorrhage was due to:

In these pneumonia lesions, which association of pathogens have we found?

This kind of lesion in the intestine is caused by:

This carcass was condemned because of a pericarditis. In your opinion, what should be seen in a normal carcass after its evisceration?

These lung oedema lesions seen in a 20-kg LW piglet with dyspnea and weight loss make us think of:

This ileitis is caused by:

Which is the cause of these skin lesions?

This vertebral deformation is a:

Which pathogen may be responsible for these lesions?

This scarred lung lesion in a gilt is due to: