Page 12 of articles about swine-diseases in Abstracts

Increasing weaning age has positive health effects and increase growth performance between weaning and 10 weeks of age.

Nearly all tested animals were seropositive for antibodies against the hepatitis E virus (55/60, 91.7%).

Over the long term, the price margins of pork traders were more severely affected in contrast to that of the other traders’ profits.

The results demonstrated therapeutic effect of valnemulin in pigs with serious SD and did not show therapeutic effect of chelated zinc.

Increasing numbers of L. intracellularis log10 bacteria/g faeces were significantly associated with decreasing average daily gain.

These results suggest that it may be possible to inactivate PEDV in the presence of feces by heating trailers to 160F for 10 minutes or by maintaining them at room temperature (68F) for at least 7 days.

This finding is a first step towards understanding the basis of strain antigenic specificity and opens new possibilities for the developing of molecular serotyping systems, which could assist in the diagnosis and control of the disease.

The main objective of this study was to further investigate this issue and determine if vaccination of older pigs would induce an earlier viremia and seroconversion.

PR can still be considered as an endemic swine disease in the country, affecting about 40-50% of the commercial farms.

The presence of multiple S Typhimurium genotypes in fattening pigs suggests that there were many sources of contamination at this stage.

Novel porcine bocaviruses (PBoV) have been identified in domestic and wild pigs in recent years but are of unknown relevance to date.

This was the first observation in Korea, bringing about the possibility that this virus may be prevalent in porcine farms.

This study demonstrates that type 2 PRRSV is more virulent than type 1 PRRSV in this experimental setting.

The aims of this study were to characterize the epidemiology of recurrent swine influenza virus infections and identify their main determinants.

Marbofloxacin may be useful to control the disease produced by H. parasuis both at individual and population basis although a complete elimination of the bacteria was not possible.

The plant extracts tested reduced diarrhea, and inflammation caused by E. coli infection, which may be beneficial to pig health.