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Clinical disease and outcome following PRRS infection has significant inherited components.

The abattoir is a useful endpoint to collect data on herd health status and a valuable tool for monitoring the effect of disease control measures.

PCV2 vaccination of the gilts prior to insemination with PCV2 spiked-semen showed a clear decrease of viral load in the gilts as well as a much lower viral excretion that were compatible with foetus protection.

Is the right strategy to get a farm stable, that is, control clinical signs reducing the economic impact of the disease; or should a farm adopt strategies to go “negative”? As for other questions in the epidemiological field, our answer is “it depends”.

Infection of pigs occurs at birth but maternal immunity suppresses viremic infection in growing pigs until immunity wanes around 10 weeks of age, when a hidden infection re-appears.

On the finisher sites, the farmer noticed that the growing pigs in all the farm sheds had become dull and lame.

How to administer drugs in order to optimize the speed of action, the efficiency and the financial cost.

Might be there is a little doubt nowadays on the beneficial clinical and economic effects of PCV2 vaccination in subclinical infections in piglets, but… which is the role that sows play in the whole picture?

One of the challenges when conducting a disease elimination project is to ensure that the pathogen has in deed been eliminated from the herd.

None of the employees on this farm had ever seen TGEv before, but were concerned that is what they were seeing.

This economic model was create to provide a decision support tool for farmers and veterinarians, who can enter their own data to calculate the severity of PMWS on their farm, the cost of disease and what could be the most cost-effective control measure.

Ileitis can take different forms, and it is frequent that a subclinical and a more severe and clinical form coincide.

We allowed the shared lactation between different litters by raising the fences located between the farrowing pens a week before the weaning due date.

In general terms, immunization through vaccination is the easiest and safest way to stabilize a herd.

It is believed that TTSuVs themselves do not directly cause any disease but they could potentiate coinfecting pathogens and participate as triggering factors for diseases like PCVDs and PRDC.

PRRSV by itself may induce mild-to-severe respiratory disease but rarely results in mortality.