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Two hundred and five isolates of Pasteurella multocida from pigs were phenotypically and genetically characterised by determining their biovar, capsular type, virulence-associated genes and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles.

The susceptibility to an initial challenge and a re-challenge inoculation with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae was analysed in pigs that were treated with antimicrobials of different efficacies following the first exposure to A. pleuropneumoniae.

The aim of this thesis was to explore whether providing piglets with more opportunities to learn from their mother about what, how and where to eat increases food intake before and after weaning and consequently can reduce health and welfare problems after weaning.

Consumption of diets containing seaweed-derived extracts does not diminish faecal shedding of Salmonella in post-weaned piglets.

Fecal to oral transmission of PE is considered to be a major factor in the spread of a Lawsonia infection. A seeder pig model, designed to show the effect of introducing an infected animal into a population of susceptible contact animals, allows characterization of natural transmission of Lawsonia and determination of the effect of an antibiotic intervention.

Experimental immunisation of pigs with the non-virulent OURT88/3 genotype I isolate from Portugal followed by the closely related virulent OURT88/1 genotype I isolate could confer protection against challenge with virulent isolates from Africa.

In the present study, virus replication and pathology were examined in porcine foetuses, inoculated with two PCV1 strains at 55 days of gestation.

This study investigated the infection pattern and lung lesion development in pigs caused by a low and highly virulent Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strain.

The filtering of incoming air to swine facilities located in dense regions of production has been proposed as a means to reduce the risk of airborne transport of PRRSV.

The objective of this report is to summarize the diagnostic investigation in a PFTS-affected farm with emphasis on identifying potential infective etiologies.

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether oral fluid samples could be used to monitor individually-housed adult boars for PRRSV infection.

To determine the prevalence of, this now-called livestock-associated (LA) MRSA among pig herds in the Netherlands and to identify and quantify risk factors, an observational study of 202 pig herds was performed between 2007 and 2008.

Fourteen European laboratories are investigating fruit, vegetable, shellfish and pork food supply chains for specified viral contamination. The VLA role was to investigate HEV contamination in the pork food chain in England.

The objective of this study was to determine Ro of flu in non-immune populations and in populations of pigs vaccinated with homologous or heterologous vaccines and to assess how vaccination may affect transmission.

The objectives of this study were to determine if co-infection of piglets with PRRSV and PCV2 has any affect on PCV2 shedding characteristics and if there are differences in shedding patterns between PCV2 subtypes (PCV2a and PCV2b) in co-infected pigs.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the importance of clonal spread of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae resistant to pleuromutilins (tiamulin, valnemulin) on farms in the Czech Republic.