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Yeast fermentation products showed better performance, especially in the presence of the active enteric disease.

The incorporation of wheat bran or ZnO in the diet improved gut health, but the simultaneous incorporation of both compounds increased E. coli counts, indicating a negative interaction.

Researchers of the CReSA have demonstrated the relevance of the host nucleus during ASFV infection. These discoveries might have important implications when searching for antiviral strategies against ASF that is currently causing real economical problems in many sub-Saharan countries and knocking at the door of the EU.

Elimination of infectious PCV2 from the breeding-herd site, the outcome after repopulation, and the attempt to derive PCV2-negative animals by offsite segregation are summarized.

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of cross-fostering on transfer of maternal Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae-specific humoral and cell-mediated immunity (CMI) from gilts to piglets.

The aim of this study was to compare oral iron supplementation in feed with a standard iron injection and assess the impact on the health and productivity of pigs.

Oral fluid testing is becoming important tool in diagnostic and epidemiological studies of PRRSV, PCV2 and SIV infections. However, sample collection requires understanding of pigs behavior as many of it aspects directly impact the yield of oral fluid. The aim of the present study is to analyse factors affecting the amount of oral fluid collected in standard pig herds in Poland.

This study was conducted to describe the disease ecology of influenza virus in infected swine breeding farms.

The presented prospective study describes how soon Clostridium difficile can be isolated from newborn piglets after normal parturition and how C. difficile spreads within a pig farm.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of disinfection protocols on porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) in 1:61 scale model livestock trailers and determine the infectivity of PCV2 DNA detected using a bioassay.

The results of this study suggest that failure to identify porcine rotaviruses B and C in diarrheic fecal samples is primarily due to use of diagnostic methods of low sensitivity, and not to low prevalence of infection.

The objective of this research was to quantify the likelihood of PRRSV transmission via aerosol as a function of exposure dose. This data is critical to understanding of airborne transmission of PRRSV between pigs, within herds, and between herds.

Combinations of APPs allowed the detection of disease more sensitively than any individual APP and the best three-protein combinations were CRP, apoA1, pigMAP and CRP, apoA1, Hp, respectively, closely followed by the two-protein combinations CRP, pigMAP and apoA1, pigMAP, respectively.

Scientists in Sweden have discovered that the part of bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that frequently carries antibiotic resistance has the capacity to move between several types of bacteria and adapt to widely differing bacterial species.

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of antibiotics and selected probiotics on the morphological properties of the small intestinal mucosa in growing-finishing pigs.

This study evaluated the effect of the probiotics Pediococcus acidilactici and Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii on the intestinal colonization of O149 enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli harbouring the F4 (K88) fimbriae (ETEC F4) and on the expression of ileal cytokines in weaned pigs.